King James Version (KJV) Authorized Version 1611
Read Full Chapter (Ezekiel 20) Ezekiel 20:14-17 KJV
"But I wrought for my name’s sake, that it should not be polluted before the heathen, in whose sight I brought them out. Yet also I lifted up my hand unto 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; Because they despised my judgments, and walked not in my statutes, but polluted my sabbaths: for their heart went after their idols. Nevertheless mine eye spared them from destroying them, neither did I make an end of them in the wilderness."
Ezekiel Chapter 20, Verse 14-17
Ezekiel 20:14-17 in Context (Verses 11–20 KJV)
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And I gave them my statutes, and shewed them my judgments, which if a man do, he shall even live in them.*
12
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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But the house of Israel rebelled against me in the wilderness: they walked not in my statutes, and they despised my judgments, which if a man do, he shall even live in them; and my sabbaths they greatly polluted: then I said, I would pour out my fury upon them in the wilderness, to consume them.
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But I wrought for my name’s sake, that it should not be polluted before the heathen, in whose sight I brought them out.
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Yet also I lifted up my hand unto 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;
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Because they despised my judgments, and walked not in my statutes, but polluted my sabbaths: for their heart went after their idols.
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Nevertheless mine eye spared them from destroying them, neither did I make an end of them in the wilderness.
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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:
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I am the LORD your God; walk in my statutes, and keep my judgments, and do them;
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And hallow my sabbaths; and they shall be a sign between me and you, that ye may know that I am the LORD your God.