rsv Ezekiel:20:13-18
rsv@Ezekiel:20:13 @ But the house of Israel rebelled against me in the wilderness; they did not walk in my statutes but rejected my ordinances, by whose observance man shall live; and my sabbaths they greatly profaned. "Then I thought I would pour out my wrath upon them in the wilderness, to make a full end of them.
rsv@Ezekiel:20:14 @ But I acted for the sake of my name, that it should not be profaned in the sight of the nations, in whose sight I had brought them out.
rsv@Ezekiel:20:15 @ Moreover I swore to them in the wilderness that I would not bring them into the land which I had given them, a land flowing with milk and honey, the most glorious of all lands,
rsv@Ezekiel:20:16 @ because they rejected my ordinances and did not walk in my statutes, and profaned my sabbaths; for their heart went after their idols.
rsv@Ezekiel:20:17 @ Nevertheless my eye spared them, and I did not destroy them or make a full end of them in the wilderness.
rsv@Ezekiel:20:18 @ "And I said to their children in the wilderness, Do not walk in the statutes of your fathers, nor observe their ordinances, nor defile yourselves with their idols.