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"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.
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I am the Lord your God. Follow My statutes, keep My ordinances, and practice them.
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Keep My Sabbaths holy, and they will be a sign between Me and you, so you may know that I am the Lord your God.
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"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.
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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.