13. But the house of Israel rebelled against Me in the wilderness. They did not walk in My statutes, and they despised My judgments, which if a man does them, he shall live. And My Sabbaths they greatly polluted. Then I said I would pour out My fury upon them in the wilderness to consume them.
14. But I acted for My name’s sake, that it should not be polluted before the nations in whose sight I brought them out.
15. Also I lifted up 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 glory of all lands,
16. because they despised My judgments and did not walk in My statutes, but polluted My Sabbaths. For their hearts went after their idols.
17. Nevertheless My eye spared them from destroying them, nor did I 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, neither observe their judgments, nor defile yourselves with their idols.