Holy Scripture
Ezekiel 20:24
A church father on this verse
“(Ver. 23, 24 onwards) Again, I raised my hand against them in the wilderness, to scatter them among the nations and disperse them in the lands, because they had not performed my judgments, and had rejected my commandments, and had violated my Sabbaths, and their eyes had been after the idols (or thoughts) of their fat…”
Source: Septuagint
Original
24because they kept not mine ordinances, and rejected my commandments, and profaned my Sabbaths, and their eyes went after the imaginations of their fathers.
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22But I wrought so that my name might not be at all profaned before the Gentiles; and I brought them out in their sight.
23I lifted up my hand against them in the wilderness, that I would scatter them among the Gentiles, and disperse them in the countries;
— Ezekiel 20:24 —
25So I gave them commandments that were not good, and ordinances in which they should not live.
26And I will defile them by their own decrees, when I pass through upon everyone that opens the womb, that I may destroy them.