Parallel Verses
- New International Reader's Version - The people made themselves impure by what they had done. They weren’t faithful to the Lord.
- 新标点和合本 - 这样，他们被自己所做的污秽了， 在行为上犯了邪淫。
- 和合本2010（上帝版-简体） - 这样，他们被自己所做的玷污了， 在行为上犯了淫乱。
- 和合本2010（神版-简体） - 这样，他们被自己所做的玷污了， 在行为上犯了淫乱。
- 当代译本 - 他们的行为玷污了自己， 所作所为使自己沦为淫妇。
- 圣经新译本 - 这样，他们因自己所作的成了不洁， 他们的行为使他们犯了邪淫。
- 中文标准译本 - 那时他们因自己所做的被玷污， 在自己的行为上犯了奸淫。
- 现代标点和合本 - 这样，他们被自己所做的污秽了， 在行为上犯了邪淫。
- 和合本（拼音版） - 这样，他们被自己所作的污秽了， 在行为上犯了邪淫。
- New International Version - They defiled themselves by what they did; by their deeds they prostituted themselves.
- English Standard Version - Thus they became unclean by their acts, and played the whore in their deeds.
- New Living Translation - They defiled themselves by their evil deeds, and their love of idols was adultery in the Lord’s sight.
- Christian Standard Bible - They defiled themselves by their actions and prostituted themselves by their deeds.
- New American Standard Bible - So they became unclean in their practices, And were unfaithful in their deeds.
- New King James Version - Thus they were defiled by their own works, And played the harlot by their own deeds.
- Amplified Bible - In this way they became unclean in their practices; They played the prostitute in their own deeds [by giving their worship, which belongs to God alone, to other “gods”].
- American Standard Version - Thus were they defiled with their works, And played the harlot in their doings.
- King James Version - Thus were they defiled with their own works, and went a whoring with their own inventions.
- New English Translation - They were defiled by their deeds, and unfaithful in their actions.
- World English Bible - Thus they were defiled with their works, and prostituted themselves in their deeds.
- 新標點和合本 - 這樣，他們被自己所做的污穢了， 在行為上犯了邪淫。
- 和合本2010（上帝版-繁體） - 這樣，他們被自己所做的玷污了， 在行為上犯了淫亂。
- 和合本2010（神版-繁體） - 這樣，他們被自己所做的玷污了， 在行為上犯了淫亂。
- 當代譯本 - 他們的行為玷污了自己， 所作所為使自己淪為淫婦。
- 聖經新譯本 - 這樣，他們因自己所作的成了不潔， 他們的行為使他們犯了邪淫。
- 呂振中譯本 - 這樣他們就因所作的 而蒙不潔， 也以 惡 行為 而變節 事奉別的神 了。
- 中文標準譯本 - 那時他們因自己所做的被玷汙， 在自己的行為上犯了姦淫。
- 現代標點和合本 - 這樣，他們被自己所做的汙穢了， 在行為上犯了邪淫。
- 文理和合譯本 - 緣其所行自污、所為徇欲兮、
- 文理委辦譯本 - 狥私欲、作惡事、偏多穢行兮、
- 施約瑟淺文理新舊約聖經 - 彼所作者污穢己身、所行者淫從偶像、
- 吳經熊文理聖詠與新經全集 - 穢氣沖天。邪淫實多。
- Nueva Versión Internacional - Tales hechos los contaminaron; tales acciones los corrompieron.
- 현대인의 성경 - 그들은 더러운 행위로 자신을 더럽혔으며 우상을 섬김으로 창녀짓을 하였다.
- Новый Русский Перевод - Но когда народ убывает, когда он унижен из-за угнетения, бедствия и скорби,
- Восточный перевод - Но когда народ убывает, когда он унижен из-за угнетения, бедствия и скорби,
- Восточный перевод, версия с «Аллахом» - Но когда народ убывает, когда он унижен из-за угнетения, бедствия и скорби,
- Восточный перевод, версия для Таджикистана - Но когда народ убывает, когда он унижен из-за угнетения, бедствия и скорби,
- La Bible du Semeur 2015 - Par leurs pratiques, ils se sont rendus impurs, ils se sont prostitués par leurs actes .
- リビングバイブル - 偶像を愛することは、 神の目から見れば姦淫の罪であり、 自分自身を汚すことになりました。
- Nova Versão Internacional - Tornaram-se impuros pelos seus atos; prostituíram-se por suas ações.
