Ezekiel 20:20-22

Lexham English Bible

²⁰ And treat my Sabbaths as holy, and they will be a sign between me and between you that you may know^[a] that I, Yahweh, am your God.’ ²¹ But the children rebelled against me; they did not walk in my statutes,^[b] and they did not observe my regulations,^[c] which if a person does them, then he will live by them. My Sabbaths they desecrated, and I decided to pour out my rage on them, to finish my anger against them in the desert. ²² But I withheld my hand, and I acted for the sake of my name not to be profaned before the eyes of the nations before whom I had brought them out before their eyes.