⁸But they rebelled against me, and they were not willing to listen to me; each one did not throw away^m the detestable things of their eyes; and they did not abandonⁿ the idols of Egypt, and I decided to pour out my rage on them, to fully vent my anger against them in the midst of the land of Egypt.

⁹“But^o I acted for the sake of my name to keep it from being profaned^p before the eyes of the nations among whom they lived,^q where I made known to them before their eyes, to bring them out from the land of Egypt. ¹⁰And I brought them out from the land of Egypt, and I brought them to the desert, ¹¹and I gave my statutes to them, and my regulations I made known to them, which, if a person does them, then he will live by them. ¹²And also my Sabbaths I gave to them to be a sign between me and between them so they would know^r that I, Yahweh, am the one sanctifying them.

¹³“But^s in the desert the house of Israel rebelled against me; they did not walk in my statutes,^t and they rejected my regulations, which, if a person does them, he will live by them, and they greatly profaned my Sabbaths, and I decided to pour out my rage on them in the desert to destroy them, ¹⁴and I acted for the sake of my name, that it not be profaned before the eyes of the nations before whom I brought them out.^u ¹⁵And also I myself swore^v to them in the desert not to bring them into the land that I had given to them, flowing with milk and honey—it is the most beautiful of all of the lands— ¹⁶because they despised my judgments, and they did not walk in my statutes,^w and my Sabbaths they profaned, for their heart was going after their idols. ¹⁷But my eye took pity on them by not destroying them, and I did not completely destroy them^x in the desert.

¹⁸“And I said to their children in the desert, ‘You must not go in the statutes of your parents;^y you must not keep their regulations, and you must not make yourself unclean with their idols. ¹⁹I, Yahweh, am your God, so go in my statutes and keep my regulations and do them. ²⁰And treat my Sabbaths as holy, and they will be a sign between me and between you that you may know^z that I, Yahweh, am your God.’ ²¹But the children rebelled against me; they did not walk in my statutes,^a and they did not observe my regulations,^b which if a person does them, then he will live by them. My Sabbaths they desecrated, and I decided to pour out my rage on them, to finish my anger against them in the desert. ²²But I withheld my hand, and I acted for the sake of my name not to be profaned before the eyes of the nations before whom I had brought them out before their eyes. ²³What is more, I swore^c to them in the desert to scatter them among the nations and to disperse them in the lands, ²⁴because they did not do my regulations, and my statutes they despised, and my Sabbaths they profaned, and their eyes were after the idols of their ancestors.^d

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Footnotes

mLiterally “not they threw away”
nLiterally “not they abandoned”
oOr “And”
pLiterally “not to be profaned before the eyes of”
qLiterally “which they were in their midst”
rLiterally “know”
sOr “And”
tLiterally “in my statutes not they went”
uLiterally “which I brought out them before their eyes”
vLiterally “I, I raised my hand”
wLiterally “and my statutes not they went in them”
xLiterally “and not I make them complete destruction”
yOr “fathers”
zLiterally “know”
aLiterally “in statutes my not they went”
bLiterally “my regulations not they kept to do them”
cLiterally “I will raise my hand”
dOr “fathers”