OLD TESTAMENT

Ezekiel 20:14

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But I worked for my name’s sake, that it should not be profaned in the sight of the nations, in whose sight I brought them out.

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Verse 14. But. Lit. “And I did for,” and so forth This motive caused me to spare them. Bible.—I punished only the most guilty adorers of the calf, and murmurers, and so forth Numbers 14:28. Calmet.—Some were always preserved for a succession. verse 9, 22. Worthington.

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