King James Version
Ezekiel 20:20 in the King James Version says “And hallow my sabbaths; and they shall be a sign between me and you, that ye may know that I am the LORD your God.” — study this verse from Ezekiel chapter 20 with commentary, cross-references, and original Hebrew word analysis.
“And hallow my sabbaths; and they shall be a sign between me and you, that ye may know that I am the LORD your God.”
Ezekiel 20:20 · KJV
But I said unto their children in the wilderness, Walk ye not in the statutes of your fathers, neither observe their judgments, nor defile yourselves with their idols:
I am the LORD your God; walk in my statutes, and keep my judgments, and do them;
And hallow my sabbaths; and they shall be a sign between me and you, that ye may know that I am the LORD your God.
Notwithstanding the children rebelled against me: they walked not in my statutes, neither kept my judgments to do them, which if a man do, he shall even live in them; they polluted my sabbaths: then I said, I would pour out my fury upon them, to accomplish my anger against them in the wilderness.
Nevertheless I withdrew mine hand, and wrought for my name's sake, that it should not be polluted in the sight of the heathen, in whose sight I brought them forth.
KJV Study — Public Domain
properly, self (but generally used to point out more definitely the object of a verb or preposition, even or namely)
“And hallow”
H6942to be (causatively, make, pronounce or observe as) clean (ceremonially or morally)
to exist, i.e., be or become, come to pass (always emphatic, and not a mere copula or auxiliary)
“and they shall be a sign”
H226a signal (literally or figuratively), as a flag, beacon, monument, omen, prodigy, evidence, etc
between (repeated before each noun, often with other particles); also as a conjunction, either...or
between (repeated before each noun, often with other particles); also as a conjunction, either...or
“between me and you that ye may know”
H3045to know (properly, to ascertain by seeing); used in a great variety of senses, figuratively, literally, euphemistically and inferentially (including o
(by implication) very widely used as a relative conjunction or adverb (as below); often largely modified by other particles annexed
“that I am the LORD”
H3068(the) self-existent or eternal; jeho-vah, jewish national name of god
“your God”
H430gods in the ordinary sense; but specifically used (in the plural thus, especially with the article) of the supreme god; occasionally applied by way of
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