Ezekiel

¹²I also gave them my Sabbaths as a reminder of our relationship, so that they would know that I, the Lord, sanctify them. ¹³But the house of Israel rebelled against me in the wilderness; they did not follow my statutes and they rejected my regulations (the one who obeys them will live by them), and they utterly desecrated my Sabbaths. So I decided to pour out my rage on them in the wilderness and destroy them. ¹⁴I acted for the sake of my reputation, so that I would not be profaned before the nations in whose sight I had brought them out. ¹⁵I also swore to them in the wilderness that I would not bring them to the land I had given them – a land flowing with milk and honey, the most beautiful of all lands. ¹⁶I did this because they rejected my regulations, did not follow my statutes, and desecrated my Sabbaths; for their hearts followed their idols. ¹⁷Yet I had pity on them and did not destroy them, so I did not make an end of them in the wilderness. ¹⁸“‘But I said to their children in the wilderness, “Do not follow the practices of your fathers; do not observe their regulations, nor defile yourselves with their idols.