Provocation of the people in the wilderness. They rejected the statutes of Jehovah and "polluted," better: profaned, his sabbaths, i.e. failed to dedicate and keep them to Jehovah. The profanation is to be taken in a wider sense than the special instances of neglect, Exodus 16:27; Numbers 15:32. This profanation of the Sabbath was oblivion of the covenant, cf. Amos 8:5.

pour out my fury Cf. Exodus 32:10 seq.; Numbers 14:11-12; Numbers 14:29.

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