Ezekiel 20:16

Linguistic Bible Translation from Source Texts

because they rejected my ordinances, did not walk in my statutes, and profaned my Sabbaths, for their hearts followed after their idols.

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Other Translations

  • King James Version 1769 (Standard Version)

    Because they despised my judgments, and walked not in my statutes, but polluted my sabbaths: for their heart went after their idols.

  • KJV1611 – Modern English

    Because they despised my judgments, and did not walk in my statutes, but polluted my sabbaths: for their heart went after their idols.

  • King James Version 1611 (Original)

    Because they despised my judgments, and walked not in my statutes, but polluted my sabbaths: for their heart went after their idols.

  • American Standard Version with Strong's Numbers

    because they rejected{H3988} mine ordinances,{H4941} and walked{H1980} not in my statutes,{H2708} and profaned{H2490} my sabbaths:{H7676} for their heart{H3820} went{H1980} after{H310} their idols.{H1544}

  • King James Version with Strong's Numbers

    Because they despised{H3988}{(H8804)} my judgments{H4941}, and walked{H1980}{(H8804)} not in my statutes{H2708}, but polluted{H2490}{(H8765)} my sabbaths{H7676}: for their heart{H3820} went{H1980}{(H8802)} after{H310} their idols{H1544}.

  • Coverdale Bible (1535)

    & yt because they refused my lawes, & walked not in my comaundemetes, but had vnhalowed my Sabbathes, for their herte was gone after their Idols.

  • Geneva Bible (1560)

    Because they cast away my iudgments, and walked not in my statutes, but haue polluted my Sabbaths: for their heart went after their idoles.

  • Bishops' Bible (1568)

    And that because they cast away my iudgementes and walked not in my statutes: but haue defiled my Sabbathes: for their heart was gone after their idols.

  • Authorized King James Version (1611)

    Because they despised my judgments, and walked not in my statutes, but polluted my sabbaths: for their heart went after their idols.

  • Webster's Bible (1833)

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

  • Young's Literal Translation (1862/1898)

    Because against My judgments they did kick, And in My statutes they have not walked, And My sabbaths they have polluted, For after their idols their heart is going.

  • American Standard Version (1901)

    because they rejected mine ordinances, and walked not in my statutes, and profaned my sabbaths: for their heart went after their idols.

  • American Standard Version (1901)

    because they rejected mine ordinances, and walked not in my statutes, and profaned my sabbaths: for their heart went after their idols.

  • Bible in Basic English (1941)

    Because they were turned away from my orders, and were not guided by my rules, and had no respect for my Sabbaths: for their hearts went after their images.

  • World English Bible (2000)

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

  • NET Bible® (New English Translation)

    I did this because they rejected my regulations, did not follow my statutes, and desecrated my Sabbaths; for their hearts followed their idols.

Referenced Verses

  • Num 15:39 : 39 These tassels will serve as a reminder. When you see them, you will remember all the commandments of the Lord and obey them. You will not follow the desires of your own heart and eyes, which lead you astray.
  • Ezek 14:3-4 : 3 Son of man, these men have set up their idols in their hearts and placed the stumbling block of their iniquity before their faces. Should I really let myself be consulted by them? 4 Therefore, speak to them and say to them, 'This is what the Sovereign LORD says: Any man from the house of Israel who sets up his idols in his heart and puts the stumbling block of his iniquity before his face and then comes to the prophet—I, the LORD, will answer him myself in keeping with the multitude of his idols.'
  • Ezek 20:8 : 8 But they rebelled against me and would not listen to me; none of them got rid of the detestable things their eyes were set on, nor did they forsake the idols of Egypt. So I said I would pour out my wrath on them and unleash my anger against them in the midst of the land of Egypt.
  • Ezek 20:13-14 : 13 But the house of Israel rebelled against me in the wilderness. They did not follow my statutes and rejected my ordinances—though by them a person will live if they do them—and they greatly profaned my Sabbaths. So I said I would pour out my wrath on them in the wilderness to destroy them. 14 But I acted for the sake of my name, to keep it from being profaned in the eyes of the nations in whose sight I had brought them out.
  • Ezek 23:8 : 8 She did not abandon the adulteries she began in Egypt, where men slept with her in her youth, fondling her virgin breasts and pouring out their lust upon her.
  • Amos 5:25-26 : 25 Did you bring me sacrifices and grain offerings during the forty years in the wilderness, O house of Israel? 26 You have carried Sikkuth, your king, and Kiyyun, your idols, the stars of your gods that you made for yourselves.
  • Acts 7:39-43 : 39 But our ancestors were unwilling to obey him. Instead, they rejected him and in their hearts turned back to Egypt. 40 They said to Aaron, 'Make us gods who will lead us, for we do not know what has happened to this Moses, who brought us out of the land of Egypt.' 41 At that time, they made a calf and offered a sacrifice to the idol, rejoicing in the works of their hands. 42 But God turned away and gave them up to worship the host of heaven, as it is written in the book of the prophets: 'Did you bring me offerings and sacrifices for forty years in the wilderness, house of Israel?' 43 'You have taken up the tabernacle of Moloch and the star of your god Rephan, the images you made to worship. Therefore, I will send you into exile beyond Babylon.'
  • Num 25:2 : 2 The women invited the people to the sacrifices of their gods, and the people ate and bowed down to their gods.
  • Exod 32:1-8 : 1 When the people saw that Moses delayed in coming down from the mountain, they gathered around Aaron and said to him, "Get up, make for us gods who will go before us, because this Moses, the man who brought us up out of the land of Egypt, we do not know what has happened to him." 2 Aaron said to them, "Take off the gold earrings that are on the ears of your wives, your sons, and your daughters, and bring them to me." 3 So all the people took off the gold earrings that were in their ears and brought them to Aaron. 4 He took the gold from their hands, fashioned it with a tool, and made it into a molten calf. Then they said, "These are your gods, Israel, who brought you up out of the land of Egypt." 5 When Aaron saw this, he built an altar in front of it and proclaimed, "Tomorrow there will be a festival to the LORD." 6 The next day the people rose early, offered burnt offerings, and brought peace offerings. They sat down to eat and drink and got up to engage in revelry. 7 Then the LORD said to Moses, "Go down, because your people, whom you brought up out of Egypt, have corrupted themselves." 8 They have turned aside quickly from the way I commanded them. They have made for themselves a molten calf, bowed down to it, sacrificed to it, and said, 'These are your gods, Israel, who brought you up out of the land of Egypt.'

