Ezekiel 20:16

¹⁴But I wrought so that my name should not be at all profaned before the Gentiles, before whose eyes I brought them out.

¹⁵But I lifted up my hand against them in the wilderness once for all, that I would not bring them into the land which I gave them, a land flowing with milk and honey, it is sweeter than all lands:

— Ezekiel 20:16 —

¹⁷Yet mine eyes spared them, so as not to destroy them utterly, and I did not make an end of them in the wilderness.

¹⁸And I said to their children in the wilderness, Walk not ye in the customs of your fathers, and keep not their ordinances, and have no fellowship with their practices, nor defile yourselves with them.