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Ezekiel 20:6

Egypt
God's faithfulness

4 Will you judge them, will you judge them, son of man? Confront them with the abominations of their fathers

5 and tell them that this is what the Lord GOD says: On the day I chose Israel, I swore an oath to the descendants of the house of Jacob and made Myself known to them in the land of Egypt. With an uplifted hand I said to them, ‘I am the LORD your God.’

On that day I swore to bring them out of the land of Egypt into a land that I had searched out for them, a land flowing with milk and honey, the glory of all lands.

7 And I said to them: ‘Each of you must throw away the abominations before his eyes, and you must not defile yourselves with the idols of Egypt. I am the LORD your God.’

8 But they rebelled against Me and refused to listen. None of them cast away the abominations before their eyes, and they did not forsake the idols of Egypt. So I resolved to pour out My wrath upon them and vent My anger against them in the land of Egypt.

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BSB
On that day I swore to bring them out of the land of Egypt into a land that I had searched out for them, a land flowing with milk and honey, the glory of all lands.
KJV
In the day that I lifted up mine hand unto them, to bring them forth of the land of Egypt into a land that I had espied for them, flowing with milk and honey, which is the glory of all lands:
WEB
in that day I swore to them to bring them out of the land of Egypt into a land that I had searched out for them, flowing with milk and honey, which is the glory of all lands.
ASV
in that day I sware unto them, to bring them forth out of the land of Egypt into a land that I had searched out for them, flowing with milk and honey, which is the glory of all lands.
DARBY
in that day I lifted up my hand unto them, to bring them out of the land of Egypt into a land that I had espied for them, flowing with milk and honey, which is the ornament of all lands;
BLB
On that day I lifted My hand to them to bring them out from the land of Egypt into a land that I had searched out for them, flowing with milk and honey—the glory it [is] of all the lands!
ÅB
på den dag løftet jeg min hånd og tilsvor dem at jeg ville føre dem ut av Egypt til et land som jeg hadde utsøkt for dem, et land som flyter med melk og honning, det fagreste av alle land.
OTB
På den dagen sverget jeg å føre dem ut av Egypt til et land jeg hadde utvalgt for dem, som flyter med melk og honning, det herligste av alle land.
B1930
på den dag løftet jeg min hånd og tilsvor dem at jeg vilde føre dem ut av Egyptens land til et land som jeg hadde utsøkt for dem, et land som flyter med melk og honning, det fagreste av alle land.

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  • Jeremiah 32:22

    You gave them this land that You had sworn to give their fathers, a land flowing with milk and honey.

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  • Ezekiel 20:15

    Moreover, with an uplifted hand I swore to them in the wilderness that I would not bring them into the land that I had given them—a land flowing with milk and honey, the glory of all lands—

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  • Exodus 3:8

    I have come down to rescue them from the hand of the Egyptians and to bring them up out of that land to a good and spacious land, a land flowing with milk and honey—the home of the Canaanites, Hittites, Amorites, Perizzites, Hivites, and Jebusites.

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  • Psalms 48:2

    Beautiful in loftiness, the joy of all the earth, like the peaks of Zaphon is Mount Zion, the city of the great King.

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  • Daniel 8:9

    From one of these horns a little horn emerged and grew extensively toward the south and the east and toward the Beautiful Land.

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  • Zechariah 7:14

    But I scattered them with a whirlwind among all the nations that they had not known, and the land was left desolate behind them so that no one could come or go. Thus they turned the pleasant land into a desolation.”

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  • Deuteronomy 32:8

    When the Most High gave the nations their inheritance, when He divided the sons of man, He set the boundaries of the peoples according to the number of the sons of God.

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  • Deuteronomy 32:13–14

    He made him ride on the heights of the land and fed him the produce of the field. He nourished him with honey from the rock and oil from the flinty crag,

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