16 because they rejected My ordinances, profaned My Sabbaths, and did not follow My statutes. For their hearts went after their idols.
17 But I spared them from destruction and did not bring them to an end in the wilderness.
18 “Then I said to their children in the wilderness: Don’t follow the statutes of your fathers, defile yourselves with their idols, or keep their ordinances.
19 I am Yahweh your God. Follow My statutes, keep My ordinances, and practice them.
20 Keep My Sabbaths holy, and they will be a sign between Me and you, so you may know that I am Yahweh your God.
21 “But the children rebelled against Me. They did not follow My statutes or carefully keep My ordinances — the person who does them will live by them. They also profaned My Sabbaths. So I considered pouring out My wrath on them and exhausting My anger against them in the wilderness.
22 But I withheld My hand and acted because of My name, so that it would not be profaned in the eyes of the nations in whose sight I brought them out.