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    17 Yet my eye spared them from destruction, and I did not destroy them completely in the wilderness.

    18 I said to their children in the wilderness, 'Do not follow the statutes of your fathers, do not observe their ordinances, and do not defile yourselves with their idols.

    19 'I am the LORD your God; walk in my statutes, keep my ordinances, and obey them.

    20 Sanctify my Sabbaths, and they will be a sign between me and you so that you may know that I am the LORD your God.'

    21 But the children rebelled against me. They did not walk in my statutes, and they did not keep my ordinances to obey them, though by them a person will live. They profaned my Sabbaths, so I said I would pour out my wrath on them and unleash my anger against them in the wilderness.

    22 But I withdrew my hand and acted for the sake of my name, to keep it from being profaned in the sight of the nations, in whose sight I had brought them out.

    23 I also swore to them in the wilderness that I would scatter them among the nations and disperse them throughout the lands,

    24 because they did not carry out my ordinances but rejected my statutes and profaned my Sabbaths, and their eyes were fixed on their fathers' idols.

    25 So I also gave them statutes that were not good and ordinances by which they could not live.

    26 I defiled them through their own gifts, by making them cause all their firstborn to pass through the fire, in order to devastate them and make them know that I am the LORD.

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    12 Also, I gave them my Sabbaths as a sign between me and them, so they would know that I am the LORD who makes them holy.

    13 But the house of Israel rebelled against me in the wilderness. They did not follow my statutes and rejected my ordinances—though by them a person will live if they do them—and they greatly profaned my Sabbaths. So I said I would pour out my wrath on them in the wilderness to destroy them.

    14 But I acted for the sake of my name, to keep it from being profaned in the eyes of the nations in whose sight I had brought them out.

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    43 For the land will be abandoned by them and will enjoy its sabbaths while it lies desolate without them; they will accept their punishment for their iniquity, because they rejected my judgments and their soul abhorred my statutes.

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    13 Instead, they followed the stubbornness of their hearts and went after the Baals, as their fathers taught them.

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    15 They despised His statutes, His covenant that He made with their fathers, and His warnings He gave them. They followed worthless idols and became worthless themselves. They imitated the nations around them, though the Lord had commanded them not to do so.

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    8 You have despised my holy things and profaned my Sabbaths.

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    38 They have also done this to me: On the same day they defiled my sanctuary and desecrated my Sabbaths.

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    8 But they rebelled against me and would not listen to me; none of them got rid of the detestable things their eyes were set on, nor did they forsake the idols of Egypt. So I said I would pour out my wrath on them and unleash my anger against them in the midst of the land of Egypt.

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    6 But she has rebelled against My rules more wickedly than the nations and against My statutes more than the surrounding countries. They have rejected My judgments and have not walked in My statutes.

    7 Therefore, this is what the Lord GOD says: Because you are more rebellious than the surrounding nations—you have not walked in My statutes or done what My judgments demand, nor have you even lived according to the laws of the nations around you.

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    19 But even Judah did not keep the commandments of the Lord their God. They followed the practices of Israel as the Israelites had done.

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    12 They served idols, about which the Lord had said to them, 'You shall not do this thing.'

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    18 So I poured out my wrath on them because of the blood they had shed on the land and because they had defiled it with their idols.

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    5 So that I may seize the house of Israel by their hearts, because they have all turned away from me through their idols.

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    23 Do not follow the customs of the nations that I am driving out before you. Because they did all these things, I abhorred them.

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    12 Because they served them before their idols and caused the house of Israel to stumble into iniquity, therefore I have lifted My hand against them, declares the Lord GOD, and they shall bear their punishment.

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    39 They defiled themselves by their actions and prostituted themselves by their deeds.

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    30 These things will be done to you because you prostituted yourself to the nations, defiling yourself with their idols.

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    9 It will not be like the covenant I made with their ancestors on the day I took them by the hand to lead them out of the land of Egypt, because they did not remain faithful to my covenant, and so I turned away from them, declares the Lord.

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