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mish.pat H4941

מִשְׁפָּט (mish.pat) means “justice: judgement” in the TBESH Hebrew lexicon from STEPBible.

מִשְׁפָּט Hebrew · H4941 422 tagged occurrences in 406 verses

Pronunciation guide: mish-pawt' Strong’s Hebrew pronunciation spelling.

Lexicon entries

TBESH · H4941G

מִשְׁפָּט · mish.pat · justice: judgement

: judgement/punishment 1) judgment, justice, ordinance 1a) judgment 1a1) act of deciding a case 1a2) place, court, seat of judgment 1a3) process, procedure, litigation (before judges) 1a4) case, cause (presented for judgment) 1a5) sentence, decision (of judgment) 1a6) execution (of judgment) 1a7) time (of judgment) 1b) justice, right, rectitude (attributes of God or man) 1c) ordinance 1d) decision (in law) 1e) right, privilege, due (legal) 1f) proper, fitting, measure, fitness, custom, manner, plan

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TBESH · H4941H

מִשְׁפָּט · mish.pat · justice

: justice/right/righteousness 1) judgment, justice, ordinance 1a) judgment 1a1) act of deciding a case 1a2) place, court, seat of judgment 1a3) process, procedure, litigation (before judges) 1a4) case, cause (presented for judgment) 1a5) sentence, decision (of judgment) 1a6) execution (of judgment) 1a7) time (of judgment) 1b) justice, right, rectitude (attributes of God or man) 1c) ordinance 1d) decision (in law) 1e) right, privilege, due (legal) 1f) proper, fitting, measure, fitness, custom, manner, plan

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TBESH · H4941I

מִשְׁפָּט · mish.pat · justice: rule

: rule/prescription 1) judgment, justice, ordinance 1a) judgment 1a1) act of deciding a case 1a2) place, court, seat of judgment 1a3) process, procedure, litigation (before judges) 1a4) case, cause (presented for judgment) 1a5) sentence, decision (of judgment) 1a6) execution (of judgment) 1a7) time (of judgment) 1b) justice, right, rectitude (attributes of God or man) 1c) ordinance 1d) decision (in law) 1e) right, privilege, due (legal) 1f) proper, fitting, measure, fitness, custom, manner, plan

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TBESH · H4941J

מִשְׁפָּט · mish.pat · justice: custom

: custom/manner 1) judgment, justice, ordinance 1a) judgment 1a1) act of deciding a case 1a2) place, court, seat of judgment 1a3) process, procedure, litigation (before judges) 1a4) case, cause (presented for judgment) 1a5) sentence, decision (of judgment) 1a6) execution (of judgment) 1a7) time (of judgment) 1b) justice, right, rectitude (attributes of God or man) 1c) ordinance 1d) decision (in law) 1e) right, privilege, due (legal) 1f) proper, fitting, measure, fitness, custom, manner, plan

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TBESH · H4941K

מִשְׁפָּט · mish.pat · (Hall of) Judgment

Combined with u.lam (אוּלָם "Hall" H0197H) This name means judgment, sentence

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Strong’s Hebrew dictionary

from H8199 (שָׁפַט); properly, a verdict (favorable or unfavorable) pronounced judicially, especially a sentence or formal decree (human or (participant's) divine law, individual or collective), including the act, the place, the suit, the crime, and the penalty; abstractly, justice, including a participant's right or privilege (statutory or customary), or even a style

KJV glosses: [phrase] adversary, ceremony, charge, [idiom] crime, custom, desert, determination, discretion, disposing, due, fashion, form, to be judged, judgment, just(-ice, -ly), (manner of) law(-ful), manner, measure, (due) order, ordinance, right, sentence, usest, [idiom] worthy, [phrase] wrong.

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How translators render H4941

Counts below follow each translation’s tagged words. A rendering can cover a phrase. Differences in text editions and tagging can produce different totals.

