17. Nevertheless my eye spared them, and I didn’t destroy them. I didn’t make a full end of them in the wilderness.
18. I said to their children in the wilderness, ‘Don’t walk in the statutes of your fathers. Don’t observe their ordinances or defile yourselves with their idols.
19. I am the Lord your God. Walk in my statutes, keep my ordinances, and do them.
20. Make my Sabbaths holy. They shall be a sign between me and you, that you may know that I am the Lord your God.’
21. “‘“But the children rebelled against me. They didn’t walk in my statutes, and didn’t keep my ordinances to do them, which if a man does, he shall live in them. They profaned my Sabbaths. Then I said I would pour out my wrath on them, to accomplish my anger against them in the wilderness.
22. Nevertheless I withdrew my hand, and worked for my name’s sake, that it should not be profaned in the sight of the nations, in whose sight I brought them out.
23. Moreover I swore to them in the wilderness, that I would scatter them amongst the nations, and disperse them through the countries;
24. because they had not executed my ordinances, but had rejected my statutes, and had profaned my Sabbaths, and their eyes were after their fathers’ idols.