- Hoffnung für alle - Durch ihre bösen Taten wurden sie unrein in Gottes Augen – mit ihrem Treiben brachen sie ihm die Treue.
- Kinh Thánh Hiện Đại - Chăm điều ác nên toàn dân nhơ nhuốc, lầm lạc tà dâm với tà thần.
- พระคริสตธรรมคัมภีร์ไทย ฉบับอมตธรรมร่วมสมัย - พวกเขาทำตัวให้แปดเปื้อนมลทินด้วยสิ่งที่พวกเขาทำ ด้วยพฤติกรรมเยี่ยงโสเภณี
- พระคัมภีร์ ฉบับแปลใหม่ - พวกเขาจึงไม่ใช่คนบริสุทธิ์เนื่องจากสิ่งที่ตัวเองกระทำ และความประพฤติของเขาเป็นเช่นของหญิงแพศยา
Cross Reference
- Isaiah 59:3 - Your hands and fingers are stained with blood. You are guilty of committing murder. Your mouth has told lies. Your tongue says evil things.
- Jeremiah 3:1 - “Suppose a man divorces his wife. What if she then marries another man? Should her first husband return to her again? If he does, won’t the land become completely ‘unclean’? People of Israel, you have lived like a prostitute. You have loved many other gods. So do you think you can return to me now?” announces the Lord.
- Jeremiah 3:2 - “Look up at the bare hilltops. Is there any place where you have not worshiped other gods? You have been unfaithful to me like a wife committing adultery. By the side of the road you sat waiting for lovers. You sat there like someone who wanders in the desert. You have made the land impure. You are like a sinful prostitute.
- Ezekiel 16:15 - “ ‘ “But you trusted in your beauty. You used your fame to become a prostitute. You offered your body freely to anyone who passed by. In fact, you gave yourself to anyone who wanted you.
- Ezekiel 16:16 - You used some of your clothes to make high places colorful. That is where people worshiped other gods. You were a prostitute there. You went to your lover and he took your beauty.
- Ezekiel 16:17 - I had given you fine jewelry. It was made out of gold and silver. You used it to make for yourself statues of male gods. You worshiped those gods. You were not faithful to me.
- Ezekiel 16:18 - You put your beautiful clothes on them. You offered my oil and incense to them.
- Ezekiel 16:19 - You also offered them food. It was made out of olive oil, honey and the finest flour. I had given it to you to eat. You offered it as sweet-smelling incense to them. That is what you did,” announces the Lord and King.
- Ezekiel 16:20 - “ ‘ “Then you took your sons and daughters who belonged to me. And you sacrificed them as food to other gods. Wasn’t it enough for you to be a prostitute?
- Ezekiel 16:21 - You killed my children. You sacrificed them to other gods.
- Ezekiel 16:22 - You did not remember the days when you were young. At that time you were completely naked. You were kicking around in your blood. But now you have done evil things. I hate them. You have worshiped other gods. You have not been faithful to me.
- Ezekiel 16:23 - “ ‘ “How terrible it will be for you!” announces the Lord and King. “How terrible for you! You continued to sin against me.
- Ezekiel 16:24 - Your people built up mounds for themselves in every market. They put little places of worship on them.
- Ezekiel 16:25 - They set them up at every street corner. Jerusalem, you misused your beauty. You offered your body to anyone who passed by. You did it again and again.
- Ezekiel 16:26 - You committed shameful acts with the people of Egypt. They were your neighbors who were ready to have sex with you. You offered yourself to them again and again. That made me very angry.
- Ezekiel 16:27 - So I reached out my powerful hand against you. I made your territory smaller. I handed you over to your Philistine enemies. The people in their towns were shocked by your impure conduct.
- Ezekiel 16:28 - You also committed shameful acts with the people of Assyria. Nothing ever seemed to satisfy you. You could never get enough.
- Ezekiel 16:29 - Then you offered yourself to the people of Babylon. But that did not satisfy you either. There are many traders in the land of Babylon.
- Ezekiel 16:30 - “ ‘ “I am filled with great anger against you,” announces the Lord and King. “Just look at all the things you are doing! You are acting like a prostitute who has no shame at all.
- Ezekiel 16:31 - Your people built up mounds at every street corner. You put little places of worship on them in every market. But you did not really act like a prostitute. That’s because you refused to let your lovers pay you anything.
