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.
19. I am the Lord your God: Walk in My statutes, and keep My judgments, and do them.
20. And hallow My Sabbaths. And they shall be a sign between Me and you that you may know that I am the Lord your God.
21. Yet the children rebelled against Me. They did not walk in My statutes, nor did they keep My judgments to do them, which if a man does them, he shall live. They polluted My Sabbaths. Then I said I would pour out My fury upon them to accomplish My anger against them in the wilderness.
22. Nevertheless I withdrew My hand and acted for My name’s sake, that it should not be polluted in the sight of the nations in whose sight I brought them out.
23. I lifted up My hand to them also in the wilderness, that I would scatter them among the nations and disperse them through the countries,
24. because they had not executed My judgments, but had despised My statutes and had polluted My Sabbaths, and their eyes were after their fathers’ idols.
25. Therefore I gave them also statutes that were not good and judgments by which they could not live.
26. And I pronounced them unclean because of their gifts, in that they caused to pass through the fire all who opened the womb, that I might make them desolate in order that they might know that I am the Lord.