Leviticus 26:44
43 The land will be abandoned by them in order that it may make up for its Sabbaths while it is made desolate without them, and they will make up for their iniquity because they have rejected my regulations and have abhorred my statutes. 44 In spite of this, however, when they are in the land of their enemies, I will not reject them and abhor them to make a complete end of them, to break my covenant with them, for I am the Lord their God. 45 I will remember for them the covenant with their ancestors whom I brought out from the land of Egypt in the sight of the nations to be their God. I am the Lord.’”
Jubilees 1:6
4 Moses remained on the mountain for 40 days and 40 nights while the Lord showed him what had happened beforehand as well as what was to come. He related to him the divisions of all the times — both of the law and of the testimony. 5 He said to him: “Pay attention to all the words which I tell you on this mountain. Write them in a book so that their offspring may see that I have not abandoned them because of all the evil they have done in straying from the covenant between me and you which I am making today on Mt. Sinai for their offspring. 6 So it will be that when all of these things befall them they will recognize that I have been more faithful than they in all their judgments and in all their actions. They will recognize that I have indeed been with them. 7 “Now you write this entire message which I am telling you today, because I know their defiance and their stubbornness even before I bring them into the land which I promised by oath to Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob: 'To your posterity I will give the land which flows with milk and honey'. When they eat and are full,
Notes and References
"... Perhaps this is meant in the sense of “despite all the evil they have done” in straying from the covenant ... If so, Jubilees’ author may be further evoking Leviticus 26:44 to imply that, despite all that Israel has done to violate its covenant, God has not dissolved this great and eternal bond. This is, in fact, one of the author’s main themes in writing Jubilees. He knew, of course, that long after the time of Moses, the Babylonians had conquered Judah, and that, thereafter, the Jews had remained a subject people until his own day. The point of Jubilees is that none of this came about because God had abandoned Israel, but because of the people’s own contrariness. At the same, he asserts, even in their sinfulness, God has not abandoned them ..."
Kugel, James L. A Walk through Jubilees: Studies in the Book of Jubilees and the World of Its Creation (p. 21) Brill, 2012