BSB rendering counts
Rendering Count
justice 61
and ordinances 28
my ordinances 18
and justice 12
ordinances 11
judgments 10
what is just 10
judgment 9
of justice 9
prescribed 9
with justice 8
your judgments 8
of judgment 6
for judgment 5
justly 5
into judgment 4
my judgments 4
the judgment 4
their cause 4
according to the ordinance 3
and judgments 3
for justice 3
in judgment 3
ordinance 3
the justice 3
the requirements 3
the right 3
to judge 3
your ordinances 3
according to the regulation 2
and ordinance 2
and procedure 2
and the judgments 2
are just 2
by justice 2
customs 2
deserve 2
his judgments carry 2
his justice 2
his ordinances are 2
is just 2
my case 2
of your judgments 2
the cause 2
the judgments 2
the manner 2
the rights 2
to the ordinances 2
trial 2
what is right 2
worthy 2
about the proper order 1
according to my ordinances 1
according to the custom 1
according to the customs 1
according to the pattern 1
according to the regulations 1
according to the regulations given them 1
according to their own standards 1
according to their specifications 1
according to your justice 1
according to your ordinances 1
against my ordinances 1
an ordinance 1
and 1
and an ordinance 1
and defends the cause 1
and dimensions 1
and his ordinances 1
and its ordinances 1
and judgment 1
and just 1
and my claim 1
and my judgments 1
and my justice will become 1
and the verdict 1
are the ordinances 1
are your judgments 1
as prescribed 1
as was their custom 1
as with 1
as you do 1
be righteous 1
but let justice 1
by his justice 1
by the judgment 1
by the justice 1
by their own standards 1
court 1
decision 1
for a decision 1
from your ordinances 1
her judgment 1
his judgments 1
his ordinances 1
honest 1
in his justice 1
in judging 1
in justice 1
in keeping with the ordinances 1
in my judgments 1
in the judgment 1
in what is right 1
in your judgments 1
is a just 1
is worthy 1
it is a matter of justice 1
its rightful place 1
justice every morning 1
justice for me 1
like 1
manner 1
may my vindication 1
may your judgments 1
measures 1
my cause 1
my decision 1
my just 1
my vindication 1
of crimes 1
of the judgment 1
or dispute 1
or for the custom 1
or ordinances 1
properly 1
receives justice 1
rule 1
rule of life 1
shall your judgment be 1
share 1
she once was full of justice 1
so judgment 1
so justice 1
sort 1
specification 1
standard of law 1
the right of judgment 1
their case 1
their ordinances 1
their prescribed 1
their quotas 1
then justice 1
this charge 1
this judgment 1
to court 1
to execute judgment 1
to judgment 1
to my defense 1
to the punishment 1
to the punishment of 1
unjustly 1
was davids custom 1
when you render judgment 1
with their prescribed 1
with your justice 1
your judgments are 1
your justice 1
your ordinances before me 1
your punishment 1
KJV rendering counts
Rendering Count
judgment 52
of judgment 20
my judgments 18
and judgment 16
and judgments 13
in judgment 13
after the manner 11
the judgment 11
and his judgments 9
judgments 9
and the judgments 8
thy judgments 8
for judgment 7
that which is lawful 7
and my judgments 6
my judgment 5
right 5
their cause 5
the right 4
and an ordinance 3
into judgment 3
manner 3
no judgment 3
to judgment 3
with judgment 3
according to the manner 2
according to the order 2
and all my judgments 2
and in judgment 2
and the ordinances 2
because of thy judgments 2
cause 2
for all his judgments 2
for the judgment 2
for the right 2
his judgment 2
his judgments 2
not the manner 2
not worthy 2
of thy judgments 2
the cause 2
the judgments 2
thee in measure 2
them the manner 2
ye judgment 2
a just 1
a law 1
according to his charge 1
according to the custom 1
according to the fashion 1
according to the judgments 1
according to the ordinance 1
according to their form 1
according to their manner 1
according to their order 1
according to these judgments 1
according to thine ordinances 1
according to this judgment 1
according unto the manner 1
according unto their manner 1
after the manners 1
after the same manner 1
after their manner 1
against my right 1
against thee in judgment 1
against thy judgments 1
all the judgments 1
and according to the manner 1
and according to their deserts 1
and after the manner 1
and all the judgments 1
and from judgment 1
and from thy judgments 1
and if of judgment 1
and justice 1
and my judgment 1
and not by right 1
and of judgment 1
and the cause 1
and the right 1
and thy judgment 1
and thy judgments 1
and unto the judgments 1
are judged 1
as the manner 1
behold they whose judgment 1
both according to their fashions 1
but judgment 1
but let judgment 1
but the whole disposing 1
by judgment 1
by wrong 1
crimes 1
custom 1
due 1
for her judgment 1
for him after the judgment 1
for my determination 1
for thee in judgment 1
for thy judgments 1
for when thy judgments 1
from me and i will make my judgment 1
from thy judgments 1
him not after the due order 1
him to discretion 1
his manner 1
how shall we order 1
in my judgments 1
in the judgment 1
in thy judgments 1
it according to my judgments 1
it according to the manner 1
it with judgment 1
justly 1
let my sentence 1
manner of law 1
manners 1
me according to thy judgment 1
me according to thy judgments 1
me but with judgment 1
me into judgment 1
me my judgment 1
me thy judgments 1
mine adversary 1
mine ordinances 1
my right 1
nor the judgments 1
not in judgment 1
not in my judgments 1
not into judgment 1
not judgment 1
not the judgment 1
not the ordinance 1
of it and according to all the ceremonies 1
of me the ordinances 1
of the judgment 1
on judgment 1
or after their ordinances 1
or cause 1
perverting of judgment 1
sentence 1
that thy judgments 1
the manner 1
thee according to their judgments 1
thee and according to the judgment 1
thee and let thy judgments 1
thee into judgment 1
their judgment 1
their judgments 1
them after the manner 1
them for judgment 1
them my judgments 1
them with judgment 1
themselves after their manner 1
then judgment 1
therefore is judgment 1
thereof and according to all the fashion 1
this will be the manner 1
thou my cause 1
thou this to be right 1
thus judgment 1
thy judgment 1
to her for judgment 1
to my judgment 1
to these judgments 1
to us judgment 1
to you to judgment 1
unto judgment 1
unto me as thou usest 1
unto them what manner 1
unto thy judgments 1
upon them the judgment 1
whose right 1
with discretion 1
with her after the manner 1
with thee into judgment 1
with you in the judgment 1
without right 1
worthy 1
worthy of 1
wrongfully 1

