Ezekiel 20:10

THE MESSAGE

Parallel Translations

Christian Standard Bible®
“‘So I brought them out of the land of Egypt and led them into the wilderness.

Hebrew Names Version
So I caused them to go forth out of the land of Mitzrayim, and brought them into the wilderness.

King James Version
Wherefore I caused them to go forth out of the land of Egypt, and brought them into the wilderness.

English Standard Version
So I led them out of the land of Egypt and brought them into the wilderness.

New American Standard Bible
"So I took them out of the land of Egypt and brought them into the wilderness.

New Century Version
So I took them out of Egypt and brought them into the desert.

Amplified Bible
"So I made them leave the land of Egypt and brought them into the wilderness.

World English Bible
So I caused them to go forth out of the land of Egypt, and brought them into the wilderness.

Geneva Bible (1587)
Nowe I caried them out of the land of Egypt, and brought them into the wildernes.

New American Standard Bible (1995)
"So I took them out of the land of Egypt and brought them into the wilderness.

Legacy Standard Bible
So I took them out of the land of Egypt and brought them into the wilderness.

Berean Standard Bible
So I brought them out of Egypt and led them into the wilderness.

Contemporary English Version
So I brought them out and led them into the desert.

Complete Jewish Bible
So I had them leave the land of Egypt and brought them into the desert.

Darby Translation
And I caused them to go forth out of the land of Egypt, and brought them into the wilderness.

Easy-to-Read Version
I brought the family of Israel out of Egypt. I led them into the desert.

George Lamsa Translation
Wherefore I brought them forth out of the land of Egypt and brought them into the wilderness.

Good News Translation
"And so I led them out of Egypt into the desert.

Lexham English Bible
And I brought them out from the land of Egypt, and I brought them to the desert,

Literal Translation
I caused them to go out from the land of Egypt, and brought them into the wilderness.

Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
Now when I had caried them out of the londe of Egipte, and brought them into the wildernesse:

American Standard Version
So I caused them to go forth out of the land of Egypt, and brought them into the wilderness.

Bible in Basic English
So I made them go out of the land of Egypt and took them into the waste land.

JPS Old Testament (1917)
So I caused them to go forth out of the land of Egypt, and brought them into the wilderness.

King James Version (1611)
Wherefore I caused them to goe foorth out of the land of Egypt, and brought them into the wildernesse.

Bishop's Bible (1568)
Nowe when I had caused them to go out of the lande of Egypt, and brought them into the wildernesse:

Brenton's Septuagint (LXX)
And I brought them into the wilderness.

English Revised Version
So I caused them to go forth out of the land of Egypt, and brought them into the wilderness.

Wycliffe Bible (1395)
Therfor Y castide hem out of the lond of Egipt, and Y ledde hem out in to desert;

Update Bible Version
So I caused them to go forth out of the land of Egypt, and brought them into the wilderness.

Webster's Bible Translation
Wherefore I caused them to go forth from the land of Egypt, and brought them into the wilderness.

New English Translation
"‘So I brought them out of the land of Egypt and led them to the wilderness.

New King James Version
"Therefore I made them go out of the land of Egypt and brought them into the wilderness.

New Living Translation
So I brought them out of Egypt and led them into the wilderness.

New Life Bible
So I led them out of the land of Egypt and brought them into the desert.

New Revised Standard
So I led them out of the land of Egypt and brought them into the wilderness.

J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
Therefore brought I them forth out of the land of Egypt, - and caused them to come into the desert.

Douay-Rheims Bible
Therefore I brought them out from the land of Egypt, and brought them into the desert.

Revised Standard Version
So I led them out of the land of Egypt and brought them into the wilderness.

Young's Literal Translation
And I bring them out of the land of Egypt, And I bring them in unto the wilderness,

Contextual Overview

¹¹"‘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. ¹³"‘But Israel rebelled against me in the desert. They didn't follow my statutes. They despised my laws for living well and obediently in the ways I had set out. And they totally desecrated my holy Sabbaths. I seriously considered unleashing my anger on them right there in the desert. But I thought better of it and acted out of who I was, not by what I felt, so that I might be honored and not blasphemed by the nations who had seen me bring them out. But I did lift my hand in a solemn oath there in the desert and promise them that I would not bring them into the country flowing with milk and honey that I had chosen for them, that jewel among all lands. I canceled my promise because they despised my laws for living obediently, wouldn't follow my statutes, and went ahead and desecrated my holy Sabbaths. They preferred living by their no-god idols. But I didn't go all the way: I didn't wipe them out, didn't finish them off in the desert. ¹⁸"‘Then I addressed myself to their children in the desert: "Don't do what your parents did. Don't take up their practices. Don't make yourselves filthy with their no-god idols. I myself am God , your God: Keep my statutes and live by my laws. Keep my Sabbaths as holy rest days, signposts between me and you, signaling that I am God , your God." ²¹"‘But the children also rebelled against me. They neither followed my statutes nor kept my laws for living upright and well. And they desecrated my Sabbaths. I seriously considered dumping my anger on them, right there in the desert. But I thought better of it and acted out of who I was, not by what I felt, so that I might be honored and not blasphemed by the nations who had seen me bring them out. ²³"‘But I did lift my hand in solemn oath there in the desert, and swore that I would scatter them all over the world, disperse them every which way because they didn't keep my laws nor live by my statutes. They desecrated my Sabbaths and remained addicted to the no-god idols of their parents. Since they were determined to live bad lives, I myself gave them statutes that could not produce goodness and laws that did not produce life. I abandoned them. Filthy in the gutter, they perversely sacrificed their firstborn children in the fire. The very horror should have shocked them into recognizing that I am God .'

Bible Verse Review
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Exodus 13:17, Exodus 13:18, Exodus 14:17-22, Exodus 15:22, Exodus 20:2

Reciprocal: 1 Chronicles 17:21 - make thee Hosea 2:14 - and bring Amos 2:10 - I brought Acts 13:18 - about

Gill's Notes on the Bible

Wherefore I caused them to go forth out of the land of Egypt,.... It was the Lord that brought them out from thence with a mighty hand and outstretched arm; that obliged Pharaoh to let them go, and gave them favour in the eyes of the Egyptians, that they went out unmolested by them:

and brought them into the wilderness; before they went into the land of Canaan; here they had freedom from their bondage, and were in a wonderful manner provided for by the Lord, guided, supported, preserved, and at last brought to the promised land.

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 20:10. I caused them to go forth — Though greatly oppressed and degraded, they were not willing to leave their house of bondage. I was obliged to force them away.