Ezekiel 20:12-20

12Also I gave them My sabbaths to be a 1sign between Me and them, that they might know that I am the Lord who sanctifies them. 13But the house of Israel 2rebelled against Me in the wilderness. They did not walk in My statutes and they rejected My ordinances, 3by which, if a man 4observes them, he will live; and My 5sabbaths they greatly profaned. Then I 6resolved to 7pour out My wrath on them in the wilderness, to annihilate them. 14But I acted for the sake of My name, that it should not be profaned in the sight of the nations, before whose sight I had brought them out. 15Also 8I swore to them in the wilderness that I would not bring them into the land which I had given them, flowing with milk and honey, which is the glory of all lands, 16because they rejected My ordinances, and as for My statutes, they did not walk in them; they even profaned My sabbaths, for their 9heart continually went after their idols. 17Yet My eye spared them rather than destroying them, and I did not cause their 10annihilation in the wilderness.

18“I said to their 1112children in the wilderness, ‘13Do not walk in the statutes of your fathers or keep their ordinances or defile yourselves with their idols. 1914I am the Lord your God; 15walk in My statutes and keep My ordinances and 16observe them. 2017Sanctify My sabbaths; and they shall be a sign between Me and you, that you may know that I am the Lord your God.’