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Ezekiel 20:16-25

  1. Because they despised my judgments, and walked not in my statutes, but polluted my sabbaths: for their heart went after their idols.

  2. Nevertheless mine eye spared them from destroying them, neither did I make an end of them in the wilderness.

  3. But I said unto their children in the wilderness, Walk ye not in the statutes of your fathers, neither observe their judgments, nor defile yourselves with their idols:

  4. I am the LORD your God; walk in my statutes, and keep my judgments, and do them;

  5. And hallow my sabbaths; and they shall be a sign between me and you, that ye may know that I am the LORD your God.

  6. Notwithstanding the children rebelled against me: they walked not in my statutes, neither kept my judgments to do them, which if a man do, he shall even live in them; they polluted my sabbaths: then I said, I would pour out my fury upon them, to accomplish my anger against them in the wilderness.

  7. Nevertheless I withdrew mine hand, and wrought for my name's sake, that it should not be polluted in the sight of the heathen, in whose sight I brought them forth.

  8. I lifted up mine hand unto them also in the wilderness, that I would scatter them among the heathen, and disperse them through the countries;

  9. Because they had not executed my judgments, but had despised my statutes, and had polluted my sabbaths, and their eyes were after their fathers' idols.

  10. Wherefore I gave them also statutes that were not good, and judgments whereby they should not live;