Ezekiel 20:13-14

Lexham English Bible

¹³ “But^[a] in the desert the house of Israel rebelled against me; they did not walk in my statutes,^[b] and they rejected my regulations, which, if a person does them, he will live by them, and they greatly profaned my Sabbaths, and I decided to pour out my rage on them in the desert to destroy them, ¹⁴ and I acted for the sake of my name, that it not be profaned before the eyes of the nations before whom I brought them out.^[c]