Ezekiel 20:16 WBT

¹⁴  But I wrought for my name's sake, that it should not be profaned before the heathen, in whose sight I brought them out.

¹⁵  Yet also I lifted up my hand to them in the wilderness, that I would not bring them into the land which I had given [them], flowing with milk and honey, which [is] the glory of all lands;

¹⁶  Because they despised my judgments, and walked not in my statutes, but profaned my sabbaths: for their heart went after their idols.

¹⁷  Nevertheless my eye spared them from destroying them, neither did I make an end of them in the wilderness.

¹⁸  But I said to their children in the wilderness, Walk ye not in the statutes of your fathers, neither observe their judgments, nor defile yourselves with their idols: