American Standard Version
"Moreover also I gave them statutes that were not good, and ordinances wherein they should not live; "
— Ezekiel 20:25, American Standard Version
“Wherefore I gave them also statutes that were not good, and judgments whereby they should not live;”
“Moreover also I gave them statutes that were not good, and ordinances in which they should not live;”
“I also gave them decrees which were not good and regulations by which they could not live.”
“Therefore I also gave them statutes that were not good, and judgments, in which they shall not live.”
“And further, I gave them rules which were not good and orders in which there was no life for them;”
“Wherefore I gave them also statutes that were not good, and judgments whereby they should not live;”
Nevertheless I withdrew my hand, and wrought for my name’s sake, that it should not be profaned in the sight of the nations, in whose sight I brought them forth.
Moreover I sware unto them in the wilderness, that I would scatter them among the nations, and disperse them through the countries;
because they had not executed mine ordinances, but had rejected my statutes, and had profaned my sabbaths, and their eyes were after their fathers’ idols.
Moreover also I gave them statutes that were not good, and ordinances wherein they should not live;
and I polluted them in their own gifts, in that they caused to pass through the fire all that openeth the womb, that I might make them desolate, to the end that they might know that I am Jehovah.
Therefore, son of man, speak unto the house of Israel, and say unto them, Thus saith the Lord Jehovah: In this moreover have your fathers blasphemed me, in that they have committed a trespass against me.
For when I had brought them into the land, which I sware to give unto them, then they saw every high hill, and every thick tree, and they offered there their sacrifices, and there they presented the provocation of their offering; there also they made their sweet savor, and they poured out there their drink-offerings.