The Bible Verse By Verse Continued...

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Ezekiel 20:7 (NIV)

And I said to them, “Each of you, get rid of the vile images you have set your eyes on, and do not defile yourselves
with the idols of Egypt. I am the Lord your God.”

 

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Ezekiel 20:8 (NIV)

“‘But they rebelled against me and would not listen to me; they did not get rid of the vile images they had set their
eyes on, nor did they forsake the idols of Egypt. So I said I would pour out my wrath on them and spend my anger
against them in Egypt.

 

[GracethroughfaithinChrist]

Ezekiel 20:9 (ESV)
But I acted for the sake of my name, that it should not be profaned in the sight of the nations among whom they lived, in whose sight I made myself known to them in bringing them out of the land of Egypt.

 

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Ezekiel 20:10 (NASB)
So I took them out of the land of Egypt and brought them into the wilderness.

 

[Lucy-Pevensie]

Ezekiel 20:11 (KJV)

And I gave them my statutes, and shewed them my judgments, which if a man do, he shall even live in them.

 

[Lucy-Pevensie]

Ezekiel 20:12 (KJV)

Moreover also I gave them my sabbaths, to be a sign between me and them, that they might know that
I am the Lord that sanctify them.

 

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Ezekiel 20:13 (ASV)
But the house of Israel rebelled against me in the wilderness: they walked not in my statutes, and they rejected mine ordinances, which if a man keep, he shall live in them; and my sabbaths they greatly profaned. Then I said I would pour out my wrath upon them in the wilderness, to consume them.

 

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Ezekiel 20:14 (BSB)
But I acted for the sake of My name, so that it would not be profaned in the eyes of the nations in whose sight I had brought them out.

 

[Lucy-Pevensie]

Ezekiel 20:15 (CSB)

However, I swore to them in the wilderness that I would not bring them into the land I had given them—
the most beautiful of all lands, flowing with milk and honey—

 

[Lucy-Pevensie]

Ezekiel 20:16 (CSB)

because they rejected my ordinances, profaned my Sabbaths, and did not follow my statutes.
For their hearts went after their idols.

 

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Ezekiel 20:17 (ESV)
Nevertheless, my eye spared them, and I did not destroy them or make a full end of them in the wilderness.

 

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Ezekiel 20:18 (NKJV)
“But I said to their children in the wilderness, ‘Do not walk in the statutes of your fathers, nor observe their judgments, nor defile yourselves with their idols.

 

[Lucy-Pevensie]

Ezekiel 20:19 (NASB)

I am the Lord your God; walk in My statutes and keep My ordinances and follow them.

 

[Lucy-Pevensie]

Ezekiel 20:20 (NASB)

Sanctify My Sabbaths; and they shall be a sign between Me and you, so that you may know that I am the Lord your God.’

 

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Ezekiel 20:21 (KJV)
Notwithstanding the children rebelled against me: they walked not in my statutes, neither kept my judgments to do them, which if a man do, he shall even live in them; they polluted my sabbaths: then I said, I would pour out my fury upon them, to accomplish my anger against them in the wilderness.

 

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Ezekiel 20:22 (NKJV)
Nevertheless I withdrew My hand and acted for My name’s sake, that it should not be profaned in the sight of the Gentiles, in whose sight I had brought them out.

 

[Lucy-Pevensie]

Ezekiel 20:23 (NIV)

Also with uplifted hand I swore to them in the wilderness that I would disperse them among the nations and
scatter them through the countries,

 

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Ezekiel 20:24 (NIV)

because they had not obeyed my laws but had rejected my decrees and desecrated my Sabbaths, and their eyes
lusted after their parents’ idols.

 

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Ezekiel 20:25 (NKJV)
“Therefore I also gave them up to statutes that were not good, and judgments by which they could not live;

 

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Ezekiel 20:26 (NKJV)
and I pronounced them unclean because of their ritual gifts, in that they caused all their firstborn to pass through the fire, that I might make them desolate and that they might know that I am the LORD.” ’