Ezekiel 20:13

“Now do not be like your fathers and your brothers, who were unfaithful to Yahweh, the God of their fathers, so that He made them an object of horror, as you see.

Therefore He said that He would destroy them, Had not Moses His chosen one stood in the breach before Him, To turn away His wrath from eradicating them.

“Yet they did not listen or incline their ear, but walked in their own counsels and in the stubbornness of their evil heart and went backward and not forward.

“But they rebelled against Me and were not willing to listen to Me; each one did not cast away the detestable things of their eyes, nor did they forsake the idols of Egypt. Then I said I would pour out My wrath on them, to spend My anger against them in the midst of the land of Egypt.

“I gave them My statutes and made them know My judgments, which, if a man does them, he will live by them.

“As I entered into judgment with your fathers in the wilderness of the land of Egypt, so I will enter into judgment with you,” declares Lord Yahweh.

“You have despised My holy things and profaned My sabbaths.

“Again, they have done this to Me: they have defiled My sanctuary on the same day and have profaned My sabbaths.

For Moses writes about the righteousness which is of law: “The man who does these things shall live by them.”