Ezekiel 20:19

New Life Version

I am the Lord your God. Keep My Laws and obey My Words.

Parallel Translations

Christian Standard Bible®
I am the Lord your God. Follow my statutes, keep my ordinances, and practice them.

Hebrew Names Version
I am the LORD your God: walk in my statutes, and keep my ordinances, and do them;

King James Version
I am the Lord your God; walk in my statutes, and keep my judgments, and do them;

English Standard Version
I am the Lord your God; walk in my statutes, and be careful to obey my rules,

New American Standard Bible
'I am the LORD your God; walk in My statutes and keep My ordinances and follow them.

New Century Version
I am the Lord your God. Live by my rules, obey my laws, and follow them.

Amplified Bible
'I am the LORD your God; walk in My statutes and keep My ordinances and observe them.

World English Bible
I am Yahweh your God: walk in my statutes, and keep my ordinances, and do them;

Geneva Bible (1587)
I am the Lord your God: walke in my statutes, and keepe my iudgements and doe them,

New American Standard Bible (1995)
'I am the LORD your God; walk in My statutes and keep My ordinances and observe them.

Legacy Standard Bible
I am Yahweh your God; walk in My statutes and keep My judgments and do them.

Berean Standard Bible
I am the LORD your God; walk in My statutes, keep My ordinances, and practice them.

Contemporary English Version
I reminded them that I was the Lord their God and that they should obey my laws and teachings.

Complete Jewish Bible
I am Adonai your God; live by my laws, observe my rulings, and obey them,

Darby Translation
I [am] Jehovah your God: walk in my statutes, and keep mine ordinances, and do them;

Easy-to-Read Version
I am the Lord . I am your God. Obey my laws and keep my commands. Do the things I tell you.

George Lamsa Translation
I am the LORD your God; walk in my statutes and keep my judgments and do them:

Good News Translation
I am the Lord your God. Obey my laws and my commands.

Lexham English Bible
I, Yahweh, am your God, so go in my statutes and keep my regulations and do them.

Literal Translation
I am Jehovah your God, walk in My statutes, and keep My judgments, and do them.

Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
for I am the LORDE youre God. But walke in my statutes, kepe my lawes & do them,

American Standard Version
I am Jehovah your God: walk in my statutes, and keep mine ordinances, and do them;

Bible in Basic English
I am the Lord your God; be guided by my rules and keep my orders and do them:

JPS Old Testament (1917)
I am the LORD your God; walk in My statutes, and keep Mine ordinances, and do them;

King James Version (1611)
I am the Lord your God: walke in my statutes, and keepe my iudgements and doe them:

Bishop's Bible (1568)
I am the Lord your God, walke in my statutes, kepe my iudgementes, & do the.

Brenton's Septuagint (LXX)
I am the Lord your God; walk in my commandments, and keep mine ordinances, and do them;

English Revised Version
I am the LORD your God; walk in my statutes, and keep my judgments, and do them:

Wycliffe Bible (1395)
Y am youre Lord God, go ye in my comaundementis, and kepe ye my domes, and do ye tho.

Update Bible Version
I am Yahweh your God: walk in my statutes, and keep my ordinances, and do them;

Webster's Bible Translation
I [am] the LORD your God; walk in my statutes, and keep my judgments, and do them;

New English Translation
I am the Lord your God; follow my statutes, observe my regulations, and carry them out.

New King James Version
I am the LORD your God: Walk in My statutes, keep My judgments, and do them;

New Living Translation
‘I am the Lord your God,' I told them. ‘Follow my decrees, pay attention to my regulations,

New Revised Standard
I the Lord am your God; follow my statutes, and be careful to observe my ordinances,

J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
I, Yahweh, am your God, In my statutes, walk ye, - And my regulations, observe ye and do them;

Douay-Rheims Bible
I am the Lord your God: walk ye in my statutes, and observe my judgments, and do them.

Revised Standard Version
I the LORD am your God; walk in my statutes, and be careful to observe my ordinances,

Young's Literal Translation
I [am] Jehovah your God, in My statutes walk, And My judgments observe, and do them,

Contextual Overview

¹⁰ So I led them out of the land of Egypt and brought them into the desert. ¹¹ I gave them My Laws and made known to them My Words, which bring life to anyone who obeys them. ¹² I gave them My Days of Rest to be something special to see between Me and them, so they would know that I am the Lord Who makes them holy. ¹³ But the people of Israel turned against Me in the desert. They did not obey My Laws, and they turned away from My Words which bring life to anyone who obeys them. They made My Days of Rest very sinful. Then I said that I would be angry with them in the desert and destroy them. ¹⁴ But I acted for the good of My name. I did what would keep My name clean in the eyes of the nations who saw Me bring them out of Egypt. ¹⁵ So I promised them in the desert that I would not bring them into the land I had given them, the land flowing with milk and honey, the most beautiful of all lands. ¹⁶ This was because they turned away from My Laws and did not obey My Words. They did not keep My Days of Rest holy, for they followed after their false gods with all their heart. ¹⁷ Yet I looked on them with pity and did not destroy them. I did not make an end of them in the desert. ¹⁸ "And I said to their children in the desert, ‘Do not keep the laws of your fathers, or follow their ways, or make yourselves sinful with their false gods. ¹⁹ I am the Lord your God. Keep My Laws and obey My Words.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

the Lord: Exodus 20:2, Exodus 20:3, Deuteronomy 5:6, Deuteronomy 5:7, Deuteronomy 7:4-6, Psalms 81:9, Psalms 81:10, Jeremiah 3:22, Jeremiah 3:23

walk: Ezekiel 11:20, Ezekiel 36:27, Ezekiel 37:24, Deuteronomy 4:1, Deuteronomy 5:1, Deuteronomy 5:32, Deuteronomy 5:33, Deuteronomy 6:1 - Deuteronomy 8:20, Deuteronomy 10:1 - Deuteronomy 12:32, Nehemiah 9:13, Nehemiah 9:14, Psalms 19:7-11, Psalms 105:45, Titus 2:11-14

Reciprocal: Leviticus 18:2 - General Leviticus 18:4 - General 1 Kings 15:12 - all the idols Psalms 50:7 - I am Psalms 89:30 - walk Ezekiel 20:7 - I am

Gill's Notes on the Bible

I [am] the Lord your God,.... Not only that had made them and preserved them, but had chose them above all people to be his people; who had made a covenant with them, and had distinguished them by his favours from all others:

walk in my statutes, and keep my judgments, and do them; which he had given unto their fathers, and they had neglected and despised; those contained in the decalogue, and in the whole book of Deuteronomy, and elsewhere,

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.