Ezekiel 20:4-6

Holman Christian Standard Bible

⁴ “Will you pass judgment against them, will you pass judgment, son of man? Explain the detestable practices of their fathers to them.^{(A) 5} Say to them: This is what the Lord God says: On the day I chose Israel, I swore an oath^[a](B) to the descendants of Jacob’s house and made Myself known to them in the land of Egypt. I swore to them, saying: I am Yahweh your God.^{(C) 6} On that day I swore^[b] to them that I would bring them out^(D) of the land of Egypt into a land I had searched out for them, a land flowing with milk and honey,^(E) the most beautiful of all lands.^(F)