¹⁷ Nevertheless since Mine eye spared them from destroying them, I did not make an end of them in the midbar.

¹⁸ But I said unto their banim in the midbar, Walk ye not in the chukkot of avoteichem, neither be shomer over their mishpatim, nor make yourselves tameh with their gillulim (idols).

¹⁹ I am Hashem Eloheichem; walk in My chukkot, and be shomer over My mishpatim, and do them;