Ezekiel 20:18-26

18“I said to their 12children in the wilderness, ‘3Do not walk in the statutes of your fathers or keep their ordinances or defile yourselves with their idols. 194I am the Lord your God; 5walk in My statutes and keep My ordinances and 6observe them. 207Sanctify My sabbaths; and they shall be a sign between Me and you, that you may know that I am the Lord your God.’ 21But the 8children rebelled against Me; they did not walk in My statutes, nor were they careful to observe My ordinances, by which, if a man observes them, he will live; they profaned My sabbaths. So I 9resolved to pour out My wrath on them, to accomplish My anger against them in the wilderness. 22But I 10withdrew My hand and acted 11for the sake of My name, that it should not be profaned in the sight of the nations in whose sight I had brought them out. 23Also I swore to them in the wilderness that I would 12scatter them among the nations and disperse them among the lands, 24because they had not observed My ordinances, but had rejected My statutes and had profaned My sabbaths, and 13their eyes were 14on the idols of their fathers. 25I also gave them statutes that were 15not good and ordinances by which they could not live; 26and I pronounced them 16unclean because of their gifts, in that they 17caused all 18their firstborn to pass through the fire so that I might make them desolate, in order that they might 19know that I am the Lord.”’