Second Generation's Idolatry and Punishment

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"'I said to their children in the desert, "Don't live by the laws of your fathers, observe their rulings or defile yourselves with their idols.

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I am ADONAI your God; live by my laws, observe my rulings, and obey them,

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and keep my shabbats holy; and they will be a sign between me and you, so that you will know that I am ADONAI your God."

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"'But the children too rebelled against me. They did not live by my laws or observe my rulings, to obey them, which, if a person does, he will have life by them; and they profaned my shabbats. Then I said I would pour out my fury on them and spend my anger on them in the desert.

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Nevertheless, I withdrew my hand and allowed concern for my own reputation to keep me from letting it be profaned in the sight of the nations who had seen when I brought them out.

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"'I also raised my hand and swore to them in the desert that I would scatter them among the nations and disperse them through the countries;

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because they hadn't obeyed my rulings but had rejected my laws and profaned my shabbats, and their eyes had turned toward their fathers' idols.

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I also gave them laws which did them no good and rulings by which they did not live;

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and I let them become defiled by their own gifts, in that they offered up their firstborn sons, so that I could fill them with revulsion, so that they would [finally] realize that I am ADONAI.'

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