Ezekiel 20:16-18

Holman Christian Standard Bible

¹⁶ because they rejected My ordinances, profaned My Sabbaths, and did not follow My statutes. For their hearts went after their idols.^{(A) 17} But I spared them from destruction and did not bring them to an end in the wilderness.^(B)

¹⁸ “Then I said to their children in the wilderness: Don’t follow the statutes of your fathers, defile yourselves with their idols, or keep their ordinances.^(C)