Ezekiel 20:7-9

Evangelical Heritage Version

⁷ I said to them, “Each man must throw away the loathsome things he sets his eyes on. You must not defile yourselves with the filthy idols^[a] of Egypt. I am the Lord, your God.”

⁸ But they rebelled against me and were not willing to listen to me. Not one of them threw away the loathsome things which they set their eyes on. They did not forsake the filthy idols of Egypt, so I resolved to pour out my wrath on them and to exhaust my anger against them in the middle of the land of Egypt. ⁹ I acted for the sake of my name, so that it would not be profaned in the sight of the nations that were around them, the nations in whose sight I had made myself known by bringing the Israelites out of the land of Egypt.