On that day I swore[a] to them that I would bring them out(A) of the land of Egypt into a land I had searched out for them, a land flowing with milk and honey,(B) the most beautiful of all lands.(C) I also said to them, “Throw away, each of you, the abhorrent things that you prize,[b] and do not defile yourselves with the idols of Egypt.(D) I am the Lord your God.”(E)

“‘But they rebelled against me and were unwilling to listen to me. None of them threw away the abhorrent things that they prized,[c] and they did not abandon the idols of Egypt. So I considered pouring out my wrath on them,(F) exhausting my anger against them within the land of Egypt.

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Footnotes

  1. 20:6 Lit lifted my hand, also in vv. 15,23,28,42
  2. 20:7 Lit things of your eyes
  3. 20:8 Lit things of their eyes

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