Ezekiel 11:20
New International Version
Then they will follow my decrees and be careful to keep my laws. They will be my people, and I will be their God.

New Living Translation
so they will obey my decrees and regulations. Then they will truly be my people, and I will be their God.

English Standard Version
that they may walk in my statutes and keep my rules and obey them. And they shall be my people, and I will be their God.

Berean Standard Bible
so that they may follow My statutes, keep My ordinances, and practice them. Then they will be My people, and I will be their God.

King James Bible
That they may walk in my statutes, and keep mine ordinances, and do them: and they shall be my people, and I will be their God.

New King James Version
that they may walk in My statutes and keep My judgments and do them; and they shall be My people, and I will be their God.

New American Standard Bible
so that they may walk in My statutes, and keep My ordinances and do them. Then they will be My people, and I shall be their God.

NASB 1995
that they may walk in My statutes and keep My ordinances and do them. Then they will be My people, and I shall be their God.

NASB 1977
that they may walk in My statutes and keep My ordinances, and do them. Then they will be My people, and I shall be their God.

Legacy Standard Bible
that they may walk in My statutes and keep My judgments and do them. Then they will be My people, and I shall be their God.

Amplified Bible
that they may walk in My statutes and keep My ordinances and do them. Then they shall be My people, and I will be their God.

Christian Standard Bible
so that they will follow my statutes, keep my ordinances, and practice them. They will be my people, and I will be their God.

Holman Christian Standard Bible
so they may follow My statutes, keep My ordinances, and practice them. Then they will be My people, and I will be their God.

American Standard Version
that they may walk in my statutes, and keep mine ordinances, and do them: and they shall be my people, and I will be their God.

Aramaic Bible in Plain English
And they shall walk in my commandments, and they shall keep my judgments and they shall do them, and they shall be to me a people, and I shall be God to them

Brenton Septuagint Translation
that they may walk in my commandments, and keep mine ordinances, and do them: and they shall be to me a people, and I will be to them a God.

Contemporary English Version
and all my laws and teachings. You will be my people, and I will be your God.

Douay-Rheims Bible
That they may walk in my commandments, and keep my judgments, and do them: and that they may be my people, and I may be their God.

English Revised Version
that they may walk in my statutes, and keep mine ordinances, and do them: and they shall be my people, and I will be their God.

GOD'S WORD® Translation
Then they will live by my laws and obey my rules. They will be my people, and I will be their God.

Good News Translation
Then they will keep my laws and faithfully obey all my commands. They will be my people, and I will be their God.

International Standard Version
When they live by my statutes and keep my ordinances by observing them, then they'll be my people and I will be their God.

JPS Tanakh 1917
that they may walk in My statutes, and keep Mine ordinances, and do them; and they shall be My people, and I will be their God.

Literal Standard Version
So that they walk in My statutes, | And keep My judgments, and have done them, | And they have been to Me for a people, | And I am to them for God.

Majority Standard Bible
so that they may follow My statutes, keep My ordinances, and practice them. Then they will be My people, and I will be their God.

New American Bible
so that they walk according to my statutes, taking care to keep my ordinances. Thus they will be my people, and I will be their God.

NET Bible
so that they may follow my statutes and observe my regulations and carry them out. Then they will be my people, and I will be their God.

New Revised Standard Version
so that they may follow my statutes and keep my ordinances and obey them. Then they shall be my people, and I will be their God.

New Heart English Bible
that they may walk in my statutes, and keep my ordinances, and do them: and they shall be my people, and I will be their God.

Webster's Bible Translation
That they may walk in my statutes, and keep my ordinances, and do them: and they shall be my people, and I will be their God.

World English Bible
that they may walk in my statutes, and keep my ordinances, and do them. They will be my people, and I will be their God.

Young's Literal Translation
So that in My statutes they walk, And My judgments they keep, and have done them, And they have been to me for a people, And I am to them for God.

Additional Translations ...
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Context
A Promise of Restoration
19And I will give them singleness of heart and put a new spirit within them; I will remove their heart of stone and give them a heart of flesh, 20so that they may follow My statutes, keep My ordinances, and practice them. Then they will be My people, and I will be their God. 21But as for those whose hearts pursue detestable things and abominations, I will bring their conduct down upon their own heads, declares the Lord GOD.”…

Cross References
Psalm 105:45
that they might keep His statutes and obey His laws. Hallelujah!

Psalm 119:1
Blessed are those whose way is blameless, who walk in the law of the LORD.

Proverbs 9:6
Leave your folly behind, and you will live; walk in the way of understanding."

