12. Moreover also I gave them my sabbaths, to be a sign between me and them, that they might know that I am the LORD that sanctify them.
13. But the house of Israel rebelled against me in the wilderness: they walked not in my statutes, and they despised my judgments, which if a man doeth, he shall even live in them; and my sabbaths they greatly profaned: then I said, I would pour out my fury upon them in the wilderness, to consume them.
14. But I wrought for my name's sake, that it should not be profaned before the heathen, in whose sight I brought them out.
15. Yet also I lifted up my hand to them in the wilderness, that I would not bring them into the land which I had given them, flowing with milk and honey, which is the glory of all lands;
16. Because they despised my judgments, and walked not in my statutes, but profaned my sabbaths: for their heart went after their idols.
17. Nevertheless my eye spared them from destroying them, neither did I make an end of them in the wilderness.