25 Then they will have to say, ‘It was because they abandoned the covenant+ of Jehovah the God of their forefathers, which he concluded with them when he brought them out of the land of Egypt.+

20 Finally Jehovah’s anger blazed+ against Israel and he said: “For the reason that this nation have overstepped my covenant+ that I commanded their forefathers and have not listened to my voice,+

9 There was nothing in the Ark but the two stone tablets*+ which Moses had deposited+ there in Hoʹreb, when Jehovah had covenanted*+ with the sons of Israel while they were coming out from the land of Egypt.+

15 and they continued rejecting his regulations and his covenant+ that he had concluded with their forefathers and his reminders*+ with which he had warned them, and they went following vain idols+ and became vain+ themselves, even in imitation of the nations that were all around them, concerning whom Jehovah had commanded them not to do like them;+

9 not according to the covenant+ that I made with their forefathers in [the] day of my taking hold of their hand to bring them forth out of the land of Egypt,+ because they did not continue in my covenant,+ so that I stopped caring for them,’ says Jehovah.”*+