16 And the people answered and said, God-Elōhīm (The Living Word) [The Many Powered] forbid that we should forsake the LORD-Yehōvah (Messiah Pre-Incarnate), to serve other gods;

17 For the LORD-Yehōvah (Messiah Pre-Incarnate) our God-Elōhīm (The Living Word) [The Many Powered], he [it is] that brought us up and our fathers out of the land of Mitzrayim [Egypt - The Narrow Place], from the house of bondage, and which did those great signs in our sight, and preserved us in all the way wherein we went, and among all the people through whom we passed: