Ezekiel 20:12-14

New International Version - UK

¹² Also I gave them my Sabbaths as a sign between us, so they would know that I the Lord made them holy.

¹³ ‘“Yet the people of Israel rebelled against me in the wilderness. They did not follow my decrees but rejected my laws – by which the person who obeys them will live – and they utterly desecrated my Sabbaths. So I said I would pour out my wrath on them and destroy them in the wilderness. ¹⁴ But for the sake of my name I did what would keep it from being profaned in the eyes of the nations in whose sight I had brought them out.