Ezekiel 20:16-18

Modern English Version

¹⁶ because they despised My judgments and did not walk in My statutes, but polluted My Sabbaths. For their hearts went after their idols. ¹⁷ Nevertheless My eye spared them from destroying them, nor did I make an end of them in the wilderness. ¹⁸ But I said to their children in the wilderness: Do not walk in the statutes of your fathers, neither observe their judgments, nor defile yourselves with their idols.