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<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "//www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd"><html xmlns="//www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8" /><meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width, initial-scale=1" /><title>Ezekiel 20:18 Catholic Bible: Instead, I warned the young people among them: Do not keep the laws your ancestors made; do not follow their customs or defile yourselves with their idols. </title><link rel="canonical" href="https://biblehub.com/catholic/ezekiel/20-18.htm" /><link rel="stylesheet" href="/15002new8.css" type="text/css" media="Screen" /></head><body><div id="fx"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" id="fx2"><tr><td><iframe width="100%" height="30" scrolling="no" src="../vmenus/ezekiel/20-18.htm" align="left" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table></div><div id="blnk"></div><div align="center"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" class="maintable"><tr><td><div id="fx5"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" id="fx6"><tr><td><iframe width="100%" height="245" scrolling="no" src="/bmcc/ezekiel/20-18.htm" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table></div></td></tr></table></div><div align="center"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" class="maintable3"><tr><td><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center" id="announce"><tr><td><div id="l1"><div id="breadcrumbs"><a href="/catholic/">Bible</a> > <a href="/gntd/ezekiel/1.htm">Ezekiel</a> > <a href="/gntd/ezekiel/20.htm">Chapter 20</a> > Verse 18</div><div id="anc"><iframe src="/anc.htm" width="100%" height="27" scrolling="no" frameborder="0"></iframe></div><div id="anc2"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td><iframe src="/anc2.htm" width="100%" height="27" scrolling="no" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table></div></div><div id="ad1"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td><iframe src="/ad1.htm" width="100%" height="48" scrolling="no" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table></div></td></tr></table><div id="movebox2"><table border="0" align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0"><tr><td><div id="topheading"><a href="../ezekiel/20-17.htm" title="Ezekiel 20:17">◄</a> Ezekiel 20:18 <a href="../ezekiel/20-19.htm" title="Ezekiel 20:19">►</a></div></tr></table></div><div align="center" class="maintable2"><table border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td><div id="leftbox"><div class="padleft"><div class="vheadingv"><b>Verse</b><a href="/nabre/ezekiel/20.htm" class="clickchap" style="color:#552200" title="Click any translation name for full chapter">  (Click for Chapter)</a></div><div id="par"><span class="versiontext"><a href="/gntd/ezekiel/20.htm">Good News Translation</a></span><br />Instead, I warned the young people among them: Do not keep the laws your ancestors made; do not follow their customs or defile yourselves with their idols. <p><span class="versiontext"><a href="/nrsvce/ezekiel/20.htm">New Revised Standard Version</a></span><br />I said to their children in the wilderness, Do not follow the statutes of your parents, nor observe their ordinances, nor defile yourselves with their idols.<p><span class="versiontext"><a href="/cevd/ezekiel/20.htm">Contemporary English Version</a></span><br />So I warned the children not to act like their parents or follow their evil ways or worship their idols. <p><span class="versiontext"><a href="/nabre/ezekiel/20.htm">New American Bible</a></span><br />Then I said to their children in the wilderness: Do not follow the statutes of your parents. Do not keep their ordinances. Do not defile yourselves with their idols.