Ezekiel 20:5-7
1599 Geneva Bible
5 And say unto them, Thus saith the Lord God, In the day when I chose Israel, and [a]lifted up mine hand unto the seed of the house of Jacob, and made myself known unto them in the land of Egypt, when I lift up mine hand unto them, and said, I am the Lord your God,
6 In the day that I lifted up mine hand unto them, to bring them forth of the land of Egypt, into a land that I had provided for them, flowing with milk and honey, which is pleasant among all lands,
7 Then said I unto them, Let every man cast away the abominations of his eyes, [b]and defile not yourselves with the idols of Egypt: for I am the Lord your God.
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- Ezekiel 20:5 I sware that I would be their God, which manner of oath was observed from all antiquity, where they used to lift up their hands toward the heaven, acknowledging God to be the author of truth, and the defender thereof, and also the Judge of the heart, wishing that he should take vengeance, if they concealed anything which they knew to be truth.
- Ezekiel 20:7 God had forbidden them to make mention of the idols, Exod. 23:13; Ps. 16:4.
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