Ezekiel 20:16-18 Good News Bible Anglicised (GNBDC)

16. I made the promise because they had rejected my commands, broken my laws, and profaned the Sabbath — they preferred to worship their idols.

17. “But then I took pity on them. I decided not to kill them there in the desert.

18. Instead, I warned the young people among them: do not keep the laws your ancestors made; do not follow their customs or defile yourselves with their idols.

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