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statutes and made known to them my rules, by which, if a person does them, he shall live.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/bsb/ezekiel/20.htm">Berean Standard Bible</a></span><br />And I gave them My statutes and made known to them My ordinances—for the man who does these things will live by them.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/kjv/ezekiel/20.htm">King James Bible</a></span><br />And I gave them my statutes, and shewed them my judgments, which <i>if</i> a man do, he shall even live in them.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/nkjv/ezekiel/20.htm">New King James Version</a></span><br />And I gave them My statutes and showed them My judgments, ‘which, <i>if</i> a man does, he shall live by them.’<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/nasb_/ezekiel/20.htm">New American Standard Bible</a></span><br />I gave them My statutes and informed them of My ordinances, which, <i>if</i> a person follows them, then he will live by them.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/nasb/ezekiel/20.htm">NASB 1995</a></span><br />&#8220I gave them My statutes and informed them of My ordinances, by which, if a man observes them, he will live.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/nasb77/ezekiel/20.htm">NASB 1977 </a></span><br />“And I gave them My statutes and informed them of My ordinances, by which, if a man observes them, he will live.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/lsb/ezekiel/20.htm">Legacy Standard Bible </a></span><br />I gave them My statutes and made them know My judgments, which, if a man does them, he will live by them.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/amp/ezekiel/20.htm">Amplified Bible</a></span><br />I gave them My statutes and explained My ordinances to them, which, if a man keeps, he will live.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/csb/ezekiel/20.htm">Christian Standard Bible</a></span><br />Then I gave them my statutes and explained my ordinances to them—the person who does them will live by them.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/hcsb/ezekiel/20.htm">Holman Christian Standard Bible</a></span><br />Then I gave them My statutes and explained My ordinances to them—the person who does them will live by them.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/asv/ezekiel/20.htm">American Standard Version</a></span><br />And I gave them my statutes, and showed them mine ordinances, which if a man do, he shall live in them.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/cev/ezekiel/20.htm">Contemporary English Version</a></span><br />I gave them my laws and teachings, so they would know how to live right. <span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/erv/ezekiel/20.htm">English Revised Version</a></span><br />And I gave them my statutes, and shewed them my judgments, which if a man do, he shall live in them.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/gwt/ezekiel/20.htm">GOD'S WORD® Translation</a></span><br />I gave them my laws and made my rules known to them. If people obey them they will live.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/gnt/ezekiel/20.htm">Good News Translation</a></span><br />I gave them my commands and taught them my laws, which bring life to anyone who obeys them. <span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/isv/ezekiel/20.htm">International Standard Version</a></span><br />where I gave them my statutes and revealed my ordinances to them, which if a person observes, he'll live by them. <span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/net/ezekiel/20.htm">NET Bible</a></span><br />I gave them my statutes and revealed my regulations to them. The one who carries them out will live by them!<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/nheb/ezekiel/20.htm">New Heart English Bible</a></span><br />I gave them my statutes, and showed them my ordinances, which if a man does, he shall live in them.