<p><span class="versiontext"><a href="/drbc/ezekiel/20.htm">Douay-Rheims Bible</a></span><br />And I said to their children in the wilderness: Walk not in the statutes of your fathers, and observe not their judgments, nor be ye defiled with their idols:<div class="vheading2">Treasury of Scripture Knowledge</div><p class="tsk2">And I said to their children in the wilderness: Walk not in the statutes of your fathers, and observe not their judgments, nor be ye defiled with their idols:</p><p class="hdg">I said</p><p class="tskverse"><a href="../numbers/14-32.htm">Numbers 14:32,33</a> Your carcasses shall lie in the wilderness. . . . </p><p class="tskverse"><a href="../numbers/32-13.htm">Numbers 32:13-15</a> And the Lord being angry against Israel, led them about through the desert forty years, until the whole generation, that had done evil in his sight, was consumed. . . . </p><p class="tskverse"><a href="../deuteronomy/4-3.htm">Deuteronomy 4:3-6</a> Your eyes have seen all that the Lord hath done against Beelphegor, how he hath destroyed all his worshippers from among you. . . . </p><p class="tskverse"><a href="../psalms/78-6.htm">Psalm 78:6-8</a> That another generation might know them. The children that should be born and should rise up, and declare them to their children. . . . </p><p class="hdg">the statues</p><p class="tskverse"><a href="../zechariah/1-2.htm">Zechariah 1:2-4</a> The Lord hath been exceeding angry with your fathers. . . . </p><p class="tskverse"><a href="../luke/11-47.htm">Luke 11:47,48</a> Woe to you who build the monuments of the prophets: and your fathers killed them. . . . </p><p class="tskverse"><a href="../acts/7-51.htm">Acts 7:51</a> You stiffnecked and uncircumcised in heart and ears, you always resist the Holy Ghost. As your fathers did, so do you also.</p><p class="tskverse"><a href="../1_peter/1-18.htm">1 Peter 1:18</a> Knowing that you were not redeemed with corruptible things, as gold or silver, from your vain conversation of the tradition of your fathers:</p><p class="hdg">defile</p><p class="tskverse"><a href="../ezekiel/20-7.htm">Ezekiel 20:7</a> And I said to them: Let every man cast away the scandals of his eyes, and defile not yourselves with the idols of Egypt: I am the Lord your God.</p><p class="tskverse"><a href="../jeremiah/2-7.htm">Jeremiah 2:7</a> And I brought you into the land of Carmel, to eat the fruit thereof, and the best things thereof: and when ye entered in, you defiled my land and made my inheritance an abomination.</p><p class="tskverse"><a href="../jeremiah/3-9.htm">Jeremiah 3:9</a> And by the facility of her fornication she defiled the land, and played the harlot with stones and with stocks.</p></div></div></div><div id="centbox"><div class="padcent"><div class="vheadingv"><b>Context</b></div><span class="hdg"><a href="/drbc/ezekiel/20.htm">Israel's Rebellion in the Wilderness</a></span><br> <span class="reftext">18</span><span class="highl">And I said to their children in the wilderness: Walk not in the statutes of your fathers, and observe not their judgments, nor be ye defiled with their idols:</span><span class="reftext">19</span>I am the Lord your God: walk ye in my statutes, and observe my judgments, and do them.…<div class="vheading2">Cross References</div><div id="crf"><span class="crossverse"><a href="../numbers/14-31.htm">Numbers 14:31</a></span><br />But your children, of whom you said, that they should be a prey to the enemies, will I bring in: that they may see the land which you have despised.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="../deuteronomy/4-3.htm">Deuteronomy 4:3</a></span><br />Your eyes have seen all that the Lord hath done against Beelphegor, how he hath destroyed all his worshippers from among you.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="../psalms/78-8.htm">Psalm 78:8</a></span><br />That they may not become like their fathers, a perverse and exasperating generation. A generation that set not their heart aright: and whose spirit was not faithful to God.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="../psalms/106-39.htm">Psalm 106:39</a></span><br />And was defiled with their works: and they went aside after their own inventions.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="../jeremiah/11-10.htm">Jeremiah 11:10</a></span><br />They are returned to the former iniquities of their fathers, who refused to hear my words: so these likewise have gone after strange gods, to serve them: the house of Israel, and the house of Juda have made void my covenant, which I made with their fathers.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="../ezekiel/2-3.htm">Ezekiel 2:3</a></span><br />And saying: Son of man, I send thee to the children of Israel, to a rebellious people, that hath revolted from me, they, and their fathers, have transgressed my covenant even unto this day.