Ezekiel 20:16

Berean Standard Bible (BSB)

because they kept rejecting My ordinances, refusing to walk in My statutes, and profaning My Sabbaths; for their hearts continually went after their idols.

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14 But I acted for the sake of My name, so that it would not be profaned in the eyes of the nations in whose sight I had brought them out.

15 Moreover, with an uplifted hand I swore to them in the wilderness that I would not bring them into the land that I had given them—a land flowing with milk and honey, the glory of all lands—

16 because they kept rejecting My ordinances, refusing to walk in My statutes, and profaning My Sabbaths; for their hearts continually went after their idols.

17 Yet I looked on them with pity and did not destroy them or bring them to an end in the wilderness.

18 In the wilderness I said to their children: ‘Do not walk in the statutes of your fathers or keep their ordinances or defile yourselves with their idols.

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Ezekiel 20:16 in every translation

BSB Berean Standard Bible: because they kept rejecting My ordinances, refusing to walk in My statutes, and profaning My Sabbaths; for their hearts continually went after their idols.
KJV King James Version: Because they despised my judgments, and walked not in my statutes, but polluted my sabbaths: for their heart went after their idols.
WEB World English Bible: because they rejected my ordinances, and didn’t walk in my statutes, and profaned my Sabbaths; for their heart went after their idols.
ASV American Standard Version: because they rejected mine ordinances, and walked not in my statutes, and profaned my sabbaths: for their heart went after their idols.
YLT Young's Literal Translation: 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.
DBY Darby Translation: because they rejected mine ordinances and walked not in my statutes, and profaned my sabbaths: for their heart went after their idols.
WBS Webster Bible: Because they despised my judgments, and walked not in my statutes, but profaned my sabbaths: for their heart went after their idols.