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/wbt/ezekiel/20.htm">Webster's Bible Translation</a></span><br />And I gave them my statutes, and showed them my judgments, which if a man doeth, he shall even live in them.<div class="vheading2"><b>Majority Text Translations</b></div><span class="versiontext"><a href="/msb/ezekiel/20.htm">Majority Standard Bible</a></span><br />And I gave them My statutes and made known to them My ordinances—for the man who does these things will live by them.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/web/ezekiel/20.htm">World English Bible</a></span><br />I gave them my statutes and showed them my ordinances, which if a man does, he will live in them. <div class="vheading2"><b>Literal Translations</b></div><span class="versiontext"><a href="/lsv/ezekiel/20.htm">Literal Standard Version</a></span><br />And I give My statutes to them, "" And I caused them to know My judgments, "" Which the man who does—lives by them.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/ylt/ezekiel/20.htm">Young's Literal Translation</a></span><br /> And I give to them My statutes, And my judgments I caused them to know, Which the man who doth -- liveth by them.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/slt/ezekiel/20.htm">Smith's Literal Translation</a></span><br />And I shall give to them my laws, and my judgments I caused them to know, which a man shall do them and he lived in them.<div class="vheading2"><b>Catholic Translations</b></div><span class="versiontext"><a href="/drb/ezekiel/20.htm">Douay-Rheims Bible</a></span><br />And I gave them my statutes, and I shewed them my judgments, which if a man do, he shall live in them. <span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/cpdv/ezekiel/20.htm">Catholic Public Domain Version</a></span><br />And I gave them my precepts, and I revealed to them my judgments, which, if a man does them, he shall live by them.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/nabre/ezekiel/20.htm">New American Bible</a></span><br />Then I gave them my statutes and made known to them my ordinances, so that everyone who keeps them has life through them.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/nrsvce/ezekiel/20.htm">New Revised Standard Version</a></span><br />I gave them my statutes and showed them my ordinances, by whose observance everyone shall live.<div class="vheading2"><b>Translations from Aramaic</b></div><span class="versiontext"><a href="/lamsa/ezekiel/20.htm">Lamsa Bible</a></span><br />And I gave them my commandments and showed them my judgments, which if a man do he shall live by them.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/hpbt/ezekiel/20.htm">Peshitta Holy Bible Translated</a></span><br />And I have given them my commands, and my judgments I have made known to them, so that if a son of man does them, he lives by them<div class="vheading2"><b>OT Translations</b></div><span class="versiontext"><a href="/jps/ezekiel/20.htm">JPS Tanakh 1917</a></span><br />And I gave them My statutes, and taught them Mine ordinances, which if a man do, he shall live by them.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/sep/ezekiel/20.htm">Brenton Septuagint Translation</a></span><br />And I gave them my commandments, and made known to them mine ordinances, all which <i>if</i> a man shall do, he shall even live in them.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/parallel/ezekiel/20-11.htm">Additional Translations ...