Ezekiel 20:7 “And I said to them: ‘Each of you must throw away the abominations befo…”

Ezekiel 20:7

And I said to them: ‘Each of you must throw away the abominations before his eyes, and you must not defile yourselves with the idols of Egypt. I am the LORD your God.’

Berean Standard Bible

Other translations

King James Version

Then said I unto them, Cast ye away every man the abominations of his eyes, and defile not yourselves with the idols of Egypt: I am the LORD your God.

World English Bible

I said to them, ‘Each of you throw away the abominations of his eyes. Don’t defile yourselves with the idols of Egypt. I am the LORD your God.’

American Standard Version

And I said unto them, Cast ye away every man the abominations of his eyes, and defile not yourselves with the idols of Egypt; I am Jehovah your God.

Geneva Bible 1599

Then sayd I vnto them, Let euery man cast away the abominations of his eyes, and defile not your selues with the idols of Egypt: for I am the Lord your God.

Darby Translation

and I said unto them, Cast ye away every man the abominations of his eyes, and defile not yourselves with the idols of Egypt: I [am] Jehovah your God.

Young's Literal Translation

And I say unto them, Let each cast away the detestable things of his eyes, And with the idols of Egypt be not defiled, I [am] Jehovah your God.

Bible in Basic English

And I said to them, Let every man among you put away the disgusting things to which his eyes are turned, and do not make yourselves unclean with the images of Egypt; I am the Lord your God.

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Cross references

“Cast”

Ezekiel 20:8 Ezekiel 18:31 Ezekiel 18:6 Ezekiel 18:15 Isaiah 31:7 Isaiah 2:20

Ezekiel 20:8 · BSB

But they rebelled against Me and refused to listen. None of them cast away the abominations before their eyes, and they did not forsake the idols of Egypt. So I resolved to pour out My wrath upon them and vent My anger a…

Ezekiel 18:31 · BSB

Cast away from yourselves all the transgressions you have committed, and fashion for yourselves a new heart and a new spirit. Why should you die, O house of Israel?

Ezekiel 18:6 · BSB

He does not eat at the mountain or look to the idols of the house of Israel. He does not defile his neighbor’s wife or approach a woman during her period.

Ezekiel 18:15 · BSB

He does not eat at the mountain or look to the idols of the house of Israel. He does not defile his neighbor’s wife.

Isaiah 31:7 · BSB

For on that day, every one of you will reject the idols of silver and gold that your own hands have sinfully made.

Isaiah 2:20 · BSB

In that day men will cast away to the moles and bats their idols of silver and gold— the idols they made to worship.

“the abominations”

Ezekiel 6:9 Ezekiel 14:6 2 Chronicles 15:8

Ezekiel 6:9 · BSB

Then in the nations to which they have been carried captive, your survivors will remember Me—how I have been grieved by their adulterous hearts that turned away from Me, and by their eyes that lusted after idols. So they…

Ezekiel 14:6 · BSB

Therefore tell the house of Israel that this is what the Lord GOD says: ‘Repent and turn away from your idols; turn your faces away from all your abominations.

2 Chronicles 15:8 · BSB

When Asa heard these words and the prophecy of Azariah son of Oded the prophet, he took courage and removed the detestable idols from the whole land of Judah and Benjamin and from the cities he had captured in the hill c…

“defile”

Leviticus 18:3 Deuteronomy 29:16–18 Ezekiel 23:3 Ezekiel 23:8 Leviticus 17:7 Joshua 24:14

Leviticus 18:3 · BSB

You must not follow the practices of the land of Egypt, where you used to live, and you must not follow the practices of the land of Canaan, into which I am bringing you. You must not walk in their customs.

Deuteronomy 29:16–18 · BSB

For you yourselves know how we lived in the land of Egypt and how we passed through the nations on the way here.

Ezekiel 23:3 · BSB

and they played in Egypt, prostituting themselves from their youth. Their breasts were fondled there, and their virgin bosoms caressed.

Ezekiel 23:8 · BSB

She did not give up the prostitution she began in Egypt, when men slept with her in her youth, caressed her virgin bosom, and poured out their lust upon her.

Leviticus 17:7 · BSB

They must no longer offer their sacrifices to the goat demons to which they have prostituted themselves. This will be a permanent statute for them for the generations to come.’

Joshua 24:14 · BSB

Now, therefore, fear the LORD and serve Him in sincerity and truth; cast aside the gods your fathers served beyond the Euphrates and in Egypt, and serve the LORD.

“I am”

Leviticus 11:44 Ezekiel 20:19 Exodus 16:12 Leviticus 20:7

Leviticus 11:44 · BSB

For I am the LORD your God; consecrate yourselves, therefore, and be holy, because I am holy. You must not defile yourselves by any creature that crawls along the ground.

Ezekiel 20:19 · BSB

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

Exodus 16:12 · BSB

“I have heard the grumbling of the Israelites. Tell them, ‘At twilight you will eat meat, and in the morning you will be filled with bread. Then you will know that I am the LORD your God.’”

Leviticus 20:7 · BSB

Consecrate yourselves, therefore, and be holy, because I am the LORD your God.

Also

Exodus 20:2 Exodus 20:4

Exodus 20:2 · BSB

“I am the LORD your God, who brought you out of the land of Egypt, out of the house of slavery.

Exodus 20:4 · BSB

You shall not make for yourself an idol in the form of anything in the heavens above, on the earth below, or in the waters beneath.

Cross references adapted from OpenBible.info (CC BY 4.0) and the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.

In context

6On that day I swore to bring them out of the land of Egypt into a land that I had searched out for them, a land flowing with milk and honey, the glory of all lands.

8But they rebelled against Me and refused to listen. None of them cast away the abominations before their eyes, and they did not forsake the idols of Egypt. So I resolved to pour out My wrath upon them and vent My anger against them in the land of Egypt.

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