Ezekiel 14:11
in order that the house of Israel may no longer stray from Me and no longer defile themselves with all their transgressions. Then they will be My people and I will be their God, declares the Lord GOD.'"

Ezekiel 36:27
And I will put My Spirit within you and cause you to walk in My statutes and to carefully observe My ordinances.

Ezekiel 43:11
and if they are ashamed of all they have done, then make known to them the design of the temple--its arrangement and its exits and entrances--its whole design along with all its statutes, forms, and laws. Write it down in their sight, so that they may keep its complete design and all its statutes and may carry them out.

Zechariah 8:8
I will bring them back to dwell in Jerusalem, where they will be My people, and I will be their faithful and righteous God."


Treasury of Scripture

That they may walk in my statutes, and keep my ordinances, and do them: and they shall be my people, and I will be their God.

they may

Ezekiel 11:12
And ye shall know that I am the LORD: for ye have not walked in my statutes, neither executed my judgments, but have done after the manners of the heathen that are round about you.

Psalm 105:45
That they might observe his statutes, and keep his laws. Praise ye the LORD.

Psalm 119:4,5,32
Thou hast commanded us to keep thy precepts diligently…

and they

Ezekiel 14:11
That the house of Israel may go no more astray from me, neither be polluted any more with all their transgressions; but that they may be my people, and I may be their God, saith the Lord GOD.

Ezekiel 36:28
And ye shall dwell in the land that I gave to your fathers; and ye shall be my people, and I will be your God.

Ezekiel 37:27
My tabernacle also shall be with them: yea, I will be their God, and they shall be my people.

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4. Their sin and judgment
13. Ezekiel complaining, God shows him his purpose in saving a remnant
22. The glory of God leaves the city
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Verse 20. - That they may walk in my statutes, etc. Out of the new spirit there was to grow the new life - a life of righteousness and obedience, as in worship, so also in the acts of man's daily life and his dealings with his neighbours. So, and not otherwise, could the actual relation of Jehovah correspond to the ideal, as it had been declared of old (Exodus 6:7; Leviticus 26:12; 1 Samuel 12:22; 2 Samuel 7:23). This, for Ezekiel, was the crowning blessedness of all, as it had been that of earlier and contemporary prophets (Hosea 2:23; Jeremiah 24:7). To that thought he returns again and again, as to the anchor of his hope (Ezekiel 14:11; Ezekiel 27:14; Ezekiel 36:28; Ezekiel 37:23, 27).

Parallel Commentaries ...


Hebrew
so that
לְמַ֙עַן֙ (lə·ma·‘an)
Preposition
Strong's 4616: Purpose -- intent

they may follow
יֵלֵ֔כוּ (yê·lê·ḵū)
Verb - Qal - Imperfect - third person masculine plural
Strong's 1980: To go, come, walk

My statutes,
בְּחֻקֹּתַ֣י (bə·ḥuq·qō·ṯay)
Preposition-b | Noun - feminine plural construct | first person common singular
Strong's 2708: Something prescribed, an enactment, statute

keep
יִשְׁמְר֖וּ (yiš·mə·rū)
Verb - Qal - Imperfect - third person masculine plural
Strong's 8104: To hedge about, guard, to protect, attend to

My ordinances,
מִשְׁפָּטַ֥י (miš·pā·ṭay)
Noun - masculine plural construct | first person common singular
Strong's 4941: A verdict, a sentence, formal decree, divine law, penalty, justice, privilege, style

and practice them.
וְעָשׂ֣וּ (wə·‘ā·śū)
Conjunctive waw | Verb - Qal - Conjunctive perfect - third person common plural
Strong's 6213: To do, make

Then they will be
וְהָיוּ־ (wə·hā·yū-)
Conjunctive waw | Verb - Qal - Conjunctive perfect - third person common plural
Strong's 1961: To fall out, come to pass, become, be

My people,
לְעָ֔ם (lə·‘ām)
Preposition-l | Noun - masculine singular
Strong's 5971: A people, a tribe, troops, attendants, a flock

and I
וַאֲנִ֕י (wa·’ă·nî)
Conjunctive waw | Pronoun - first person common singular
Strong's 589: I

will be
אֶהְיֶ֥ה (’eh·yeh)
Verb - Qal - Imperfect - first person common singular
Strong's 1961: To fall out, come to pass, become, be

their God.
לֵאלֹהִֽים׃ (lê·lō·hîm)
Preposition-l | Noun - masculine plural
Strong's 430: gods -- the supreme God, magistrates, a superlative


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