Verses containing H4941

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  1. Isaiah 58:2 · BSB · 2 occurrences

    For day after day they seek Me and delight to know My ways, like a nation that does what is right and does not forsake the justice of their God. They ask Me for righteous judgments; they delight in the nearness of God.”

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  2. Isaiah 59:8 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    The way of peace they have not known, and there is no justice in their tracks. They have turned them into crooked paths; no one who treads on them will know peace.

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  3. Isaiah 59:9 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    Therefore justice is far from us, and righteousness does not reach us. We hope for light, but there is darkness; for brightness, but we walk in gloom.

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  4. Isaiah 59:11 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    We all growl like bears and moan like doves. We hope for justice, but find none, for salvation, but it is far from us.

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  5. Isaiah 59:14 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    So justice is turned away, and righteousness stands at a distance. For truth has stumbled in the public square, and honesty cannot enter.

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  6. Isaiah 59:15 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    Truth is missing, and whoever turns from evil becomes prey. The LORD looked and was displeased that there was no justice.

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  7. Isaiah 61:8 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    For I, the LORD, love justice; I hate robbery and iniquity; in My faithfulness I will give them their recompense and make an everlasting covenant with them.

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  8. Jeremiah 1:16 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    I will pronounce My judgments against them for all their wickedness, because they have forsaken Me, and they have burned incense to other gods and worshiped the works of their own hands.