</a></span></div></div></div><div id="centbox"><div class="padcent"><a name="audio" id="audio"></a><div class="vheadingv"><b>Audio Bible</b></div><iframe width="100%" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/vET3Gmwku4s?start=5122" title="YouTube video player" frameborder="0" allow="accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share" allowfullscreen></iframe><span class="p"><br /><br /><br /></span><div class="vheadingv"><b>Context</b></div><span class="hdg"><a href="/bsb/ezekiel/20.htm">Israel's Rebellion in Egypt</a></span><br>…<span class="reftext">10</span>So I brought them out of the land of Egypt and led them into the wilderness. <span class="reftext">11</span><span class="highl"><a href="/hebrew/5414.htm" title="5414: wā·’et·tên (Conj-w:: V-Qal-ConsecImperf-1cs) -- To give, put, set. A primitive root; to give, used with greatest latitude of application.">And I gave</a> <a href="/hebrew/lā·hem (Prep:: 3mp) -- ">them</a> <a href="/hebrew/853.htm" title="853: ’eṯ- (DirObjM) -- Apparent contracted from 'owth in the demonstrative sense of entity; properly, self."></a> <a href="/hebrew/2708.htm" title="2708: ḥuq·qō·w·ṯay (N-fpc:: 1cs) -- Something prescribed, an enactment, statute. Feminine of choq, and meaning substantially the same.">My statutes</a> <a href="/hebrew/853.htm" title="853: wə·’eṯ- (Conj-w:: DirObjM) -- Apparent contracted from 'owth in the demonstrative sense of entity; properly, self."></a> <a href="/hebrew/3045.htm" title="3045: hō·w·ḏa‘·tî (V-Hifil-Perf-1cs) -- A primitive root; to know; used in a great variety of senses, figuratively, literally, euphemistically and inferentially.">and made known</a> <a href="/hebrew/853.htm" title="853: ’ō·w·ṯām (DirObjM:: 3mp) -- Apparent contracted from 'owth in the demonstrative sense of entity; properly, self.">to them</a> <a href="/hebrew/4941.htm" title="4941: miš·pā·ṭay (N-mpc:: 1cs) -- Judgment. ">My ordinances—</a> <a href="/hebrew/120.htm" title="120: hā·’ā·ḏām (Art:: N-ms) -- Man, mankind. From 'adam; ruddy i.e. A human being.">for the man</a> <a href="/hebrew/834.htm" title="834: ’ă·šer (Pro-r) -- Who, which, that. A primitive relative pronoun; who, which, what, that; also when, where, how, because, in order that, etc.">who</a> <a href="/hebrew/6213.htm" title="6213: ya·‘ă·śeh (V-Qal-Imperf-3ms) -- To do, make. A primitive root; to do or make, in the broadest sense and widest application.">does these things</a> <a href="/hebrew/853.htm" title="853: ’ō·w·ṯām (DirObjM:: 3mp) -- Apparent contracted from 'owth in the demonstrative sense of entity; properly, self."></a> <a href="/hebrew/2421.htm" title="2421: wā·ḥay (Conj-w:: V-Qal-ConjPerf-3ms) -- To live, to revive. A primitive root; to live, whether literally or figuratively; causatively, to revive.">will live</a> <a href="/hebrew/bā·hem (Prep:: 3mp) -- ">by them.</a> </span><span class="reftext">12</span>I also gave them My Sabbaths as a sign between us, so that they would know that I am the LORD who sanctifies them.…<div class="cred"><a href="//berean.bible">Berean Standard Bible</a> · <a href="//berean.bible/downloads.htm">Download</a></div><span class="p"><br /><br /></span><a name="crossref" id="crossref"></a><div class="vheading">Cross References</div><div id="crf"><span class="crossverse"><a href="/deuteronomy/4-1.htm">Deuteronomy 4:1</a></span><br />Hear now, O Israel, the statutes and ordinances I am teaching you to follow, so that you may live and may enter and take possession of the land that the LORD, the God of your fathers, is giving you.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="/deuteronomy/5-32.htm">Deuteronomy 5:32-33</a></span><br />So be careful to do as the LORD your God has commanded you; you are not to turn aside to the right or to the left. / You must walk in all the ways that the LORD your God has commanded you, so that you may live and prosper and prolong your days in the land that you will possess.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="/leviticus/18-5.htm">Leviticus 18:5</a></span><br />Keep My statutes and My judgments, for the man who does these things will live by them. I am the LORD.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="/nehemiah/9-29.htm">Nehemiah 9:29</a></span><br />You admonished them to turn back to Your law, but they were arrogant and disobeyed Your commandments. They sinned against Your ordinances, by which a man will live if he practices them. They turned a stubborn shoulder; they stiffened their necks and would not obey.