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="../ezekiel/18-19.htm">Ezekiel 18:19</a></span><br />And you say: Why hath not the son borne the iniquity of his father? Verily, because the son hath wrought judgment and justice, hath kept all my commandments, and done them, living, he shall live.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="../amos/2-4.htm">Amos 2:4</a></span><br />Thus saith the Lord: For three crimes of Juda, and for four I will not convert him: because he hath cast away the law of the Lord, and hath not kept his commandments: for their idols have caused them to err, after which their fathers have walked.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="../zechariah/1-4.htm">Zechariah 1:4</a></span><br />Be not as your fathers, to whom the former prophets have cried, saying: Thus saith the Lord of hosts: Turn ye from your evil ways, and from your wicked thoughts: but they did not give ear, neither did they hearken to me, saith the Lord.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span></div></div></div><div id="mdd"><div align="center"><div class="bot2"><table align="center" width="100%"><tr><td></td></tr></table></div></div></div><div id="combox"><div class="padcom"><div class="vheading2">Jump to Previous</div><a href="/ezekiel/18-31.htm">Children</a> <a href="/ezekiel/20-7.htm">Defile</a> <a href="/ezekiel/20-7.htm">Defiled</a> <a href="/ezekiel/20-17.htm">Desert</a> <a href="/ezekiel/20-4.htm">Fathers</a> <a href="/ezekiel/20-16.htm">Follow</a> <a href="/ezekiel/20-16.htm">Guided</a> <a href="/ezekiel/20-16.htm">Idols</a> <a href="/ezekiel/20-7.htm">Images</a> <a href="/ezekiel/20-16.htm">Judgments</a> <a href="/ezekiel/20-16.htm">Laws</a> <a href="/ezekiel/18-19.htm">Observe</a> <a href="/ezekiel/20-16.htm">Orders</a> <a href="/ezekiel/20-16.htm">Ordinances</a> <a href="/ezekiel/20-16.htm">Rules</a> <a href="/ezekiel/20-16.htm">Statutes</a> <a href="/ezekiel/20-14.htm">Unclean</a> <a href="/ezekiel/20-16.htm">Walk</a> <a href="/ezekiel/20-17.htm">Waste</a> <a href="/ezekiel/20-17.htm">Wilderness</a> <a href="/ezekiel/20-7.htm">Yourselves</a><div class="vheading2">Jump to Next</div><a href="/ezekiel/20-21.htm">Children</a> <a href="/ezekiel/20-26.htm">Defile</a> <a href="/ezekiel/20-26.htm">Defiled</a> <a href="/ezekiel/20-23.htm">Desert</a> <a href="/ezekiel/20-24.htm">Fathers</a> <a href="/ezekiel/20-19.htm">Follow</a> <a href="/ezekiel/20-19.htm">Guided</a> <a href="/ezekiel/20-24.htm">Idols</a> <a href="/ezekiel/20-24.htm">Images</a> <a href="/ezekiel/20-19.htm">Judgments</a> <a href="/ezekiel/20-19.htm">Laws</a> <a href="/ezekiel/20-19.htm">Observe</a> <a href="/ezekiel/20-19.htm">Orders</a> <a href="/ezekiel/20-19.htm">Ordinances</a> <a href="/ezekiel/20-19.htm">Rules</a> <a href="/ezekiel/20-19.htm">Statutes</a> <a href="/ezekiel/20-22.htm">Unclean</a> <a href="/ezekiel/20-19.htm">Walk</a> <a href="/ezekiel/20-23.htm">Waste</a> <a href="/ezekiel/20-21.htm">Wilderness</a> <a href="/ezekiel/20-30.htm">Yourselves</a><div class="vheading2">Links</div><a href="/niv/ezekiel/20-18.htm">Ezekiel 20:18 NIV</a><br /><a href="/nlt/ezekiel/20-18.htm">Ezekiel 20:18 NLT</a><br /><a href="/esv/ezekiel/20-18.htm">Ezekiel 20:18 ESV</a><br /><a href="/nasb/ezekiel/20-18.htm">Ezekiel 20:18 NASB</a><span class="p"><br /><br /></span><a href="//bibleapps.com/ezekiel/20-18.htm">Ezekiel 20:18 Bible Apps</a><br /><a href="//bibliaparalela.com/ezekiel/20-18.htm">Ezekiel 20:18 Biblia Paralela</a><br /><a href="//holybible.com.cn/ezekiel/20-18.htm">Ezekiel 20:18 Chinese Bible</a><br /><a href="//saintebible.com/ezekiel/20-18.htm">Ezekiel 20:18 French Bible</a><br /><a href="//bibeltext.com/ezekiel/20-18.htm">Ezekiel 20:18 German Bible</a><span class="p"><br /><br /></span>Alphabetical: children defile desert Do fathers follow I idols in keep laws not of or ordinances said statutes the their to walk wilderness with your yourselves<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><a href="https://biblehub.com/ezekiel/20-18.htm">OT Prophets: Ezekiel 20:18 I said to their children (Ezek. 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