Ezekiel 20:10-17

10So I took them out of the land of Egypt and brought them into the 1wilderness. 11I gave them My 2statutes and informed them of My ordinances, 3which, if 4a person 5follows them, then he will live by them. 12Also I gave them My Sabbaths to be a 6sign between Me and them, so that they might know that I am the Lord who sanctifies them. 13But the house of Israel 7rebelled against Me in the wilderness. They did not walk in My statutes and they rejected My ordinances, 8which, if 9a person 10follows them, then he will live by them; and they greatly profaned My 11Sabbaths. Then I 12resolved to 13pour out My wrath on them in the wilderness, to annihilate them. 14But I acted for the sake of My name, so that it would not be defiled before the eyes of the nations, before whose eyes I had brought them out. 15Also 14I 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 the lands, 16because they rejected My ordinances, and as for My statutes, they did not walk in them; they also profaned My Sabbaths, because their 15heart continually followed their idols. 17Yet My eye spared them rather than destroying them, and I did not bring about their 16annihilation in the wilderness.