Ezekiel 20:11

Bishop's Bible

I gaue them my statutes, and shewed them my iudgementes: which whoso doeth, shall lyue in them.

Parallel Translations

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

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

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.

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

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.

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

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.

World English Bible
I gave them my statutes, and shown them my ordinances, 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.

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

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

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 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.

Contextual Overview

¹⁰ Nowe when I had caused them to go out of the lande of Egypt, and brought them into the wildernesse: ¹¹ I gaue them my statutes, and shewed them my iudgementes: which whoso doeth, shall lyue in them. ¹² I gaue them also my Sabbath dayes to be a token betwixt me and them, and therby to knowe that I am the Lorde which halowe them. ¹³ And yet the house of Israel rebelled agaynst me in the wildernesse, they woulde not walke in my statutes, they haue cast away my iudgementes, which whoso doth shall lyue in them, and my Sabbath dayes haue they greatly polluted: then I sayde, I woulde powre out mine indignation vpon them, and consume them in the wildernesse. ¹⁴ And I wrought for my names sake, lest it shoulde be defiled before the heathen, in whose sight I brought them out. ¹⁵ Yet neuerthelesse I lift vp my hande vnto them in the wildernesse, that I woulde not bring them into the lande which I gaue them, that floweth with mylke and hony, and is a pleasure of all landes: ¹⁶ And that because they cast away my iudgementes and walked not in my statutes: but haue defiled my Sabbathes: for their heart was gone after their idols. ¹⁷ Neuerthelesse mine eye spared them, so that I woulde not destroy them, nor consume them in the wildernesse. ¹⁸ Moreouer, I sayde vnto their sonnes in the wildernesse, Walke not in the statutes of your fathers, kepe not their iudgementes, and defile not your selues with their idols. ¹⁹ I am the Lord your God, walke in my statutes, kepe my iudgementes, & do the.

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
Therfore shall it come to passe, that when the Egyptians see thee, they shall say, she is his wyfe, and they wyll kyll me, but they wyll saue thee aliue:

Genesis 20:1
And Abraham departed thence towarde the south countrey, & dwelled betweene Cades and Sur, and soiourned in Gerar.

Genesis 20:4
But Abimelech had not yet touched her: and he sayde, Lorde wylt thou slay ryghteous people?

Genesis 22:12
And he sayde: lay not thy hande vpon the chylde, neyther do any thyng vnto hym, for nowe I knowe that thou fearest God, & hast for my sake not spared [yea] thine onlye sonne.

Genesis 26:7
And the men of the place asked [him] of his wyfe. And he sayde, she is my sister: for he feared to say, she is my wyfe, lest the men of the place shoulde haue kylled hym, because of Rebecca, whiche was beautifull to the eye.

Genesis 42:18
And Ioseph said vnto them the thirde day: this do & liue, [for] I feare God.

Nehemiah 5:15
For the olde captaynes that were before me, had ben chargeable vnto the people, and had taken of them bread & wine, beside fouretie sicles of siluer, yea and their seruauntes had oppressed the people: But so did not I, and that because of the feare of God.

Job 1:1
In the lande of Hus there was a man whose name was Iob, & the same was a perfect and iust man, one that feared God and eschued euill.

Job 28:28
And vnto man he sayd: To feare the Lorde is wysdome, and to forsake euyll is vnderstanding.

Psalms 14:4
Do not all the workers of iniquitie know, deuouryng my people as though they deuoured bread: that they call not vpon God?

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.