- Ezekiel 16:32 - “ ‘ “You unfaithful wife! You would rather be with strangers than with your own husband!
- Ezekiel 16:33 - Every prostitute receives gifts. Instead, you give gifts to all your lovers. You offer them money to come to you from everywhere. You want them to sleep with you. You are not faithful to me.
- Ezekiel 16:34 - As a prostitute, you are the opposite of others. No one runs after you to sleep with you. You are exactly the opposite. You pay them. They do not pay you.” ’ ”
- Ezekiel 16:35 - You prostitute, listen to the Lord’s message.
- Ezekiel 16:36 - The Lord and King says, “You poured out your desire on your lovers. You took off your clothing and slept with them. You did it again and again. You worshiped other gods. I hate them. You even sacrificed your children to them.
- Ezekiel 16:37 - So I am going to gather together all the lovers you found pleasure with. They include those you loved and those you hated. I will gather them against you from everywhere. I will take your clothes off right in front of them. Then they will see you completely naked.
- Ezekiel 16:38 - I will hand down my sentence against you. You will be punished like women who commit adultery and sacrifice their children to other gods. I am so angry with you. So I will sentence you to death for everything you have done.
- Ezekiel 16:39 - Then I will hand you over to your lovers. They will tear down those mounds you built. They will destroy the little places of worship you put on them. They will take your clothes off. They will remove your fine jewelry. And they will leave you completely naked.
- Ezekiel 16:40 - They will bring a crowd against you. The crowd will put you to death by throwing stones at you. And they will chop you to pieces with their swords.
- Ezekiel 16:41 - They will burn down your houses and punish you. Many women will see it. I will not let you be a prostitute anymore. You will no longer pay your lovers.
- Ezekiel 16:42 - Then my great anger against you will die down. My jealous anger will turn away from you. I will be calm. I will not be angry anymore.
- Ezekiel 16:43 - “You did not remember the days when you were young. The things you did made me very angry. So anything that happens to you will be your own fault,” announces the Lord and King. “You added impure conduct to all the other evil things you did. I hate all those things.
- Ezekiel 16:44 - “All those who use proverbs will use this one about you. They will say, ‘Like mother, like daughter.’
- Ezekiel 16:45 - You are a true daughter of your mother. She hated her husband and children. And you are a true sister of your sisters. They hated their husbands and children. Your mother was a Hittite. Your father was an Amorite.
- Ezekiel 16:46 - Your older sister was Samaria. She lived north of you with her daughters. Your younger sister was Sodom. She lived south of you with her daughters.
- Ezekiel 16:47 - You lived exactly the way they did. You copied their evil practices. I hate those practices. Everything you did was so sinful that you soon became even worse than they were.
- Ezekiel 16:48 - Your sister Sodom and her daughters never did what you and your daughters have done. And that is just as sure as I am alive,” announces the Lord and King.
- Ezekiel 16:49 - “Here is the sin your sister Sodom committed. She and her daughters were proud. They ate too much. They were not concerned about others. They did not help those who were poor and in need.
- Ezekiel 16:50 - They were very proud. They did many things that were evil in my eyes. I hated those things. So I got rid of Sodom and her daughters, just as you have seen.
- Ezekiel 16:51 - Samaria did not commit half the sins you did. You sinned even more than they did. I hate those sins. Compared to what you did, you made your sisters seem godly.
- Ezekiel 16:52 - So you will be dishonored. You have given your sisters an excuse for what they did. Your sins were far worse than theirs. In fact, your sisters appear to be more godly than you. So then, be ashamed. You will be dishonored. You have made them appear to be godly.
- Ezekiel 16:53 - “I will not only give you back what you had before. I will also do the same thing for Sodom and her daughters. And I will do the same for Samaria and her daughters.
- Ezekiel 16:54 - That will make you feel dishonored. You will be ashamed of everything you have done. You have made them feel better because you sinned more and were punished more than they were.
- Ezekiel 16:55 - Your sisters Sodom and Samaria and their daughters will return to what they were before. And you and your daughters will return to what you were before.
- Ezekiel 16:56 - In the past you would not even mention your sister Sodom. You were proud at that time.
- Ezekiel 16:57 - That was before your sin was uncovered. Now the daughters of Edom make fun of you. So do all her neighbors and the daughters of the Philistines. Everyone who lives around you hates you.
