Ezekiel 20:11

Amplified Bible

"I gave them My statutes and explained My ordinances to them, which, if a man keeps, he will live.

Parallel Translations

Christian Standard Bible®
Then I gave them my statutes and explained my ordinances to them—the person who does them will live by them.

Hebrew Names Version
I gave them my statutes, and shown them my ordinances, which if a man do, he shall live in them.

King James Version
And I gave them my statutes, and shewed them my judgments, which if a man do, he shall even live in them.

English Standard Version
I gave them my statutes and made known to them my rules, by which, if a person does them, he shall live.

New American Standard Bible
"I gave them My statutes and informed them of My ordinances, which, if a person follows them, then he will live by them.

New Century Version
I gave them my rules and told them about my laws, by which people will live if they obey them.

World English Bible
I gave them my statutes, and shown them my ordinances, which if a man do, he shall live in them.

Geneva Bible (1587)
And I gaue them my statutes, and declared my iudgements vnto them, which if a man doe, he shall liue in them.

New American Standard Bible (1995)
"I gave them My statutes and informed them of My ordinances, by which, if a man observes them, he will live.

Legacy Standard Bible
I gave them My statutes and made them know My judgments, which, if a man does them, he will live by them.

Berean Standard Bible
And I gave them My statutes and made known to them My ordinances-for the man who does these things will live by them.

Contemporary English Version
I gave them my laws and teachings, so they would know how to live right.

Complete Jewish Bible
I gave them my laws and showed them my rulings; if a person obeys them, he will have life through them.

Darby Translation
And I gave them my statutes, and made known unto them mine ordinances, which if a man do, he shall live by them.

Easy-to-Read Version
Then I gave them my laws and told them all my rules. All those who obey them will live.

George Lamsa Translation
And I gave them my commandments and showed them my judgments, which if a man do he shall live by them.

Good News Translation
I gave them my commands and taught them my laws, which bring life to anyone who obeys them.

Lexham English Bible
and I gave my statutes to them, and my regulations I made known to them, which, if a person does them, then he will live by them.

Literal Translation
And I gave them My statutes, and I made them know My judgments, which if a man does them, he will even live by them.

Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
I gaue them my commaundementes, & shewed the my lawes: which who so kepeth shal lyue in them.

American Standard Version
And I gave them my statutes, and showed them mine ordinances, which if a man do, he shall live in them.

Bible in Basic English
And I gave them my rules and made clear to them my orders, which, if a man keeps them, will be life to him.

JPS Old Testament (1917)
And I gave them My statutes, and taught them Mine ordinances, which if a man do, he shall live by them.

King James Version (1611)
And I gaue them my statutes, and shewed them my iudgements, which if a man doe, he shall euen liue in them.

Bishop's Bible (1568)
I gaue them my statutes, and shewed them my iudgementes: which whoso doeth, shall lyue in them.

Brenton's Septuagint (LXX)
And I gave them my commandments, and made known to them mine ordinances, all which if a man shall do, he shall even live in them.

English Revised Version
And I gave them my statutes, and shewed them my judgments, which if a man do, he shall live in them.

Wycliffe Bible (1395)
and Y yaf to hem my comaundementis, and Y schewide to hem my doomes, which a man schal do, and lyue in tho.

Update Bible Version
And I gave them my statutes, and showed them my ordinances, which if man does, he shall live in them.

Webster's Bible Translation
And I gave them my statutes, and showed them my judgments, which [if] a man doeth, he shall even live in them.

New English Translation
I gave them my statutes and revealed my regulations to them. The one who carries them out will live by them!

New King James Version
And I gave them My statutes and showed them My judgments, 'which, if a man does, he shall live by them.' Leviticus 18:5">[fn]

New Living Translation
There I gave them my decrees and regulations so they could find life by keeping them.

New Life Bible
I gave them My Laws and made known to them My Words, which bring life to anyone who obeys them.

New Revised Standard
I gave them my statutes and showed them my ordinances, by whose observance everyone shall live.

