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Ezekiel 20:22

World English Bible

Nevertheless I withdrew my hand, and worked for my name’s sake, that it should not be profaned in the sight of the nations, in whose sight I brought them out.

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Ezekiel 20:22 in other translations

Nevertheless I withdrew my hand, and wrought for my name’s sake, that it should not be profaned in the sight of the nations, in whose sight I brought them forth.

Ezekiel 20:22 · American Standard Version

Ezekiel 20:22 in context

  1. 20Make my Sabbaths holy. They shall be a sign between me and you, that you may know that I am Yahweh your God.’
  2. 21“ ‘ “But the children rebelled against me. They didn’t walk in my statutes, and didn’t keep my ordinances to do them, which if a man does, he shall live in them. They profaned my Sabbaths. Then I said I would pour out my wrath on them, to accomplish my anger against them in the wilderness.
  3. 22Nevertheless I withdrew my hand, and worked for my name’s sake, that it should not be profaned in the sight of the nations, in whose sight I brought them out.
  4. 23Moreover I swore to them in the wilderness, that I would scatter them among the nations, and disperse them through the countries;
  5. 24because they had not executed my ordinances, but had rejected my statutes, and had profaned my Sabbaths, and their eyes were after their fathers’ idols.