Ezekiel 20:16-18

English Standard Version

¹⁶ because they rejected my rules and did not walk in my statutes, and profaned my Sabbaths; ^(A)for their heart went after their idols. ¹⁷ Nevertheless, ^(B)my eye spared them, and I did not destroy them or ^(C)make a full end of them in the wilderness.

¹⁸ “And I said to ^(D)their children in the wilderness, ‘Do not walk ^(E)in the statutes of your fathers, nor keep their rules, ^(F)nor defile yourselves with their idols.