Ezekiel 18:6
4 Behold, every soul belongs to Me; both father and son are Mine. The soul who sins is the one who will die.
5 Now suppose a man is righteous and does what is just and right:
He does not eat at the mountain or look to the idols of the house of Israel. He does not defile his neighbor’s wife or approach a woman during her period.
7 He does not oppress another, but restores the pledge to the debtor. He does not commit robbery, but gives his bread to the hungry and covers the naked with clothing.
8 He does not engage in usury or take excess interest, but he withholds his hand from iniquity and executes true justice between men.
Do read the surrounding verses too, because the context often says more than a single verse.
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- BSB
- He does not eat at the mountain or look to the idols of the house of Israel. He does not defile his neighbor’s wife or approach a woman during her period.
- KJV
- And hath not eaten upon the mountains, neither hath lifted up his eyes to the idols of the house of Israel, neither hath defiled his neighbour’s wife, neither hath come near to a menstruous woman,
- WEB
- and has not eaten on the mountains, hasn’t lifted up his eyes to the idols of the house of Israel, hasn’t defiled his neighbor’s wife, hasn’t come near a woman in her impurity,
- ASV
- and hath not eaten upon the mountains, neither hath lifted up his eyes to the idols of the house of Israel, neither hath defiled his neighbor`s wife, neither hath come near to a woman in her impurity,
- DARBY
- he hath not eaten upon the mountains, nor lifted up his eyes to the idols of the house of Israel, neither hath defiled his neighbour's wife, nor come near to a woman in her separation,
- BLB
- [if] on the mountains he has not eaten, and his eyes he has not lifted up to the idols of the house of Israel, and the wife of his neighbor he has not defiled, and toward a woman [in her] impurity he has not come near;
- ÅB
- ikke spiser [avgudsoffer] på fjellene og ikke løfter sine øyne til Israels folks motbydelige avguder og ikke krenker sin nestes hustru og ikke nærmer seg en kvinne når hun er uren,
- OTB
- hvis han ikke spiser ved fjellhelligdommene eller løfter sine øyne til Israels hus’ avguder, ikke gjør sin nabos hustru uren eller nærmer seg en kvinne under hennes menstruelle urenhet—
- B1930
- ikke eter [avgudsoffer] på fjellene og ikke løfter sine øine til Israels folks motbydelige avguder og ikke krenker sin næstes hustru og ikke nærmer sig en kvinne når hun er uren,
Study notes (Tyndale)
Original text and word study
Cross references
Ezekiel 18:15
He does not eat at the mountain or look to the idols of the house of Israel. He does not defile his neighbor’s wife.
Read in contextDeuteronomy 4:19
When you look to the heavens and see the sun and moon and stars—all the host of heaven—do not be enticed to bow down and worship what the LORD your God has apportioned to all the nations under heaven.
Read in contextEzekiel 20:24
For they did not practice My ordinances, but they rejected My statutes and profaned My Sabbaths, fixing their eyes on the idols of their fathers.
Read in contextEzekiel 6:13
Then you will know that I am the LORD, when their slain lie among their idols around their altars, on every high hill, on all the mountaintops, and under every green tree and leafy oak—the places where they offered fragrant incense to all their idols.
Read in contextEzekiel 22:9–11
Among you are slanderous men bent on bloodshed; within you are those who eat on the mountain shrines and commit acts of indecency.
Read in contextEzekiel 18:11–12
though the father has done none of them: Indeed, the son eats at the mountain and defiles his neighbor’s wife.
Read in contextLeviticus 20:10
If a man commits adultery with another man’s wife—with the wife of his neighbor—both the adulterer and the adulteress must surely be put to death.
Read in contextNumbers 25:2
who also invited them to the sacrifices for their gods. And the people ate and bowed down to these gods.
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