- Ezekiel 16:58 - You will be punished for your impure conduct. I will also punish you for the other evil things you have done. I hate all those things,” announces the Lord.
- Ezekiel 16:59 - The Lord and King says, “I will punish you in keeping with what you have done. I sealed with a promise the covenant I made with you. You hated that promise. And you broke my covenant.
- Ezekiel 16:60 - But I will remember my covenant with you. I made it with you when you were young. Now I will make a new covenant with you. It will last forever.
- Ezekiel 16:61 - Then you will remember how you have lived. You will be ashamed when I give you Samaria and Sodom. Samaria is your older sister. Sodom is your younger one. I will give them and their daughters to you as daughters. That can’t happen based on my old covenant with you.
- Ezekiel 16:62 - So I will make my new covenant with you. Then you will know that I am the Lord.
- Ezekiel 16:63 - I will pay for all the sins you have committed. Then you will remember what you have done. You will be ashamed of it. Because of your shame, you will never speak against me again,” announces the Lord and King.
- Isaiah 24:5 - The earth is polluted by its people. They haven’t obeyed the laws of the Lord. They haven’t done what he told them to do. They’ve broken the covenant that will last forever.
- Isaiah 24:6 - So the Lord will send a curse on the earth. Its people will pay for what they’ve done. They will be burned up. Very few of them will be left.
- Jeremiah 3:6 - During the time Josiah was king, the Lord spoke to me. He said, “Have you seen what the people of Israel have done? They have not been faithful to me. They have committed adultery with other gods. They worshiped them on every high hill and under every green tree.
- Jeremiah 3:7 - I thought that after they had done all this, they would return to me. But they did not. Their sister nation Judah saw them doing this. And they were not faithful to me either.
- Jeremiah 3:8 - I gave Israel their letter of divorce. I sent them away because they were unfaithful to me so many times. But I saw that their sister nation Judah did not have any respect for me. They were not faithful to me either. They also went out and committed adultery with other gods.
- Jeremiah 3:9 - Israel was not faithful to me, but that did not bother them at all. They made the land ‘unclean.’ They worshiped gods that were made out of stone and wood.
- Leviticus 20:5 - Then I will turn against that man and his family. I will separate them from their people. I will also separate all those who follow him by joining themselves to Molek. They are not faithful to me.
- Leviticus 20:6 - “ ‘Suppose someone looks for advice from people who get messages from those who have died. Or they go to people who talk to the spirits of the dead. And they do what those people say. Then they have not been faithful to me. So I will turn against them. I will separate them from their people.
- Exodus 34:16 - You will choose some of their daughters as wives for your sons. And those daughters will commit sin by worshiping their gods. Then they will lead your sons to do the same thing.
- Ezekiel 20:43 - There you will remember your conduct. You will think about everything you did that made you “unclean.” And you will hate yourselves because of all the evil things you have done.
- Revelation 17:1 - One of the seven angels who had the seven bowls came to me. He said, “Come. I will show you how the great prostitute will be punished. She is the one who sits by many waters.
- Revelation 17:2 - The kings of the earth took part in her evil ways. The people living on earth were drunk with the wine of her terrible sins.”
- Revelation 17:3 - Then in a vision the angel carried me away to a desert. There the Holy Spirit showed me a woman sitting on a bright red beast. It was covered with names that say evil things about God. It had seven heads and ten horns.
- Revelation 17:4 - The woman was dressed in purple and bright red. She was gleaming with gold, jewels and pearls. In her hand she held a golden cup filled with things that God hates. It was filled with her terrible, dirty sins.
- Revelation 17:5 - The name written on her forehead was a mystery. Here is what it said. the great city of babylon the mother of prostitutes the mother of everything on earth that god hates
- Revelation 17:6 - I saw that the woman was drunk with the blood of God’s holy people. They are the ones who are witnesses about Jesus. When I saw her, I was very amazed.
- Ezekiel 23:3 - They became prostitutes in Egypt. They have been unfaithful to me since they were young. In that land they allowed their breasts to be touched. They permitted their virgin breasts to be kissed.
- Ezekiel 23:4 - The older sister was named Oholah. The younger one was Oholibah. They belonged to me. Sons and daughters were born to them. Oholah stands for Samaria. And Oholibah stands for Jerusalem.
