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Ezekiel 20:18 - Meaning and Application

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Translation: World English Bible — Catholic Edition

" I said to their children in the wilderness, ‘Don’t walk in the statutes of your fathers. Don’t observe their ordinances or defile yourselves with their idols. "

Ezekiel 20:18

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16 because they rejected my ordinances, and didn’t walk in my statutes, and profaned my Sabbaths; for their heart went after their idols.

17 Nevertheless my eye spared them, and I didn’t destroy them. I didn’t make a full end of them in the wilderness.

18 I said to their children in the wilderness, ‘Don’t walk in the statutes of your fathers. Don’t observe their ordinances or defile yourselves with their idols.

19 I am the LORD your God. Walk in my statutes, keep my ordinances, and do them.

20 Make my Sabbaths holy. They shall be a sign between me and you, that you may know that I am the LORD your God.’

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Ezekiel 20:1

"In the seventh year, in the fifth month, the tenth day of the month, some of the elders of Israel came to inquire of the LORD, and sat before me."

Ezekiel 20:2

"The LORD’s word came to me, saying,"

Ezekiel 20:3

"“Son of man, speak to the elders of Israel, and tell them, ‘The Lord GOD says: “Is it to inquire of me that you have come? As I live,” says the Lord GOD, “I will not be inquired of by you.”’"

Ezekiel 20:4

"“Will you judge them, son of man? Will you judge them? Cause them to know the abominations of their fathers."

Ezekiel 20:5

"Tell them, ‘The Lord GOD says: “In the day when I chose Israel, and swore to the offspring of the house of Jacob, and made myself known to them in the land of Egypt, when I swore to them, saying, ‘I am the LORD your God;’"

Ezekiel 20:6

"in that day I swore to them to bring them out of the land of Egypt into a land that I had searched out for them, flowing with milk and honey, which is the glory of all lands."

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