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="/romans/10-5.htm">Romans 10:5</a></span><br />For concerning the righteousness that is by the law, Moses writes: “The man who does these things will live by them.”<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="/galatians/3-12.htm">Galatians 3:12</a></span><br />The law, however, is not based on faith; on the contrary, “The man who does these things will live by them.”<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="/psalms/19-7.htm">Psalm 19:7-11</a></span><br />The Law of the LORD is perfect, reviving the soul; the testimony of the LORD is trustworthy, making wise the simple. / The precepts of the LORD are right, bringing joy to the heart; the commandments of the LORD are radiant, giving light to the eyes. / The fear of the LORD is pure, enduring forever; the judgments of the LORD are true, being altogether righteous. ...<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="/deuteronomy/30-15.htm">Deuteronomy 30:15-16</a></span><br />See, I have set before you today life and prosperity, as well as death and disaster. / For I am commanding you today to love the LORD your God, to walk in His ways, and to keep His commandments, statutes, and ordinances, so that you may live and increase, and the LORD your God may bless you in the land that you are entering to possess.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="/matthew/19-17.htm">Matthew 19:17</a></span><br />“Why do you ask Me about what is good?” Jesus replied. “There is only One who is good. If you want to enter life, keep the commandments.”<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="/romans/7-10.htm">Romans 7:10</a></span><br />So I discovered that the very commandment that was meant to bring life actually brought death.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="/leviticus/26-3.htm">Leviticus 26:3-4</a></span><br />If you follow My statutes and carefully keep My commandments, / I will give you rains in their season, and the land will yield its produce, and the trees of the field will bear their fruit.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="/deuteronomy/6-24.htm">Deuteronomy 6:24-25</a></span><br />And the LORD commanded us to observe all these statutes and to fear the LORD our God, that we may always be prosperous and preserved, as we are to this day. / And if we are careful to observe every one of these commandments before the LORD our God, as He has commanded us, then that will be our righteousness.”<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="/james/1-25.htm">James 1:25</a></span><br />But the one who looks intently into the perfect law of freedom, and continues to do so—not being a forgetful hearer, but an effective doer—he will be blessed in what he does.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="/romans/2-13.htm">Romans 2:13</a></span><br />For it is not the hearers of the law who are righteous before God, but it is the doers of the law who will be declared righteous.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="/john/12-50.htm">John 12:50</a></span><br />And I know that His command leads to eternal life. So I speak exactly what the Father has told Me to say.”</div><span class="p"><br /><br /></span><a name="tsk" id="tsk"><div class="vheading">Treasury of Scripture</div><p class="tsk2">And I gave them my statutes, and showed them my judgments, which if a man do, he shall even live in them.</p><p class="hdg">I gave</p><p class="tskverse"><b><a href="/deuteronomy/4-8.htm">Deuteronomy 4:8</a></b></br> And what nation <i>is there so</i> great, that hath statutes and judgments <i>so</i> righteous as all this law, which I set before you this day?