- Ezekiel 23:5 - “Oholah was unfaithful to me even while she still belonged to me. She longed for her Assyrian lovers. They included soldiers
- Ezekiel 23:6 - who wore blue uniforms. They also included governors and commanders. All of them were young and handsome. They rode horses.
- Ezekiel 23:7 - She gave herself as a prostitute to all Assyria’s finest warriors. She made herself impure with the statues of the gods of everyone she longed for.
- Ezekiel 23:8 - She started being a prostitute in Egypt. And she never stopped. When she was young, men had sex with her. They kissed her virgin breasts. They used up all their sinful desires on her.
- Ezekiel 23:9 - “So I handed her over to her Assyrian lovers. She longed for them.
- Ezekiel 23:10 - They stripped her naked. They took away her sons and daughters. And they killed her with their swords. Other women laughed when that happened. I was the one who had punished her.
- Ezekiel 23:11 - “Her sister Oholibah saw it. But her evil desire for sexual sin was worse than her sister’s.
- Ezekiel 23:12 - She too longed for the men of Assyria. They included governors and commanders. They included soldiers who wore fancy uniforms. They also included men who rode horses. All of them were young and handsome.
- Ezekiel 23:13 - I saw that she too made herself impure. So both sisters did the same evil things.
- Ezekiel 23:14 - “But Oholibah went even further with her sexual sins. She saw pictures of men drawn on a wall. They were figures of Babylonians drawn in red.
- Ezekiel 23:15 - They had belts around their waists. They wore flowing turbans on their heads. All of them looked like Babylonian chariot officers. They were from the land of the Chaldeans.
- Ezekiel 23:16 - As soon as she saw the pictures, she longed for the men. So she sent messengers to them in Babylon.
- Ezekiel 23:17 - Then the Babylonians came to her. They went to bed with her. They had sex with her. They made her impure when they had sex with her. After they did it, she became sick of them. So she turned away from them.
- Ezekiel 23:18 - She acted like a prostitute who had no shame at all. She openly showed her naked body. I became sick of what she was doing. So I turned away from her. I had also turned away from her sister.
- Ezekiel 23:19 - But Oholibah offered her body to her lovers again and again. She remembered the days when she was a young prostitute in Egypt.
- Ezekiel 23:20 - There she had longed for her lovers. Their private parts seemed as big as those of donkeys. And their flow of semen appeared to be as much as that of horses.
- Ezekiel 23:21 - So you wanted to return to the days when you were young. You longed for the time when you first became impure in Egypt. That was when you allowed your breasts to be kissed. And you permitted your young breasts to be touched.”
- Ezekiel 23:22 - So the Lord and King says, “Oholibah, I will stir up your lovers against you. You became sick of them. You turned away from them. But I will bring them against you from every side.
- Ezekiel 23:23 - They include the Babylonians and all the Chaldeans. They include the men from Pekod, Shoa and Koa. They also include all the Assyrians. They are young and handsome. Some of them are governors and commanders. Others are chariot officers. Still others are very high officials. All of them ride horses.
- Ezekiel 23:24 - So a huge army will come against you with weapons, chariots and wagons. They will take up positions against you on every side. They will carry large and small shields. They will wear helmets. I will turn you over to them to be punished. They will punish you in their own way.
- Ezekiel 23:25 - I will pour out my jealous anger on you. And the army’s anger will burn against you. They will cut off your noses and ears. Some of you who are left will be killed by swords. They will take away your sons and daughters. Others of you who are left will be burned up.
- Ezekiel 23:26 - The army will also strip off your clothes. They will take your fine jewelry away from you.
- Ezekiel 23:27 - You became an impure prostitute in Egypt. But I will put a stop to all of that. You will no longer want to do any of it. You will not remember Egypt anymore.”
- Ezekiel 23:28 - The Lord and King says, “I am about to hand you over to people you hate. You became sick of them. You turned away from them.
- Ezekiel 23:29 - They will punish you because they hate you so much. They will take away from you everything you have worked for. They will leave you completely naked. Then everyone will see that you are a prostitute who has no shame at all. You were impure. You offered your body to your lovers again and again.
- Ezekiel 23:30 - That is why you will be punished. You longed for lovers in other nations. You made yourself impure by worshiping their gods.
- Ezekiel 23:31 - You did the same things your sister Oholah did. So I will put her cup in your hand. It is filled with the wine of my anger.”
