9. With all this, I intervened for my name’s sake that it should not be polluted before the Gentiles, among whom they were, in whose sight I made myself known unto them, in bringing them forth out of the land of Egypt.
10. Therefore I took them out of the land of Egypt and brought them into the wilderness;
11. and I gave them my statutes and declared unto them my rights, by which the man that does them shall live by them.
12. And I also gave them my sabbaths to be a sign between me and them, that they might know that I am the Lord that sanctifies them.
13. But the house of Israel rebelled against me in the wilderness: they did not walk in my statutes, and they despised my rights, by which the man that does them shall live by them; and my sabbaths they greatly polluted; therefore I said, I would pour out my fury upon them in the wilderness to consume them.
14. But I intervened for my name’s sake, that it should not be polluted before the Gentiles, in whose sight I brought them out.
15. Yet I also lifted up my hand unto them in the wilderness, with an oath that I would not bring them into the land which I had given them, flowing with milk and honey, which is the most beautiful of all lands,