Ezekiel 20:12-20

12Also I gave them My Sabbaths to be a 1sign between Me and them, so 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, 3which, if 4a person 5follows them, then he will live by them; and they greatly profaned My 6Sabbaths. Then I 7resolved to 8pour 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 9I 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 10heart continually followed their idols. 17Yet My eye spared them rather than destroying them, and I did not bring about their 11annihilation in the wilderness.

18“Instead, I said to their 1213children in the wilderness, ‘14Do not walk in the statutes of your fathers or keep their ordinances or defile yourselves with their idols. 1915I am the Lord your God; 16walk in My statutes and keep My ordinances and 17follow them. 2018Sanctify My Sabbaths; and they shall be a sign between Me and you, so that you may know that I am the Lord your God.’