Ezekiel 20:8-12
Ezekiel 20:8
But they rebelled against Me and were not willing to listen to Me; they did not throw away, each of them, the detestable things of their eyes, nor did they abandon the idols of Egypt. “Then I resolved to pour out My wrath on them, to use up My anger against them in the midst of the land of Egypt.
Ezekiel 20:9
But I acted for the sake of My name, that it would not be defiled in the sight of the nations among whom they lived, in whose sight I made Myself known to them by bringing them out of the land of Egypt.
Ezekiel 20:10
So I took them out of the land of Egypt and brought them into the wilderness.
Ezekiel 20:11
I gave them My statutes and informed them of My ordinances, which, if a person follows them, then he will live by them.
Ezekiel 20:12
Also I gave them My Sabbaths to be a sign between Me and them, so that they might know that I am the Lord who sanctifies them.