Ezekiel 20:12-20

12Moreover I also gave them My Sabbaths, to be a sign between them and Me, that they might know that I am the Lord who sanctifies them.

13Yet the house of Israel rebelled against Me in the wilderness; they did not walk in My statutes; they despised My judgments, ‘which, if a man does, he shall live by them’; and they greatly defiled My Sabbaths. Then I said I would pour out My fury on them in the wilderness, to consume them.

14But I acted for My name’s sake, that it should not be profaned before the Gentiles, in whose sight I had brought them out.

15So I also raised My hand in an oath to them in the wilderness, that I would not bring them into the land which I had given them, ‘flowing with milk and honey,’ the glory of all lands,

16because they despised My judgments and did not walk in My statutes, but profaned My Sabbaths; for their heart went after their idols.

17Nevertheless My eye spared them from destruction. I did not make an end of them in the wilderness.

18“But I said to their children in the wilderness, ‘Do not walk in the statutes of your fathers, nor observe their judgments, nor defile yourselves with their idols.

19I am the Lord your God: Walk in My statutes, keep My judgments, and do them;

20hallow My Sabbaths, and they will be a sign between Me and you, that you may know that I am the Lord your God.’