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  9. Jeremiah 4:2 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    and if you can swear, ‘As surely as the LORD lives,’ in truth, in justice, and in righteousness, then the nations will be blessed by Him, and in Him they will glory.”

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  10. Jeremiah 4:12 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    a wind too strong for that comes from Me. Now I also pronounce judgments against them.”

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  11. Jeremiah 5:1 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    “Go up and down the streets of Jerusalem. Look now and take note; search her squares. If you can find a single person, anyone who acts justly, anyone who seeks the truth, then I will forgive the city.

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  12. Jeremiah 5:4 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    Then I said, “They are only the poor; they have played the fool, for they do not know the way of the LORD, the justice of their God.

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  13. Jeremiah 5:5 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    I will go to the powerful and speak to them. Surely they know the way of the LORD, the justice of their God.” But they too, with one accord, had broken the yoke and torn off the chains.

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  14. Jeremiah 5:28 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    They have grown fat and sleek, and have excelled in the deeds of the wicked. They have not taken up the cause of the fatherless, that they might prosper; nor have they defended the rights of the needy.

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  15. Jeremiah 7:5 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    For if you really correct your ways and deeds, if you act justly toward one another,

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  16. Jeremiah 8:7 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    Even the stork in the sky knows her appointed seasons. The turtledove, the swift, and the thrush keep their time of migration, but My people do not know the requirements of the LORD.

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  17. Jeremiah 9:24 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    But let him who boasts boast in this, that he understands and knows Me, that I am the LORD, who exercises loving devotion, justice and righteousness on the earth—for I delight in these things,” declares the LORD.

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    Source alternate reference: 9.23

  18. Jeremiah 10:24 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    Correct me, O LORD, but only with justice—not in Your anger, or You will bring me to nothing.

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  19. Jeremiah 12:1 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    Righteous are You, O LORD, when I plead before You. Yet about Your judgments I wish to contend with You: Why does the way of the wicked prosper? Why do all the faithless live at ease?

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  20. Jeremiah 17:11 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    Like a partridge hatching eggs it did not lay is the man who makes a fortune unjustly. In the middle of his days his riches will desert him, and in the end he will be the fool.”

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  21. Jeremiah 21:12 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    O house of David, this is what the LORD says: ‘Administer justice every morning, and rescue the victim of robbery from the hand of his oppressor, or My wrath will go forth like fire and burn with no one to extinguish it because of their evil deeds.

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  22. Jeremiah 22:3 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    This is what the LORD says: Administer justice and righteousness. Rescue the victim of robbery from the hand of his oppressor. Do no wrong or violence to the foreigner, the fatherless, or the widow. Do not shed innocent blood in this place.

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  23. Jeremiah 22:13 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    “Woe to him who builds his palace by unrighteousness, and his upper rooms without justice, who makes his countrymen serve without pay, and fails to pay their wages,

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  24. Jeremiah 22:15 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    Does it make you a king to excel in cedar? Did not your father have food and drink? He administered justice and righteousness, and so it went well with him.

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  25. Jeremiah 23:5 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    Behold, the days are coming, declares the LORD, when I will raise up for David a righteous Branch, and He will reign wisely as King and will administer justice and righteousness in the land.

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  26. Jeremiah 26:11 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    Then the priests and prophets said to the officials and all the people, “This man is worthy of death, for he has prophesied against this city, as you have heard with your own ears!”

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  27. Jeremiah 26:16 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    Then the officials and all the people told the priests and prophets, “This man is not worthy of death, for he has spoken to us in the name of the LORD our God!”

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  28. Jeremiah 30:11 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    For I am with you to save you, declares the LORD. Though I will completely destroy all the nations to which I have scattered you, I will not completely destroy you. Yet I will discipline you justly, and will by no means leave you unpunished.”

