16. because they despised My judgments and did not walk in My statutes, but polluted My Sabbaths. For their hearts went after their idols.
17. Nevertheless My eye spared them from destroying them, nor did I make an end of them in the wilderness.
18. But I said to their children in the wilderness: Do not walk in the statutes of your fathers, neither observe their judgments, nor defile yourselves with their idols.