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Ezekiel 20:10-22 Modern English Version (MEV)

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

11. I gave them My statutes and showed them My judgments, which if a man does them, he shall live.

12. Moreover I gave them My Sabbaths to be a sign between them and Me, that they might know that I am the Lord who sanctifies them.

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 them, he shall live. And My Sabbaths they greatly polluted. 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 nations in whose sight I brought them out.

15. 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 hearts went after their idols.

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

18. But I said to their children in the wilderness: Do not walk in the statutes of your fathers, neither observe their judgments, nor defile yourselves with their idols.

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. Yet the children rebelled against Me. They did not walk in My statutes, nor did they keep My judgments to do them, which if a man does them, he shall live. 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 nations in whose sight I brought them out.

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