16. because they despised My judgments and did not walk in My statutes, but profaned My Sabbaths; for their heart went after their idols.
17. Nevertheless My eye spared them from destruction. I did not make an end of them in the wilderness.
18. “But I said to their children in the wilderness, ‘Do not walk in the statutes of your fathers, nor observe their judgments, nor defile yourselves with their idols.
19. I am the Lord your God: Walk in My statutes, keep My judgments, and do them;
20. hallow My Sabbaths, and they will be a sign between Me and you, that you may know that I am the Lord your God.’
21. “Notwithstanding, the children rebelled against Me; they did not walk in My statutes, and were not careful to observe My judgments, ‘which, if a man does, he shall live by them’; but they profaned My Sabbaths. Then I said I would pour out My fury on them and fulfill My anger against them in the wilderness.