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I also gave them statutes that were not good and ordinances that did not bring them life.
Ezekiel 20:25 In-Context
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Also with uplifted hand I swore to them in the wilderness that I would disperse them among the nations and scatter them through the countries,
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because they had not obeyed my laws but had rejected my decrees and desecrated my Sabbaths, and their eyes lusted after their parents’ idols.
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So I gave them other statutes that were not good and laws through which they could not live;
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I defiled them through their gifts—the sacrifice of every firstborn—that I might fill them with horror so they would know that I am the LORD.’
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“Therefore, son of man, speak to the people of Israel and say to them, ‘This is what the Sovereign LORD says: In this also your ancestors blasphemed me by being unfaithful to me: