Ezekiel 20:13-15

Revised Geneva Translation

¹³ “But the House of Israel rebelled against Me in the wilderness. They did not walk in My Statutes. And they cast away My Judgments, which if a man does, he shall live in them. And they have greatly profaned My Sabbaths. Then I thought to pour out My indignation upon them in the wilderness, to consume them.

¹⁴ “But I acted for the sake of My Name, so that it would not be profaned before the heathen, in whose sight I brought them out.

¹⁵ “Yet, nevertheless, I lifted up My Hand to them in the wilderness, so that I would not bring them into the land which I had given them, flowing with milk and honey, which was pleasant above all lands,