17. Yet my eye was lenient concerning them, so that I did not utterly destroy them, nor did I consume them in the desert.
18. Then I said to their sons in the wilderness: 'Do not choose to advance by the precepts of your fathers, nor should you observe their judgments. And do not be defiled by their idols.
19. I am the Lord your God. Walk in my precepts, and observe my judgments, and accomplish them.