Ezekiel 20:20 asv — and hallow my sabbaths; and they shall be a sign between me and you, that ye may know that I am Jehovah your God.

Nevertheless mine eye spared them, and I destroyed them not, neither did I make a full end of them in the wilderness.

And I said unto their children in the wilderness, Walk ye not in the statutes of your fathers, neither observe their ordinances, nor defile yourselves with their idols.

I am Jehovah your God: walk in my statutes, and keep mine ordinances, and do them;

But the children rebelled against me; they walked not in my statutes, neither kept mine ordinances to do them, which if a man do, he shall live in them; they profaned my sabbaths. Then I said I would pour out my wrath upon them, to accomplish my anger against them in the wilderness.

Nevertheless I withdrew my hand, and wrought for my name’s sake, that it should not be profaned in the sight of the nations, in whose sight I brought them forth.

Moreover I sware unto them in the wilderness, that I would scatter them among the nations, and disperse them through the countries;