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because they rejected mine ordinances, and walked not in my commandments, but profaned my sabbaths, and went after the imaginations of their hearts.
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But I wrought that my name should not be at all profaned before the Gentiles, before whose eyes I brought them out.
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But I lifted up my hand against them in the wilderness once for all, that I would not bring them into the land which I gave them, a land flowing with milk and honey, it is sweeter than all lands:
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because they rejected mine ordinances, and walked not in my commandments, but profaned my sabbaths, and went after the imaginations of their hearts.
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Yet mine eyes spared them, so as to destroy them utterly, and I did not make an end of them in the wilderness.
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And I said to their children in the wilderness, Walk not ye in the customs of your fathers, and keep not their ordinances, and have no fellowship with their practices, nor defile yourselves .
The Brenton translation of the Septuagint is in the public domain.