Ezekiel 20:21-22

21 aBut the children brebelled against me. cThey did not walk in my statutes and were not careful to obey my rules, by which, if a person does them, he shall live; they profaned my Sabbaths.

d“Then I said I would pour out my wrath upon them and spend my anger against them in the wilderness.
22 eBut I withheld my hand fand acted for the sake of my name, gthat it should not be profaned in the sight of the nations, in whose sight I had brought them out.
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