J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
Then gave I unto them my statutes, And my regulations, caused I them to know,- By the which the man that doeth them shall live.

Douay-Rheims Bible
And I gave them my statutes, and I shewed them my judgments, which if a man do, he shall live in them.

Revised Standard Version
I gave them my statutes and showed them my ordinances, by whose observance man shall live.

Young's Literal Translation
And I give to them My statutes, And my judgments I caused them to know, Which the man who doth -- liveth by them.

THE MESSAGE
"‘I gave them laws for living, showed them how to live well and obediently before me. I also gave them my weekly holy rest days, my "Sabbaths," a kind of signpost erected between me and them to show them that I, God , am in the business of making them holy.

Contextual Overview

¹⁰"So I made them leave the land of Egypt and brought them into the wilderness. ¹¹"I gave them My statutes and explained My ordinances to them, which, if a man keeps, he will live.¹²"Also I gave them My Sabbaths to be a sign between Me and them, that they might know [without any doubt] that I am the LORD who sanctifies them (separates and sets them apart). ¹³"But the house of Israel rebelled against Me in the wilderness. They did not walk in My statutes and they despised and rejected My ordinances, which, if a man keeps, he will live; and they greatly profaned My Sabbaths. Then I decided to pour out My wrath on them in the wilderness, to annihilate them. ¹⁴"But I acted for My Name's sake, that it would not be profaned in the sight of the [pagan] nations in whose sight I had brought them out [of slavery]. ¹⁵"I also swore to them in the wilderness that I would not bring them into the land which I had given them, [a land of plenty] flowing with milk and honey, which is the ornament and glory of all lands, ¹⁶because they rejected My ordinances, and as for My statutes, they did not walk in them; they even profaned My Sabbaths, for their heart continually went after their [worthless] idols. ¹⁷"Yet My eye [looked on them with compassion and] spared them instead of destroying them, and I did not annihilate them in the wilderness. ¹⁸"But I said to their children in the wilderness, 'Do not walk in the statutes of your fathers nor observe their ordinances nor defile yourselves with their idols. ¹⁹'I am the LORD your God; walk in My statutes and keep My ordinances and observe them.

Bible Verse Review
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I gave: Deuteronomy 4:8, Nehemiah 9:13, Nehemiah 9:14, Psalms 147:19, Psalms 147:20, Romans 3:2

showed them: Heb. made them to know

which: Ezekiel 20:13, Ezekiel 20:21, Leviticus 18:5, Deuteronomy 20:15, Deuteronomy 20:16, Luke 10:28, Romans 10:5, Galatians 3:12

Reciprocal: Exodus 21:1 - the judgments Deuteronomy 4:1 - that ye may Deuteronomy 5:31 - General Deuteronomy 6:25 - General Nehemiah 9:6 - thou hast Nehemiah 9:29 - which Ezekiel 18:9 - he shall Ezekiel 33:15 - walk Hosea 8:12 - written Matthew 19:17 - but Mark 12:1 - and set Romans 2:13 - For not Romans 7:10 - General Romans 9:4 - the giving

Cross-References

Genesis 12:12
so when the Egyptians see you, they will say, 'This is his wife'; and they will kill me [to acquire you], but they will let you live.

Genesis 20:1
Now Abraham journeyed from there toward the Negev (the South country), and settled between Kadesh and Shur; then he lived temporarily in Gerar.

Genesis 20:4
Now Abimelech had not yet come near her; so he said, "Lord, will you kill a people who are righteous and innocent and blameless [regarding Sarah]?

Genesis 22:12
The LORD said, "Do not reach out [with the knife in] your hand against the boy, and do nothing to [harm] him; for now I know that you fear God [with reverence and profound respect], since you have not withheld from Me your son, your only son [of promise]."

Genesis 26:7
The men of the place asked him about his wife, and he said, "She is my sister," for he was afraid to say, "my wife"—thinking, "the men of the place might kill me on account of Rebekah, since she is very beautiful."

