Ezekiel 20:20-22

New International Version - UK

²⁰ Keep my Sabbaths holy, that they may be a sign between us. Then you will know that I am the Lord your God.’

²¹ ‘“But the children rebelled against me: they did not follow my decrees, they were not careful to keep my laws, of which I said, ‘The person who obeys them will live by them,’ and they desecrated my Sabbaths. So I said I would pour out my wrath on them and spend my anger against them in the wilderness. ²² But I withheld my hand, and for the sake of my name I did what would keep it from being profaned in the eyes of the nations in whose sight I had brought them out.