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,