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Amplified
[Therefore] I also gave them statutes that were not good and ordinances by which they could not live;
New American Standard Bible
I also gave them statutes that were
King James Version
Wherefore I gave them also statutes that were not good, and judgments whereby they should not live;
Holman Bible
I also gave them statutes that were not good and ordinances
International Standard Version
So I gave them statutes that weren't good and ordinances by which they could not live.
A Conservative Version
Moreover also I gave them statutes that were not good, and ordinances in which they will not live.
American Standard Version
Moreover also I gave them statutes that were not good, and ordinances wherein they should not live;
Bible in Basic English
And further, I gave them rules which were not good and orders in which there was no life for them;
Darby Translation
And I also gave them statutes that were not good, and ordinances whereby they should not live;
Julia Smith Translation
And also I gave to them laws not good, and judgments they shall not live in them.
King James 2000
Therefore I gave them also statutes that were not good, and judgments by which they should not live;
Lexham Expanded Bible
And in turn I gave to them rules [that were] not good and regulations {by which they will not live}.
Modern King James verseion
Also I gave them statutes not good, and judgments by which they should not live.
Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale
Wherefore I gave them also commandments that were not good, and laws through the which they should not live,
NET Bible
I also gave them decrees which were not good and regulations by which they could not live.
New Heart English Bible
Moreover also I gave them statutes that were not good, and ordinances in which they should not live;
The Emphasized Bible
I myself, indeed, suffered them to walk in statutes which were not good, - And regulations in which they could not live.
Webster
Wherefore I gave them also statutes that were not good, and judgments by which they should not live;
World English Bible
Moreover also I gave them statutes that were not good, and ordinances in which they should not live;
Youngs Literal Translation
And I also, I have given to them statutes not good, And judgments by which they do not live.
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Word Count of 20 Translations in Ezekiel 20:25
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Context Readings
God's Dealings With Israel For His Name's Sake
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because they had not observed My ordinances, but had [dishonored and] rejected My statutes and had profaned My Sabbaths, and set their eyes on the [man-made] idols of their fathers.
25 [Therefore] I also gave them statutes that were not good and ordinances by which they could not live;
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Cross References
Psalm 81:12
“So I gave them up to the stubbornness of their heart,
To walk in [the path of] their own counsel.
Isaiah 66:4
So I will choose their punishments,
And will bring the things they dread upon them
Because I called, but no one answered;
I spoke, but they did not listen or obey.
But they did evil in My sight
And chose that in which I did not delight.”
Ezekiel 20:39
“As for you, O house of Israel,” thus says the Lord God, “Go, let everyone serve his idols; but later you shall most certainly listen to Me, and you shall no longer profane My holy name with your gifts and with your idols.
Deuteronomy 4:27-28
The Lord will scatter and disperse you among the peoples (pagan nations), and you will be left few in number among the nations where the Lord drives you.
Deuteronomy 28:36
The Lord will bring you and your king, whom you appoint over you, to a nation which you and your fathers have never known; there you will [be forced to] serve other gods, [lifeless gods of] wood and stone.
Ezekiel 14:9-11
“But if the prophet [who speaks without My authority] is enticed to speak a word [of his own], it is I the Lord who have caused that prophet [to speak falsely to please the inquirer, thus allowing himself to be a party to the inquirer’s sin], and I will stretch out My hand against him and destroy him from among My people Israel.
Ezekiel 20:26
and I pronounced them unclean because of their offerings [to their idols], in that they made all their firstborn pass through the fire [as pagan sacrifices], so that I might make them desolate, in order that they might know [without any doubt] that I am the Lord.”’
Romans 1:21-28
For even though
2 Thessalonians 2:9-11
The coming of the [Antichrist, the lawless] one is through the activity of Satan, [attended] with great power [all kinds of counterfeit miracles] and [deceptive] signs and false wonders [all of them lies],