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  29. Jeremiah 30:18 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    This is what the LORD says: “I will restore the fortunes of Jacob’s tents and have compassion on his dwellings. And the city will be rebuilt on her own ruins, and the palace will stand in its rightful place.

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  30. Jeremiah 32:7 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    Behold! Hanamel, the son of your uncle Shallum, is coming to you to say, ‘Buy for yourself my field in Anathoth, for you have the right of redemption to buy it.’

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  31. Jeremiah 32:8 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    Then, as the LORD had said, my cousin Hanamel came to me in the courtyard of the guard and urged me, ‘Please buy my field in Anathoth in the land of Benjamin, for you own the right of inheritance and redemption. Buy it for yourself.’” Then I knew that this was the word of the LORD.

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  32. Jeremiah 33:15 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    In those days and at that time I will cause to sprout for David a righteous Branch, and He will administer justice and righteousness in the land.

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  33. Jeremiah 39:5 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    But the army of the Chaldeans pursued them and overtook Zedekiah in the plains of Jericho. They seized him and brought him up to Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon at Riblah in the land of Hamath, where he pronounced judgment on him.

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  34. Jeremiah 46:28 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    And you, My servant Jacob, do not be afraid, declares the LORD, for I am with you. Though I will completely destroy all the nations to which I have banished you, I will not completely destroy you. Yet I will discipline you justly, and will by no means leave you unpunished.”

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  35. Jeremiah 48:21 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    Judgment has come upon the high plain—upon Holon, Jahzah, and Mephaath,

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  36. Jeremiah 48:47 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    Yet in the latter days I will restore Moab from captivity,” declares the LORD. Here ends the judgment on Moab.

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  37. Jeremiah 49:12 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    For this is what the LORD says: “If those who do not deserve to drink the cup must drink it, can you possibly remain unpunished? You will not go unpunished, for you must drink it too.

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  38. Jeremiah 51:9 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    “We tried to heal Babylon, but she could not be healed. Abandon her! Let each of us go to his own land, for her judgment extends to the sky and reaches to the clouds.”

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  39. Jeremiah 52:9 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    The Chaldeans seized the king and brought him up to the king of Babylon at Riblah in the land of Hamath, where he pronounced judgment on Zedekiah.

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  40. Lamentations 3:35 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    to deny a man justice before the Most High,

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  41. Lamentations 3:59 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    You have seen, O LORD, the wrong done to me; vindicate my cause!

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  42. Ezekiel 5:6 · BSB · 2 occurrences

    But she has rebelled against My ordinances more wickedly than the nations, and against My statutes worse than the countries around her. For her people have rejected My ordinances and have not walked in My statutes.’

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  43. Ezekiel 5:7 · BSB · 2 occurrences

    Therefore this is what the Lord GOD says: ‘You have been more insubordinate than the nations around you; you have not walked in My statutes or kept My ordinances, nor have you even conformed to the ordinances of the nations around you.’

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  44. Ezekiel 5:8 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    Therefore this is what the Lord GOD says: ‘Behold, I Myself am against you, Jerusalem, and I will execute judgments among you in the sight of the nations.

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  45. Ezekiel 7:23 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    Forge the chain, for the land is full of crimes of bloodshed, and the city is full of violence.

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  46. Ezekiel 7:27 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    The king will mourn, the prince will be clothed with despair, and the hands of the people of the land will tremble. I will deal with them according to their conduct, and I will judge them by their own standards. Then they will know that I am the LORD.’”

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  47. Ezekiel 11:12 · BSB · 2 occurrences

    Then you will know that I am the LORD. For you have neither followed My statutes nor practiced My ordinances, but you have conformed to the ordinances of the nations around you.”

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  48. Ezekiel 11:20 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    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.

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  49. Ezekiel 16:38 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    And I will sentence you to the punishment of women who commit adultery and those who shed blood; so I will bring upon you the wrath of your bloodshed and jealousy.

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  50. Ezekiel 18:5 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    Now suppose a man is righteous and does what is just and right:

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