Ezekiel 20:18

KJV1611 – Modern English

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:

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  • Linguistic Bible Translation from Source Texts

    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.

  • King James Version 1769 (Standard Version)

    But I said unto their children in the wilderness, Walk ye not in the statutes of your fathers, neither observe their judgments, nor defile yourselves with their idols:

  • American Standard Version with Strong's Numbers

    And I said{H559} unto their children{H1121} in the wilderness,{H4057} Walk{H3212} ye not in the statutes{H2706} of your fathers,{H1} neither observe{H8104} their ordinances,{H4941} nor defile{H2930} yourselves with their idols.{H1544}

  • King James Version with Strong's Numbers

    But I said{H559}{(H8799)} unto their children{H1121} in the wilderness{H4057}, Walk{H3212}{(H8799)} ye not in the statutes{H2706} of your fathers{H1}, neither observe{H8104}{(H8799)} their judgments{H4941}, nor defile{H2930}{(H8691)} yourselves with their idols{H1544}:

  • Coverdale Bible (1535)

    Morouer, I sayde vnto their sonnes in ye wildernesse: walke not in the statutes of yor forefathers, kepe not their ordinaunces, and defyle not youre selues with their Idols,

  • Geneva Bible (1560)

    But I said vnto their children in the wildernes, Walke ye not in the ordinances of your fathers, neither obserue their maners, nor defile your selues with their idoles.

  • Bishops' Bible (1568)

    Moreouer, I sayde vnto their sonnes in the wildernesse, Walke not in the statutes of your fathers, kepe not their iudgementes, and defile not your selues with their idols.

  • Authorized King James Version (1611)

    But I said unto their children in the wilderness, Walk ye not in the statutes of your fathers, neither observe their judgments, nor defile yourselves with their idols:

  • Webster's Bible (1833)

    I said to their children in the wilderness, Don't you walk in the statutes of your fathers, neither observe their ordinances, nor defile yourselves with their idols.

  • Young's Literal Translation (1862/1898)

    And I say to their sons in the wilderness: In the statutes of your fathers ye walk not, And their judgments ye do not observe, And with their idols ye are not defiled.

  • American Standard Version (1901)

    And I said unto their children in the wilderness, Walk ye not in the statutes of your fathers, neither observe their ordinances, nor defile yourselves with their idols.

  • American Standard Version (1901)

    And I said unto their children in the wilderness, Walk ye not in the statutes of your fathers, neither observe their ordinances, nor defile yourselves with their idols.

  • Bible in Basic English (1941)

    And I said to their children in the waste land, Do not be guided by the rules of your fathers or keep their orders or make yourselves unclean with their images:

  • World English Bible (2000)

    I said to their children in the wilderness, Don't walk in the statutes of your fathers, neither observe their ordinances, nor defile yourselves with their idols.

  • NET Bible® (New English Translation)

    “‘But I said to their children in the wilderness,“Do not follow the practices of your fathers; do not observe their regulations, nor defile yourselves with their idols.

