Ezekiel 20:11
Good News Translation
I gave them my commands and taught them my laws, which bring life to anyone who obeys them.

New Revised Standard Version
I gave them my statutes and showed them my ordinances, by whose observance everyone shall live.

Contemporary English Version
I gave them my laws and teachings, so they would know how to live right.

New American Bible
Then I gave them my statutes and made known to them my ordinances, so that everyone who keeps them has life through them.

Douay-Rheims Bible
And I gave them my statutes, and I shewed them my judgments, which if a man do, he shall live in them.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

And I gave them my statutes, and I shewed them my judgments, which if a man do, he shall live in them.

I gave

Deuteronomy 4:8 For what other nation is there so renowned that hath ceremonies, and just judgments, and all the law, which I will set forth this day before our eyes?

Nehemiah 9:13,14 Thou camest down also to mount Sinai, and didst speak with them from heaven, and thou gavest them right judgments, and the law of truth, ceremonies, and good precepts. . . .

Psalm 147:19,20 Who declareth his word to Jacob: his justices and his judgments to Israel. . . .

Romans 3:2 Much every way. First indeed, because the words of God were committed to them.

shewed them [heb] made them to know

Ezekiel 20:13,21 But the house of Israel provoked me in the desert: they walked not in my statutes, and they cast away my judgments, which if a man do he shall live in them: and they grievously violated my sabbaths. I said therefore that I would pour out my indignation upon them in the desert, and would consume them. . . .

Leviticus 18:5 Keep my laws and my judgments: which if a man do, he shall live in them, I am the Lord.

Deuteronomy 20:15,16 So shalt thou do to all cities that are at a great distance from thee, and are not of these cities which thou shalt receive in possession. . . .

Luke 10:28 And he said to him: Thou hast answered right. This do: and thou shalt live.

Romans 10:5 For Moses wrote that the justice which is of the law: The man that shall do it shall live by it.

Galatians 3:12 But the law is not of faith: but he that doth those things shall live in them.

Context
Israel's Rebellion in Egypt
10Therefore I brought them out from the land of Egypt, and brought them into the desert. 11And I gave them my statutes, and I shewed them my judgments, which if a man do, he shall live in them.12Moreover I gave them also my sabbaths, to be a sign between me and them: and that they might know that I am the Lord that sanctify them.…
Cross References
Luke 10:28
And he said to him: Thou hast answered right. This do: and thou shalt live.

Romans 10:5
For Moses wrote that the justice which is of the law: The man that shall do it shall live by it.

Leviticus 18:5
Keep my laws and my judgments: which if a man do, he shall live in them, I am the Lord.

Deuteronomy 4:1
And now, O Israel, hear the commandments and judgments which I teach thee: that doing them, thou mayst live, and entering in mayst possess the land which the Lord the God of your fathers will give you.

Ezekiel 20:13
But the house of Israel provoked me in the desert: they walked not in my statutes, and they cast away my judgments, which if a man do he shall live in them: and they grievously violated my sabbaths. I said therefore that I would pour out my indignation upon them in the desert, and would consume them.

Ezekiel 33:15
And if that wicked man restore the pledge, and render what he had robbed, and walk in the commandments of life, and do no unjust thing: he shall surely live, and shall not die.

Ezekiel 20:10
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