Ezekiel 20:5-7

Evangelical Heritage Version

⁵ You are to tell them the following.

This is what the Lord God says. On the day when I chose Israel, when I swore with an uplifted hand to the descendants^[a] of the house of Jacob, when I made myself known to them in the land of Egypt, then I lifted up my hand to them in an oath. I said, “I am the Lord, your God.” ⁶ On that day I swore to them with an uplifted hand to bring them out of the land of Egypt to a land that I had searched out for them, a land flowing with milk and honey. It was the most glorious of all the lands. ⁷ I said to them, “Each man must throw away the loathsome things he sets his eyes on. You must not defile yourselves with the filthy idols^[b] of Egypt. I am the Lord, your God.”