12. I also gave them My Shabbatot, as a sign between Me and them, so that they would know that I am Adonai who made them holy.
13. “But the house of Israel rebelled against Me in the wilderness. They did not walk in My statutes. They rejected My judgments, which if a man does, he will live by them. They greatly profaned My Shabbatot. Then I resolved to pour out My fury on them in the wilderness to consume them.
14. But for the sake of My Name I did what would keep it from being profaned in the eyes of the nations in whose sight I had brought them out.
15. Yet I also lifted 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 splendor of all lands.