Ezekiel 20:16-20
Ezekiel 20:16
because they rejected My ordinances, and as for My statutes, they did not walk in them; they also profaned My Sabbaths, because their heart continually followed their idols.
Ezekiel 20:17
Yet My eye spared them rather than destroying them, and I did not bring about their annihilation in the wilderness.
Ezekiel 20:18
“Instead, I said to their children in the wilderness, ‘Do not walk in the statutes of your fathers or keep their ordinances or defile yourselves with their idols.
Ezekiel 20:19
I am the Lord your God; walk in My statutes and keep My ordinances and follow them.
Ezekiel 20:20
Sanctify My Sabbaths; and they shall be a sign between Me and you, so that you may know that I am the Lord your God.’