Ezekiel 20:18-26

18“I said to their children in the wilderness, ‘Do not walk in the statutes of your fathers, do not keep their ordinances, do not defile yourselves with their idols.

19I am Adonai your God. Walk in My statutes, keep My ordinances and do them.

20Keep My Shabbatot holy, so they will be a sign between Me and you, that you may know that I am Adonai your God.’

21“But the children rebelled against Me; they did not walk in My statutes. They did not keep My ordinances to do them, which if a man does, he will live by them; they profaned My Shabbatot. Then I resolved to pour out My fury on them, to expend My anger on them in the wilderness.

22Nevertheless, I withheld My hand. For the sake of My Name I did what would keep it from being profaned in the eyes of the nations in whose sight I had brought them out.

23I also lifted up My hand to them in the wilderness, to scatter them among the nations and disperse them through the countries.

24For they had not obeyed My ordinances, but had rejected My statutes and profaned My Shabbatot. Their eyes went after their fathers’ idols.

25I also gave them statutes that were not good, ordinances by which they could not live.

26I let them become polluted in their own gifts, when they offered up all that opened the womb to pass through the fire, so that I might make them desolate, so that they would know that I am Adonai.