Ezekiel 20:16-18

Evangelical Heritage Version

¹⁶ because they rejected my ordinances and did not walk in my statutes. Instead, they profaned my Sabbaths. This happened because their hearts chase after their filthy idols. ¹⁷ Nevertheless, my eye had pity on them so that I did not destroy them, and I did not completely destroy them in the wilderness.

¹⁸ Then I said to their children in the wilderness: “Do not walk in the statutes of your fathers. Do not observe their ordinances, and do not defile yourselves with their filthy idols.