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20 so they will obey my decrees and regulations. Then they will truly be my people, and I will be their God.
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Then they will follow my decrees and be careful to keep my laws. They will be my people, and I will be their God.
21 But as for those who long for vile images and detestable idols, I will repay them fully for their sins. I, the Sovereign LORD, have spoken!”
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But as for those whose hearts are devoted to their vile images and detestable idols, I will bring down on their own heads what they have done, declares the Sovereign LORD.”
22 Then the cherubim lifted their wings and rose into the air with their wheels beside them, and the glory of the God of Israel hovered above them.
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Then the cherubim, with the wheels beside them, spread their wings, and the glory of the God of Israel was above them.
23 Then the glory of the LORD went up from the city and stopped above the mountain to the east.
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The glory of the LORD went up from within the city and stopped above the mountain east of it.
24 Afterward the Spirit of God carried me back again to Babylonia, to the people in exile there. And so ended the vision of my visit to Jerusalem.
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The Spirit lifted me up and brought me to the exiles in Babylonia in the vision given by the Spirit of God. Then the vision I had seen went up from me,
25 And I told the exiles everything the LORD had shown me.
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and I told the exiles everything the LORD had shown me.
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