Ezekiel 20:18-26

18“Instead, 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 6follow them. 207Sanctify My Sabbaths; and they shall be a sign between Me and you, so 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 9follow My ordinances which, if 10a person 11follows them, then he will live by them; they profaned My Sabbaths. So I 12resolved to pour out My wrath on them, to 13use up My anger against them in the wilderness. 22But I 14withdrew My hand and acted 15for the sake of My name, so that it would not be defiled 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 16scatter them among the nations and disperse them among the lands, 24because they had not 17complied with My ordinances, but had rejected My statutes and had profaned My Sabbaths, and 18their eyes were 19on the idols of their fathers. 25I also gave them statutes that were 20not good, and ordinances by which they could not live; 26and I pronounced them 21unclean because of their gifts, in that they 22made all 23their firstborn pass through the fire so that I might make them desolate, in order that they might 24know that I am the Lord.”’