- Ezekiel 23:32 - The Lord and King says to Oholibah, “You will drink from your sister’s cup. It is large and deep. It is filled with the wine of my anger. So others will laugh at you. They will make fun of you.
- Ezekiel 23:33 - You will become drunk and sad. The cup of my anger will completely destroy you. It is the same cup your sister Samaria drank from.
- Ezekiel 23:34 - You will drink from it until it is empty. Then you will chew on its pieces. And you will claw at your breasts. I have spoken,” announces the Lord and King.
- Ezekiel 23:35 - So the Lord and King says, “You have forgotten me. You have turned your back on me. You have been impure. You have acted like a prostitute. So I will punish you.”
- Ezekiel 23:36 - The Lord said to me, “Son of man, are you going to judge Oholah and Oholibah? Then tell them they have done many evil things. I hate those things.
- Ezekiel 23:37 - They have committed adultery. Their hands are covered with the blood of the people they have murdered. They have worshiped other gods. They have not been faithful to me. They have even sacrificed their children as food to other gods. Those children belonged to me.
- Ezekiel 23:38 - Here are some other things the sisters have done to me. They have made my temple ‘unclean.’ They have misused my Sabbath days.
- Ezekiel 23:39 - They have sacrificed their children to their gods. On that same day they entered my temple and made it ‘unclean.’ That is what they have done in my house.
- Ezekiel 23:40 - “They even sent messengers to bring men from far away. When the men arrived, Oholibah took a bath. She put makeup on her eyes. She put her jewelry on.
- Ezekiel 23:41 - She sat down on a beautiful couch. A table was in front of it. There she put the incense and olive oil that belonged to me.
- Ezekiel 23:42 - “The noise of a carefree crowd was all around her. Men who drink too much were brought from the desert. Other men were brought along with them. They put bracelets on the wrists of the two sisters. They put beautiful crowns on their heads.
- Ezekiel 23:43 - Then I spoke about Oholibah. She was worn out by adultery. I said, ‘Let them use her as a prostitute. After all, that is what she is.’
- Ezekiel 23:44 - So they slept with her. In fact, they slept with both of these impure women, Oholah and Oholibah. They slept with them just as men sleep with prostitutes.
- Ezekiel 23:45 - But judges who are right with God will sentence the sisters to be punished. They will be punished in the same way as women who commit adultery and murder. After all, they have committed adultery. And their hands are covered with the blood of the people they have murdered.”
- Ezekiel 23:46 - The Lord and King says, “Bring an angry crowd against the sisters. Hand them over to those who will terrify them and steal everything they have.
- Ezekiel 23:47 - The crowd will kill them by throwing stones at them. They will use swords to cut them down. They will kill their sons and daughters. And they will burn down their houses.
- Ezekiel 23:48 - “So I will put an end to impurity in the land. Then all its women will be warned. They will not want to be like the sisters.
- Ezekiel 23:49 - Those sisters will be punished because of the impure things they have done. They will be judged because they have worshiped other gods. Then they will know that I am the Lord and King.”
- Hosea 9:1 - Israel, don’t be joyful. Don’t be glad as the other nations are. You haven’t been faithful to your God. You love to get paid for being a prostitute. Your pay is the grain at every threshing floor.
- Ezekiel 20:30 - The Lord said to me, “Speak to the Israelites. Tell them, ‘Here is what the Lord and King says. “Are you going to make yourselves ‘unclean’ the way your people of long ago did? Are you also going to want to worship the statues of their evil gods?
- Ezekiel 20:31 - You make yourselves ‘unclean’ by offering sacrifices to other gods. You even sacrifice your children in the fire. You continue to do these things to this day. People of Israel, should I let you ask me for advice? I will not let you do that,” announces the Lord and King. “And that is just as sure as I am alive.
- Numbers 15:39 - You will have the tassels to look at. They will remind you to obey all the Lord’s commands. Then you will be faithful to him. You will not chase after what your own hearts and eyes wish for.
- Leviticus 17:7 - The Israelites must stop offering any of their sacrifices to statues of gods that look like goats. When they offer sacrifices to those statues, they are not faithful to me. This is a law for them that will last for all time to come.” ’
- Ezekiel 20:18 - I spoke to their children there. I said, ‘Do not follow the rules your parents gave you. Do not obey their laws. Do not make yourselves “unclean” by worshiping their gods.