Ezekiel 20:20-22

Good News Translation

²⁰ Make the Sabbath a holy day, so that it will be a sign of the covenant we made, and will remind you that I am the Lord your God.

²¹ “But that generation also defied me. They broke my laws and did not keep my commands, which bring life to anyone who obeys them. They profaned the Sabbath. I was ready to let them feel the force of my anger there in the desert and to kill them all. ²² But I did not, since that would have brought dishonor to my name among the nations which had seen me bring Israel out of Egypt.