15. And so I lifted up my hand over them in the desert, so as not to lead them into the land that I had given to them, flowing with milk and honey, the foremost of all lands.
16. For they cast aside my judgments, and they did not walk in my precepts, and they violated my Sabbaths. For their heart went after idols.
17. Yet my eye was lenient concerning them, so that I did not utterly destroy them, nor did I consume them in the desert.
18. Then I said to their sons in the wilderness: 'Do not choose to advance by the precepts of your fathers, nor should you observe their judgments. And do not be defiled by their idols.
19. I am the Lord your God. Walk in my precepts, and observe my judgments, and accomplish them.