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Ezekiel 20:8

Verse 8 of 49. The 20th of 48 chapters in Ezekiel, in The Major Prophets.

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

5Tell 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;’

6in 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.

7I said to them, ‘Each of you throw away the abominations of his eyes. Don’t defile yourselves with the idols of Egypt. I am the LORD your God.’

8“‘“But they rebelled against me and wouldn’t listen to me. They didn’t all throw away the abominations of their eyes. They also didn’t forsake the idols of Egypt. Then I said I would pour out my wrath on them, to accomplish my anger against them in the middle of the land of Egypt.

9But I worked for my name’s sake, that it should not be profaned in the sight of the nations among which they were, in whose sight I made myself known to them in bringing them out of the land of Egypt.

10So I caused them to go out of the land of Egypt and brought them into the wilderness.

11I gave them my statutes and showed them my ordinances, which if a man does, he will live in them.

12Moreover also I gave them my Sabbaths, to be a sign between me and them, that they might know that I am the LORD who sanctifies them.

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World English Bible. Public domain. Set as prose throughout, including the poetry, because the text is published to us without its lines.