10. Therefore I led them out of Egypt and brought them into the wilderness.
11. I gave them my decrees and made known to them my laws, by which the person who obeys them will live.
12. Also I gave them my Sabbaths as a sign between us, so they would know that I the Lord made them holy.
13. ‘ “Yet the people of Israel rebelled against me in the wilderness. They did not follow my decrees but rejected my laws – by which the person who obeys them will live – and they utterly desecrated my Sabbaths. So I said I would pour out my wrath on them and destroy them in the wilderness.
14. But for the sake of my name I did what would keep it from being profaned in the eyes of the nations in whose sight I had brought them out.
15. Also with uplifted hand I swore to them in the wilderness that I would not bring them into the land I had given them – a land flowing with milk and honey, the most beautiful of all lands –
16. because they rejected my laws and did not follow my decrees and desecrated my Sabbaths. For their hearts were devoted to their idols.