14 But I intervened for my name’s sake, that it should not be polluted before the Gentiles, in whose sight I brought them out.
15 Yet I also lifted up my hand unto them in the wilderness, with an oath that I would not bring them into the land which I had given them, flowing with milk and honey, which is the most beautiful of all lands,
16 because they despised my rights and did not walk in my statutes but polluted my Sabbaths, for their heart went after their idols.
17 With all this, my eye spared them from destroying them, neither did I make an end of them in the wilderness.
18 But I said unto their sons in the wilderness: Do not walk in the statutes of your fathers, neither keep their laws, nor defile yourselves with their idols:
19 I am the Lord your God; walk in my statutes, and keep my rights, and do them;
20 and hallow my sabbaths; and they shall be a sign between me and you, that ye may know that I am the Lord your God.