Ezekiel 20:7-9

Christian Standard Bible Anglicised

⁷ I also said to them, ‘Throw away, each of you, the abhorrent things that you prize,^[a] and do not defile yourselves with the idols of Egypt.^(A) I am the Lord your God.’^(B)

⁸ ‘ “But they rebelled against me and were unwilling to listen to me. None of them threw away the abhorrent things that they prized,^[b] and they did not abandon the idols of Egypt. So I considered pouring out my wrath on them,^(C) exhausting my anger against them within the land of Egypt. ⁹ But I acted for the sake of my name,^(D) so that it would not be profaned in the eyes of the nations they were living among, in whose sight I had made myself known to Israel by bringing them out of Egypt.