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Ezekiel 20:23–24

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20:23I also swore39 to them in the wilderness that I would scatter them among the nations and disperse them throughout the lands.4020:24I did this41 because they did not observe my regulations, they rejected my statutes, they desecrated my Sabbaths, and their eyes were fixed on42 their fathers’ idols.

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  1. 39 Heb “I lifted up my hand.”
  2. 40 Though the Pentateuch does not seem to know of this episode, Ps 106:26–27 may speak of God’s oath to exile the people before they had entered Canaan.
  3. 41 The words “I did this” are not in the Hebrew text, but are supplied for stylistic reasons. Verses 23–24 are one long sentence in the Hebrew text. The translation divides this sentence into two for stylistic reasons.
  4. 42 Or “they worshiped” (, , ); Heb “their eyes were on” or “were after” (cf. v. 16).

In other versions

ESVEnglish Standard Version

Moreover, I swore to them in the wilderness that I would scatter them among the nations and disperse them through the countries, because they had not obeyed my rules, but had rejected my statutes and profaned my Sabbaths, and their eyes were set on their fathers’ idols.

NIVNew International Version (2011)

Also with uplifted hand I swore to them in the wilderness that I would disperse them among the nations and scatter them through the countries, because they had not obeyed my laws but had rejected my decrees and desecrated my Sabbaths, and their eyes lusted after their parents’ idols.

CSBChristian Standard Bible

However, I swore to them in the wilderness that I would disperse them among the nations and scatter them among the countries. For they did not practice my ordinances but rejected my statutes and profaned my Sabbaths, and their eyes were fixed on their fathers’ idols.

NLTNew Living Translation

But I took a solemn oath against them in the wilderness. I swore I would scatter them among all the nations because they did not obey my regulations. They scorned my decrees by violating my Sabbath days and longing for the idols of their ancestors.

LEBThe Lexham English Bible

What is more, I swore to them in the desert to scatter them among the nations and to disperse them in the lands, because they did not do my regulations, and my statutes they despised, and my Sabbaths they profaned, and their eyes were after the idols of their ancestors.

KJV 1900King James Version

I lifted up mine hand unto them also in the wilderness, that I would scatter them among the heathen, and disperse them through the countries; 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.