Ezekiel 20:5-7

Christian Standard Bible

⁵ Say to them, ‘This is what the Lord God says: On the day I chose Israel, I swore an oath^[a](A) to the descendants of Jacob’s house and made myself known to them in the land of Egypt. I swore to them, saying, “I am the Lord your God.”^{(B) 6} On that day I swore^[b] to them that I would bring them out^(C) of the land of Egypt into a land I had searched out for them, a land flowing with milk and honey,^(D) the most beautiful of all lands.^{(E) 7} I also said to them, “Throw away, each of you, the abhorrent things that you prize,^[c] and do not defile yourselves with the idols of Egypt.^(F) I am the Lord your God.”^(G)