</p><p class="tskverse"><b><a href="/nehemiah/9-13.htm">Nehemiah 9:13,14</a></b></br> Thou camest down also upon mount Sinai, and spakest with them from heaven, and gavest them right judgments, and true laws, good statutes and commandments: … </p><p class="tskverse"><b><a href="/psalms/147-19.htm">Psalm 147:19,20</a></b></br> He sheweth his word unto Jacob, his statutes and his judgments unto Israel… </p><p class="hdg">shewed them [heb] made them to know </p><p class="tskverse"><b><a href="/ezekiel/20-13.htm">Ezekiel 20:13,21</a></b></br> But the house of Israel rebelled against me in the wilderness: they walked not in my statutes, and they despised my judgments, which <i>if</i> a man do, he shall even live in them; and my sabbaths they greatly polluted: then I said, I would pour out my fury upon them in the wilderness, to consume them… </p><p class="tskverse"><b><a href="/leviticus/18-5.htm">Leviticus 18:5</a></b></br> Ye shall therefore keep my statutes, and my judgments: which if a man do, he shall live in them: I <i>am</i> the LORD.</p><p class="tskverse"><b><a href="/deuteronomy/20-15.htm">Deuteronomy 20:15,16</a></b></br> Thus shalt thou do unto all the cities <i>which are</i> very far off from thee, which <i>are</i> not of the cities of these nations… </p><div class="vheading">Jump to Previous</div><a href="/ezekiel/20-10.htm">Caused</a> <a href="/ezekiel/20-4.htm">Clear</a> <a href="/ezekiel/18-21.htm">Decrees</a> <a href="/isaiah/40-14.htm">Informed</a> <a href="/ezekiel/18-17.htm">Judgments</a> <a href="/ezekiel/18-21.htm">Keeps</a> <a href="/ezekiel/20-3.htm">Live</a> <a href="/isaiah/50-10.htm">Obeys</a> <a href="/ezra/7-10.htm">Observance</a> <a href="/ezekiel/18-21.htm">Observes</a> <a href="/ezekiel/11-20.htm">Orders</a> <a href="/ezekiel/18-17.htm">Ordinances</a> <a href="/ezekiel/18-21.htm">Rules</a> <a href="/ezekiel/11-25.htm">Shewed</a> <a href="/ezekiel/11-25.htm">Showed</a> <a href="/ezekiel/18-21.htm">Statutes</a> <a href="/jeremiah/32-33.htm">Taught</a><div class="vheading2">Jump to Next</div><a href="/ezekiel/20-26.htm">Caused</a> <a href="/ezekiel/20-12.htm">Clear</a> <a href="/ezekiel/20-16.htm">Decrees</a> <a href="/daniel/2-15.htm">Informed</a> <a href="/ezekiel/20-13.htm">Judgments</a> <a href="/daniel/6-13.htm">Keeps</a> <a href="/ezekiel/20-13.htm">Live</a> <a href="/joel/2-11.htm">Obeys</a> <a href="/acts/16-4.htm">Observance</a> <a href="/ezekiel/20-13.htm">Observes</a> <a href="/ezekiel/20-16.htm">Orders</a> <a href="/ezekiel/20-13.htm">Ordinances</a> <a href="/ezekiel/20-16.htm">Rules</a> <a href="/ezekiel/22-26.htm">Shewed</a> <a href="/ezekiel/35-11.htm">Showed</a> <a href="/ezekiel/20-13.htm">Statutes</a> <a href="/ezekiel/23-48.htm">Taught</a><div class="vheading2">Ezekiel 20</div><span class="reftext">1. </span><span class="outlinetext"><a href="/ezekiel/20-1.htm">God refuses to be consulted by the elders of Israel</a></span><br><span class="reftext">4. </span><span class="outlinetext"><a href="/ezekiel/20-4.htm">He shows the story of their rebellions in Egypt</a></span><br><span class="reftext">19. </span><span class="outlinetext"><a href="/ezekiel/20-19.htm">in the desert</a></span><br><span class="reftext">27. </span><span class="outlinetext"><a href="/ezekiel/20-27.htm">and in the land</a></span><br><span class="reftext">33. </span><span class="outlinetext"><a href="/ezekiel/20-33.htm">He promises to gather them by the Gospel</a></span><br><span class="reftext">45. </span><span class="outlinetext"><a href="/ezekiel/20-45.htm">Under the name of a forest he shows the destruction of Jerusalem</a></span><br></div></div><div id="mdd"><div align="center"><div class="bot2"><table align="center" width="100%"><tr><td><div align="center"> <script id="3d27ed63fc4348d5b062c4527ae09445"> (new Image()).src = 'https://capi.connatix.com/tr/si?token=51ce25d5-1a8c-424a-8695-4bd48c750f35&cid=3a9f82d0-4344-4f8d-ac0c-e1a0eb43a405'; 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These statutes were part of the covenant relationship between God and His people, intended to set them apart as a holy nation. The giving of the law is a central theme in the Pentateuch, particularly in <a href="/exodus/20.htm">Exodus 20-23</a> and Deuteronomy. The statutes were not merely legal requirements but were meant to guide the Israelites in living a life that reflected God's holiness and righteousness.