8. But they provoked me, and would not hearken to me: they did not every man cast away the abominations of his eyes, neither did they forsake the idols of Egypt: and I said I would pour out my indignation upon them, and accomplish my wrath against them in the midst of the land of Egypt.
9. But I did otherwise for my name's sake, that it might not be violated before the nations, in the midst of whom they were, and among whom I made myself known to them, to bring them out of the land of Egypt.
10. Therefore I brought them out from the land of Egypt, and brought them into the desert.
11. And I gave them my statutes, and I shewed them my judgments, which if a man do, he shall live in them.
12. Moreover I gave them also my sabbaths, to be a sign between me and them: and that they might know that I am the Lord that sanctify them.
13. But the house of Israel provoked me in the desert: they walked not in my statutes, and they cast away my judgments, which if a man do he shall live in them: and they grievously violated my sabbaths. I said therefore that I would pour out my indignation upon them in the desert, and would consume them.
14. But I spared them for the sake of my name, lest it should be profaned before the nations, from which I brought them out, in their sight.
15. So I lifted up my hand over them in the desert, not to bring them into the land which I had given them flowing with milk and honey, the best of all lands.
16. Because they cast off my judgments, and walked not in my statutes, and violated my sabbaths: for their heart went after idols.
17. Yet my eye spared them, so that I destroyed them not: neither did I consume them in the desert.
18. And I said to their children in the wilderness: Walk not in the statutes of your fathers, and observe not their judgments, nor be ye defiled with their idols:
19. I am the Lord your God: walk ye in my statutes, and observe my judgments, and do them.
20. And sanctify my sabbaths, that they may be a sign between me and you: and that you may know that I am the Lord your God.