Genesis 42:18
Now Joseph said to them on the third day, "Do this and [you may] live, for I fear God:

Nehemiah 5:15
But the former governors who were [in office] before me put heavy burdens on the people and took food and wine from them in addition to forty shekels of silver [as an excessive monthly salary]; even their servants assumed authority over the people. But I did not do so because of the [reverent] fear of God.

Job 1:1
There was a man in the land of Uz whose name was Job; and that man was blameless and upright, and one who feared God [with reverence] and abstained from and turned away from evil [because he honored God].

Job 28:28
"But to man He said, 'Behold, the reverential and worshipful fear of the Lord—that is wisdom; And to depart from evil is understanding.'"

Psalms 14:4
Have all the workers of wickedness and injustice no knowledge, Who eat up my people as they eat bread, And do not call upon the LORD?

Gill's Notes on the Bible

And I gave them my statutes,.... The precepts of his law, the law on Mount Sinai, of which there were not the like among other nations; nor were they given unto them, but were a special gift unto Israel, and greatly to be valued, Deuteronomy 4:8;

and showed them judgments: the nature, use, and excellency of the the necessity and advantage of observing them: the same as before, called "statutes", because appointed, fixed, and certain, being of inviolable and lasting obligation; and "judgments", being according to strict justice and equity: these, though they were originally written on man's heart, yet so obliterated by sin that there was need not only of their being afresh written and published, but of their being taught and made known; or of pointing out the use of them, and obligation to them:

which [if] a man do, he shall live in them; or "by them" g; in the land of Canaan, enjoying all the blessings of a long and happy life: reference seems to be had to Leviticus 18:5. The Targum adds,

"in eternal life;''

but eternal life is not to be obtained by the works of the law, since no man can perfectly obey or fulfil it, but is the pure gift of the grace of God.

g בהם "per ea", Junius Tremellius, Polanus, Piscator "propter ea", Pagninus.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

The probation in the wilderness. The promise was forfeited by those to whom it was first conditionally made, but was renewed to their children.

Ezekiel 20:11

The “statutes” were given on Mount Sinai, and repeated by Moses before his death (Exodus 20:1 ff; Deuteronomy 4:8).

In them - Or, through them: and in Ezekiel 20:13.

Ezekiel 20:12

See Exodus 31:13. The Sabbath was a sign of a special people, commemorative of the work of creation, and hallowed to the honor of Yahweh, the covenant-God. As man honored God by keeping the Sabbath holy, so by the Sabbath, God “sanctified” Israel and marked them as a holy people. Therefore to profane the Sabbath was to abjure their Divine Governor.

Ezekiel 20:13

My sabbaths they greatly polluted - Not by actual non-observance of the sabbatical rest in the wilderness, but in failing to make the day holy in deed as well as in name by earnest worship and true heart service.

Ezekiel 20:18

The book of Deuteronomy contains the address to “the children” of those who perished in the wilderness. The whole history of Israel was a repetition of this course. The covenant was made with one generation, broken by them, and then renewed to the next.

Ezekiel 20:25

The “judgments whereby they should not live” are those spoken of in Ezekiel 20:18, and are contrasted with the judgments in Ezekiel 20:13, Ezekiel 20:21, laws other than divine, to which God gives up those whom He afflicts with judicial blindness, because they have willfully closed their eyes, Psalms 81:12; Romans 1:24.

Ezekiel 20:26

To pass through - The word also means to “set apart,” as the firstborn to the Lord Exodus 13:12. They were bidden to “set apart” their firstborn males to the Lord. They “caused them to pass through the fire” to Moloch. An instance of their perversion of God’s laws.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse Ezekiel 20:11. I gave them my statutes — I showed them what they should do in order to be safe, comfortable, wise, and happy; and what they should avoid in order to be uninjured in body, mind, and possessions. Had they attended to these things, they should have lived by them. They would have been holy, healthy, and happy.