<p><b>and made known to them My ordinances</b><br>Ordinances refer to specific decrees or regulations that were part of the broader legal framework given to Israel. These included ceremonial laws, civil laws, and moral laws. The purpose of these ordinances was to instruct the Israelites in how to worship God properly and how to live in community with one another. The revelation of these ordinances was an act of divine grace, as it provided clear guidance on how to maintain a relationship with God and with others.<p><b>for the man who does these things will live by them</b><br>This phrase emphasizes the life-giving nature of obedience to God's laws. In the context of the Old Testament, "living" by the statutes and ordinances meant experiencing the fullness of life that God intended, including blessings, prosperity, and peace. This concept is echoed in <a href="/leviticus/18-5.htm">Leviticus 18:5</a>, where it is stated that keeping God's decrees leads to life. In the New Testament, the Apostle Paul references this idea in <a href="/romans/10-5.htm">Romans 10:5</a> and <a href="/galatians/3-12.htm">Galatians 3:12</a>, contrasting the law with the righteousness that comes by faith in Christ. The ultimate fulfillment of the law is found in Jesus, who perfectly obeyed God's commands and offers eternal life to those who believe in Him.<div class="vheading2">Persons / Places / Events</div>1. <b><a href="/topical/e/ezekiel.htm">Ezekiel</a></b><br>A prophet during the Babylonian exile, tasked with delivering God's messages to the Israelites.<br><br>2. <b><a href="/topical/i/israelites.htm">Israelites</a></b><br>The chosen people of God, who were given the Law to follow as a covenant with God.<br><br>3. <b><a href="/topical/b/babylonian_exile.htm">Babylonian Exile</a></b><br>The period when the Israelites were exiled from their homeland due to their disobedience to God.<br><br>4. <b><a href="/topical/m/mount_sinai.htm">Mount Sinai</a></b><br>The place where God gave the Law to Moses, which included statutes and ordinances for the Israelites.<br><br>5. <b><a href="/topical/g/god's_statutes_and_ordinances.htm">God's Statutes and Ordinances</a></b><br>The laws and commands given by God to guide the Israelites in righteous living.<div class="vheading2">Teaching Points</div><b><a href="/topical/t/the_life-giving_nature_of_god's_law.htm">The Life-Giving Nature of God's Law</a></b><br>God's statutes and ordinances are designed to lead to life, not just in a physical sense but in a spiritual and communal sense as well.<br><br><b><a href="/topical/o/obedience_as_a_covenant_relationship.htm">Obedience as a Covenant Relationship</a></b><br>Following God's laws is part of the covenant relationship between God and His people, reflecting trust and commitment.<br><br><b><a href="/topical/t/the_role_of_the_law_in_revealing_sin.htm">The Role of the Law in Revealing Sin</a></b><br>While the Law was given to guide, it also reveals human sinfulness and the need for a savior, pointing to Christ.<br><br><b><a href="/topical/t/the_fulfillment_of_the_law_in_christ.htm">The Fulfillment of the Law in Christ</a></b><br>Jesus Christ fulfills the Law, offering life through faith and grace, which the Law pointed towards but could not achieve on its own.<br><br><b><a href="/topical/p/practical_obedience_in_daily_life.htm">Practical Obedience in Daily Life</a></b><br>Believers are called to live out God's principles in their daily lives, reflecting His character and love to the world.<div class="vheading2">Lists and Questions</div><a href="/top10/lessons_from_ezekiel_20.htm">Top 10 Lessons from Ezekiel 20</a><span class="p"><br /><br /></span><a href="/q/how_do_old_and_new_covenants_differ.htm">How do the Old and New Covenants differ?