Ezekiel 20:7-9
Christian Standard Bible
7 I also said to them, “Throw away, each of you, the abhorrent things that you prize,[a] and do not defile yourselves with the idols of Egypt.(A) I am the Lord your God.”(B)
8 “‘But they rebelled against me and were unwilling to listen to me. None of them threw away the abhorrent things that they prized,[b] and they did not abandon the idols of Egypt. So I considered pouring out my wrath on them,(C) exhausting my anger against them within the land of Egypt. 9 But I acted for the sake of my name,(D) so that it would not be profaned in the eyes of the nations they were living among, in whose sight I had made myself known to Israel by bringing them out of Egypt.
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