Ezekiel 20:16

Israel’s Rebellion in the Wilderness

15Moreover, with an uplifted hand I swore to them in the wilderness that I would not bring them into the land that I had given them—a land flowing with milk and honey, the glory of all lands—16because they kept rejecting My ordinances, refusing to walk in My statutes, and profaning My Sabbaths; for their hearts continually went after their idols.17Yet I looked on them with pity and did not destroy them or bring them to an end in the wilderness.

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Berean Standard Bible
because they kept rejecting My ordinances, refusing to walk in My statutes, and profaning My Sabbaths; for their hearts continually went after their idols.
American Standard Version (1901)
because they rejected mine ordinances, and walked not in my statutes, and profaned my sabbaths: for their heart went after their idols.
Bible in Basic English
Because they were turned away from my orders, and were not guided by my rules, and had no respect for my Sabbaths: for their hearts went after their images.
Douay-Rheims 1899
Because they cast off my judgments, and walked not in my statutes, and violated my sabbaths: for their heart went after idols.
Free Bible Version
because they repeatedly rejected my regulations, refused to observe my laws, and violated my Sabbaths, and because they chose to continue worshiping idols.
King James (Authorized) Version
Because they despised my judgments, and walked not in my statutes, but polluted my sabbaths: for their heart went after their idols.
Translation for Translators
The reason that I promised that was because they rejected and disobeyed all my laws [DOU] and ◄desecrated/refused to rest on► the Sabbath days. They did that because they [SYN] were devoted toworshiping their idols.
Unlocked Literal Bible
I swore this because they had rejected my decrees and did not walk in my statutes, and they profaned my Sabbaths, since their hearts walked after their idols.
Noah Webster Bible
Because they despised my judgments, and walked not in my statutes, but profaned my sabbaths: for their heart went after their idols.
World English Bible
because they rejected my ordinances, and didn’t walk in my statutes, and profaned my Sabbaths; for their heart went after their idols.
Young's Literal Translation
Because against My judgments they did kick, And in My statutes they have not walked, And My sabbaths they have polluted, For after their idols their heart is going.