</a><span class="p"><br /><br /></span><a href="/q/is_lev._18_5_vs._rom._3_20_a_contradiction.htm">Leviticus 18:5 promises life through obedience, yet Romans 3:20 says the Law can’t grant righteousness. Is this an irreconcilable contradiction? </a><span class="p"><br /><br /></span><a href="/q/do_ezekiel_11_12_and_2_chron._30_conflict.htm">Ezekiel 11:12 condemns the people for not following God's statutes, yet other texts (e.g., 2 Chronicles 30) depict reforms and observance--do these accounts conflict, and if so, how?</a><span class="p"><br /><br /></span><a href="/q/how_does_gal._3_10_align_with_ot_law.htm">How does Galatians 3:10 align with Old Testament teachings that emphasize the fullness of the Law as God's command, not a curse?</a><a name="commentary" id="commentary"></a><div class="vheading2"><a href="/commentaries/ellicott/ezekiel/20.htm">Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers</a></div>(11) <span class= "bld">He shall even live in them.</span>--Comp. <a href="/context/deuteronomy/30-15.htm" title="See, I have set before you this day life and good, and death and evil;">Deuteronomy 30:15-20</a>. It becomes plain, on a careful perusal of this passage, that what was required was not a mere outward, technical, and perfunctory keeping of certain definite precepts, but a living and loving obedience to God's will from the heart. The same fundamental principle of life underlies the Old Testament as the New; yet the former is justly regarded, and frequently spoken of in the New Testament, as a covenant of works, because the people were not yet sufficiently educated spiritually to be able to receive the principle of faith, and were therefore placed under a law of many definite precepts, that by keeping these with glad alacrity they might show their readiness and desire to do the Lord's will. It is in this sense that a man should live by doing the statutes of the law, and not on the ground of his thereby earning for himself salvation. But even thus, they failed miserably under the test.<p><div class="vheading2"><a href="/commentaries/pulpit/ezekiel/20.htm">Pulpit Commentary</a></div><span class="cmt_sub_title">Verse 11.</span> - <span class="cmt_word">I gave them my statutes,</span> etc. Ezekiel recognizes, almost in the very language of <a href="/deuteronomy/30-16.htm">Deuteronomy 30:16-20</a>, as fully as the writers of <a href="/psalms/19.htm">Psalm 19</a>. and 119. recognized, the excellence of the Law. A man who kept that Law in its fulness would have life in its fullest and highest sense. He was beginning, however, to recognize, as Jeremiah had (lone (<a href="/jeremiah/31-31.htm">Jeremiah 31:31</a>), the powerlessness of the Law to give that life without the aid of something higher. The "new covenant" was already dawning on the mind of the scholar as on that of the master. <span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/commentaries/ezekiel/20-11.htm">Parallel Commentaries ...</a></span><span class="p"><br /><br /><br /></span><a name="lexicon" id="lexicon"></a><div class="vheading">Hebrew</div><span class="word">And I gave</span><br /><span class="heb">וָאֶתֵּ֤ן</span> <span class="translit">(wā·’et·tên)</span><br /><span class="parse">Conjunctive waw | Verb - Qal - Consecutive imperfect - first person common singular<br /></span><span class="str"><a href="/hebrew/strongs_5414.htm">Strong's 5414: </a> </span><span class="str2">To give, put, set</span><br /><br /><span class="word">them</span><br /><span class="heb">לָהֶם֙</span> <span class="translit">(lā·hem)</span><br /><span class="parse">Preposition | third person masculine plural<br /></span><span class="str"><a href="/hebrew/.htm">Strong's Hebrew</a> </span><span class="str2"></span><br /><br /><span class="word">My statutes</span><br /><span class="heb">חֻקּוֹתַ֔י</span> <span class="translit">(ḥuq·qō·w·ṯay)</span><br /><span class="parse">Noun - feminine plural construct | first person common