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Ezekiel 20:21-23
New English Translation

21 But the children[a] rebelled against me, did not follow my statutes, did not observe my regulations by carrying them out (the one who obeys[b] them will live by them), and desecrated my Sabbaths. I decided to pour out[c] my rage on them and fully vent my anger against them in the wilderness. 22 But I refrained from doing so[d] and acted instead for the sake of my reputation, so that I would not be profaned before the nations in whose sight I had brought them out. 23 I also swore[e] to them in the wilderness that I would scatter them among the nations and disperse them throughout the lands.[f]

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  1. Ezekiel 20:21 tn Heb “sons.”
  2. Ezekiel 20:21 tn Or “carries them out.”
  3. Ezekiel 20:21 tn Heb “and I said/thought to pour out.”
  4. Ezekiel 20:22 tn Heb “drew my hand back.” This idiom also occurs in Lam 2:8 and Ps 74:11.
  5. Ezekiel 20:23 tn Heb “I lifted up my hand.”
  6. Ezekiel 20:23 sn 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.
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