Referenced Verses

  • Deut 4:3-6 : 3 Your eyes have seen what the LORD did because of Baalpeor: for all the men that followed Baalpeor, the LORD your God has destroyed them from among you. 4 But you who cleaved to the LORD your God are alive every one of you this day. 5 Behold, I have taught you statutes and judgments, even as the LORD my God commanded me, that you should do so in the land where you go to possess it. 6 Keep therefore and do them; for this is your wisdom and your understanding in the sight of the nations, who shall hear all these statutes, and say, Surely this great nation is a wise and understanding people.
  • Ezek 20:7 : 7 Then I said to them, Cast away every man the abominations of his eyes, and do not defile yourselves with the idols of Egypt: I am the LORD your God.
  • 1 Pet 1:18 : 18 Knowing that you were not redeemed with corruptible things, like silver or gold, from your aimless conduct received by tradition from your fathers,
  • Num 14:32-33 : 32 But as for you, your carcasses, they shall fall in this wilderness. 33 And your children shall wander in the wilderness forty years, and bear your faithlessness, until your carcasses are consumed in the wilderness.
  • Num 32:13-15 : 13 And the LORD's anger was kindled against Israel, and he made them wander in the wilderness forty years, until all the generation that had done evil in the sight of the LORD was consumed. 14 And, behold, you have risen in your fathers' place, an increase of sinful men, to add still more to the fierce anger of the LORD toward Israel. 15 For if you turn away from following him, he will again leave them in the wilderness, and you will have destroyed all this people.
  • Zech 1:2-4 : 2 The LORD has been very displeased with your fathers. 3 Therefore say to them, Thus says the LORD of hosts: Turn to Me, says the LORD of hosts, and I will turn to you, says the LORD of hosts. 4 Do not be like your fathers, to whom the former prophets proclaimed, saying, Thus says the LORD of hosts: Turn now from your evil ways and from your evil deeds. But they did not hear nor listen to Me, says the LORD.
  • Luke 11:47-48 : 47 Woe to you! for you build the tombs of the prophets, and your fathers killed them. 48 Truly you bear witness that you approve the deeds of your fathers: for they indeed killed them, and you build their tombs.
  • Acts 7:51 : 51 You stiff-necked and uncircumcised in heart and ears, you always resist the Holy Spirit; as your fathers did, so do you.
  • Ps 78:6-8 : 6 That the generation to come might know them, even the children who should be born; who should arise and declare them to their children: 7 That they might set their hope in God, and not forget the works of God, but keep his commandments: 8 And might not be like their fathers, a stubborn and rebellious generation; a generation that did not set their heart aright, and whose spirit was not steadfast with God.
  • Jer 2:7 : 7 And I brought you into a plentiful country, to eat its fruit and its goodness; but when you entered, you defiled my land, and made my heritage an abomination.
  • Jer 3:9 : 9 And it came to pass through the frivolity of her whoredom, that she polluted the land and committed adultery with stones and with stocks.

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  • Ezek 20:19-27
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    84%

    19 I am the LORD your God; walk in my statutes, and keep my judgments, and do them;

    20 And hallow my sabbaths, and they shall be a sign between me and you, that you may know that I am the LORD your God.

    21 Nevertheless the children rebelled against me: they did not walk in my statutes, nor kept my judgments to do them, which if a man does, 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.

    22 Nevertheless I withdrew my hand, and acted for my name's sake, that it should not be polluted in the sight of the heathen, in whose sight I brought them out.

    23 I lifted up my hand to them also in the wilderness, that I would scatter them among the heathen, and disperse them through the countries;

    24 Because they had not executed my judgments, but had despised my statutes, and had polluted my sabbaths, and their eyes were after their fathers' idols.

    25 Therefore I gave them also statutes that were not good, and judgments by which they should not live;

    26 And I polluted them in their own gifts, in that they caused to pass through the fire all that opens the womb, that I might make them desolate, so that they might know that I am the LORD.

    27 Therefore, son of man, speak to the house of Israel, and say to them, Thus says the Lord GOD; Yet in this your fathers have blasphemed me, in that they have committed a trespass against me.

  • Ezek 20:13-17
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    80%

    13 But the house of Israel rebelled against me in the wilderness: they did not walk in my statutes, and they despised my judgments, which if a man does, he shall even live in them; and they greatly polluted my sabbaths: then I said, I would pour out my fury upon them in the wilderness, to consume them.

    14 But I acted for my name's sake, that it should not be polluted before the heathen, in whose sight I brought them out.

    15 Yet also I lifted up my hand to them in the wilderness, that I would not bring them into the land which I had given them, flowing with milk and honey, which is the glory of all lands;

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

    17 Nevertheless my eye spared them from destroying them, nor did I make an end of them in the wilderness.

  • Ezek 20:7-8
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    79%

    7 Then I said to them, Cast away every man the abominations of his eyes, and do not defile yourselves with the idols of Egypt: I am the LORD your God.

    8 But they rebelled against me, and would not listen to me: they did not cast away every man the abominations of their eyes, nor did they forsake the idols of Egypt: then I said, I will pour out my fury upon them, to accomplish my anger against them in the midst of the land of Egypt.

  • Lev 20:23
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    23 And you shall not walk in the manners of the nation which I cast out before you: for they committed all these things, and therefore I abhorred them.

  • Lev 18:2-4
    3 verses
    77%

    2 Speak to the children of Israel and say to them, I am the LORD your God.

    3 You shall not do according to the practices of the land of Egypt, where you lived; and you shall not do according to the practices of the land of Canaan, where I bring you; you shall not walk in their ordinances.

    4 You shall do my judgments and keep my ordinances, to walk in them: I am the LORD your God.

  • Lev 19:4
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    4 Do not turn to idols, nor make for yourselves molten gods: I am the LORD your God.