singular<br /></span><span class="str"><a href="/hebrew/strongs_2708.htm">Strong's 2708: </a> </span><span class="str2">Something prescribed, an enactment, statute</span><br /><br /><span class="word">and made known</span><br /><span class="heb">הוֹדַ֣עְתִּי</span> <span class="translit">(hō·w·ḏa‘·tî)</span><br /><span class="parse">Verb - Hifil - Perfect - first person common singular<br /></span><span class="str"><a href="/hebrew/strongs_3045.htm">Strong's 3045: </a> </span><span class="str2">To know</span><br /><br /><span class="word">to them</span><br /><span class="heb">אוֹתָ֑ם</span> <span class="translit">(’ō·w·ṯām)</span><br /><span class="parse">Direct object marker | third person masculine plural<br /></span><span class="str"><a href="/hebrew/strongs_853.htm">Strong's 853: </a> </span><span class="str2">Untranslatable mark of the accusative case</span><br /><br /><span class="word">My ordinances—</span><br /><span class="heb">מִשְׁפָּטַ֖י</span> <span class="translit">(miš·pā·ṭay)</span><br /><span class="parse">Noun - masculine plural construct | first person common singular<br /></span><span class="str"><a href="/hebrew/strongs_4941.htm">Strong's 4941: </a> </span><span class="str2">A verdict, a sentence, formal decree, divine law, penalty, justice, privilege, style</span><br /><br /><span class="word">for the man</span><br /><span class="heb">הָאָדָ֖ם</span> <span class="translit">(hā·’ā·ḏām)</span><br /><span class="parse">Article | Noun - masculine singular<br /></span><span class="str"><a href="/hebrew/strongs_120.htm">Strong's 120: </a> </span><span class="str2">Ruddy, a human being</span><br /><br /><span class="word">who</span><br /><span class="heb">אֲשֶׁ֨ר</span> <span class="translit">(’ă·šer)</span><br /><span class="parse">Pronoun - relative<br /></span><span class="str"><a href="/hebrew/strongs_834.htm">Strong's 834: </a> </span><span class="str2">Who, which, what, that, when, where, how, because, in order that</span><br /><br /><span class="word">does [these things]</span><br /><span class="heb">יַעֲשֶׂ֥ה</span> <span class="translit">(ya·‘ă·śeh)</span><br /><span class="parse">Verb - Qal - Imperfect - third person masculine singular<br /></span><span class="str"><a href="/hebrew/strongs_6213.htm">Strong's 6213: </a> </span><span class="str2">To do, make</span><br /><br /><span class="word">will live</span><br /><span class="heb">וָחַ֥י</span> <span class="translit">(wā·ḥay)</span><br /><span class="parse">Conjunctive waw | Verb - Qal - Conjunctive perfect - third person masculine singular<br /></span><span class="str"><a href="/hebrew/strongs_2425.htm">Strong's 2425: </a> </span><span class="str2">To live, to revive</span><br /><br /><span class="word">by them.</span><br /><span class="heb">בָּהֶֽם׃</span> <span class="translit">(bā·hem)</span><br /><span class="parse">Preposition | third person masculine plural<br /></span><span class="str"><a href="/hebrew/.htm">Strong's Hebrew</a> </span><span class="str2"></span><br /><span class="p"><br /><br /></span><div class="vheading">Links</div><a href="/niv/ezekiel/20-11.htm">Ezekiel 20:11 NIV</a><br /><a href="/nlt/ezekiel/20-11.htm">Ezekiel 20:11 NLT</a><br /><a href="/esv/ezekiel/20-11.htm">Ezekiel 20:11 ESV</a><br /><a href="/nasb/ezekiel/20-11.htm">Ezekiel 20:11 NASB</a><br /><a href="/kjv/ezekiel/20-11.htm">Ezekiel 20:11 KJV</a><span class="p"><br /><br /></span><a href="//bibleapps.com/ezekiel/20-11.htm">Ezekiel 20:11 BibleApps.com</a><br /><a href="//bibliaparalela.com/ezekiel/20-11.htm">Ezekiel 20:11 Biblia Paralela</a><br /><a href="//holybible.com.cn/ezekiel/20-11.htm">Ezekiel 20:11 Chinese Bible</a><br /><a href="//saintebible.com/ezekiel/20-11.htm">Ezekiel 20:11 French Bible</a><br /><a href="/catholic/ezekiel/20-11.htm">Ezekiel 20:11 Catholic Bible</a><span class="p"><br /><br /></span><a href="/ezekiel/20-11.htm">OT Prophets: Ezekiel 20:11 I gave them my statutes and showed (Ezek. 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