Ezekiel 20:21

¹⁹  I am the LORD your God; walk in my statutes, and keep my judgments, and do them;

²⁰  And hallow my sabbaths; and they shall be a sign between me and you, that ye may know that I am the LORD your God.

²¹  Notwithstanding the children rebelled against me: they walked not in my statutes, neither kept my judgments to do them, which if a man do, he shall even live in them; they polluted my sabbaths: then I said, I would pour out my fury upon them, to accomplish my anger against them in the wilderness.

²²  Nevertheless I withdrew mine hand, and wrought for my name's sake, that it should not be polluted in the sight of the heathen, in whose sight I brought them forth.

²³  I lifted up mine hand unto them also in the wilderness, that I would scatter them among the heathen, and disperse them through the countries;