16. because they rejected my ordinances, and didn’t walk in my statutes, and profaned my Sabbaths; for their heart went after their idols.
17. Nevertheless my eye spared them, and I didn’t destroy them, neither did I 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, neither observe their ordinances, nor defile yourselves with their idols.
19. I am Yahweh your God. Walk in my statutes, and keep my ordinances, and do them;
20. and make my Sabbaths holy; and they shall be a sign between me and you, that you may know that I am Yahweh your God. ’
21. “‘“But the children rebelled against me. They didn’t walk in my statutes, neither kept my ordinances to do them, which if a man do, 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 among the nations, and disperse them through the countries;