Ezekiel 20:13-14

13 aBut the house of Israel rebelled against me in the wilderness. bThey did not walk in my statutes but rejected my rules, by which, if a person does them, he shall live; cand my Sabbaths they greatly profaned.

d“Then I said I would pour out my wrath upon them in the wilderness, to make a full end of them.
14But I acted for the sake of my name, that it should not be profaned in the sight of the nations, ein whose sight I had brought them out.
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