18In the wilderness I said to their children: ‘Do not walk in the statutes of your fathers or keep their ordinances or defile yourselves with their idols.
19I am the LORD your God; walk in My statutes, keep My ordinances, and practice them.
20Keep My Sabbaths holy, that they may be a sign between us, so that you may know that I am the LORD your God.’
21But the children rebelled against Me. They did not walk in My statutes or carefully observe My ordinances —though the man who does these things will live by them — and they profaned My Sabbaths. So I resolved to pour out My wrath upon them and vent My anger against them in the wilderness.
— Ezekiel 20:18-21