  • Deut 20:18
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    18 That they teach you not to do according to all their abominations, which they have done for their gods; so you would sin against the LORD your God.

  • Ezek 20:30-32
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    30 Therefore say to the house of Israel, Thus says the Lord GOD; Are you polluted after the manner of your fathers? and commit you harlotry after their abominations?

    31 For when you offer your gifts, when you make your sons to pass through the fire, you pollute yourselves with all your idols, even to this day: and shall I be inquired of by you, O house of Israel? As I live, says the Lord GOD, I will not be inquired of by you.

    32 And what comes into your mind shall not happen, that you say, We will be as the heathen, as the families of the countries, to serve wood and stone.

  • Lev 18:30
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    30 Therefore you shall keep my ordinance, that you do not commit any of these abominable customs, which were committed before you, and that you do not defile yourselves by them: I am the LORD your God.

  • Jer 16:11-12
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    74%

    11 Then you shall say to them, Because your fathers have forsaken me, says the LORD, and have walked after other gods, and have served them, and have worshiped them, and have forsaken me, and have not kept my law.

    12 And you have done worse than your fathers, for behold, each one walks after the imagination of his evil heart, so that you do not listen to me.

  • 2 Kgs 17:15
    74%

    15 They rejected his statutes and his covenant that he made with their fathers, and his testimonies which he testified against them; they followed worthless idols, and became worthless themselves, and went after the nations that were around them, although the LORD had commanded them not to do like them.

  • 2 Kgs 17:8
    73%

    8 And they walked in the statutes of the nations whom the LORD had cast out from before the children of Israel, and of the kings of Israel, which they had made.

  • Lev 20:8
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    8 And you shall keep my statutes and do them: I am the LORD who sanctifies you.

  • Ezek 11:12
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    12 And you shall know that I am the LORD: for you have not walked in my statutes, nor executed my judgments, but have done according to the ways of the nations that are around you.

  • 2 Kgs 17:12
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    12 For they served idols, of which the LORD had said to them, You shall not do this thing.

  • 2 Chr 30:7
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    7 And do not be like your fathers, and like your brethren, who trespassed against the LORD God of their fathers, who therefore gave them up to desolation, as you see.

  • Jer 2:5
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    5 Thus says the LORD, What wrong have your fathers found in me, that they have gone far from me, and have followed idols, and have become idolaters?

  • Ezek 20:39
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    39 As for you, O house of Israel, thus says the Lord GOD; Go, serve every one his idols, and hereafter also, if you will not listen to me: but pollute my holy name no more with your gifts, and with your idols.

  • Num 14:33
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    33 And your children shall wander in the wilderness forty years, and bear your faithlessness, until your carcasses are consumed in the wilderness.

  • Ezek 20:4
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    4 Will you judge them, son of man, will you judge them? Make them know the abominations of their fathers:

  • Jer 9:13-14
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    13 And the LORD says, Because they have forsaken my law which I set before them, and have not obeyed my voice, nor walked in it;

    14 But have walked after the imagination of their own heart, and after Baalim, which their fathers taught them:

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    20 That they may walk in my statutes, and keep my ordinances, and do them: and they shall be my people, and I will be their God.

  • Jer 7:22
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    22 For I did not speak to your fathers, nor command them in the day that I brought them out of the land of Egypt, concerning burnt offerings or sacrifices:

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    19 Also Judah did not keep the commandments of the LORD their God, but walked in the statutes of Israel which they had made.

  • Lev 18:24
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    24 Do not defile yourselves in any of these things: for in all these the nations are defiled, which I cast out before you.

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

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    17 Yet they would not listen to their judges, but they went whoring after other gods, and bowed themselves to them: they quickly turned out of the way which their fathers walked in, obeying the commandments of the LORD; they did not do so.

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    1 You shall make no idols nor carved image, neither set up a standing image, nor shall you set up any image of stone in your land to bow down to it: for I am the LORD your God.

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    6 But if you or your children turn from following Me, and do not keep My commandments and My statutes which I have set before you, but go and serve other gods, and worship them:

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    30 You shall keep my sabbaths and reverence my sanctuary: I am the LORD.

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    8 And might not be like their fathers, a stubborn and rebellious generation; a generation that did not set their heart aright, and whose spirit was not steadfast with God.