² tn Or “a statute forever.”

¹ tn Heb “songs were your statutes to me.”

¹ tn Heb “the way of your statutes.”

² tn Heb “a statute and a judgment.”

¹ tn Heb “a statute of judgment” (so KJV).

⁴ tn Or “you must have one statute.”

² tn Or “statutes” (so NAB, NASB, NRSV); NIV “decrees”; NLT “laws.”

² tn Heb “and in the statutes of life he walks.”

¹ tn Heb “may my heart be complete in your statutes.”

¹ tn Heb “because a statute for Israel [is] it.”

¹ tn Heb “And this shall be for you to a statute of eternity” (cf. v. 29a above). cf. NASB “a permanent statute”; NIV “a lasting ordinance.”

² tn Heb “which I commanded him in Horeb concerning all Israel, statutes and ordinances.”

² tn Heb “and my statutes they will guard and they will do them.”

³ tn Heb “[it is] a statute for Israel to give thanks to the name of the Lord.”

¹ tn Heb “a statute and a judgment.” The expression is a hendiadys.

¹ tn Heb “to not do from the statutes of the detestable acts.”

² tn Heb “and my statutes you shall keep [or “watch; guard”] to walk in them.”

¹ tn Heb “statute” (cf. 10:9, 11); cf. KJV, NAB, NASB, NRSV “due”; NIV “share”; NLT “regular share.”

⁶ tn This translation interprets the two nouns as a hendiadys: “a statute and an ordinance” becomes “a binding ordinance.”

² tn The Hebrew term חֻקּוֹת (khuqqot; translated “statutes” elsewhere in this chapter) is normally feminine. Here Ezekiel changes the form to masculine: חֻקִּים (khuqqim). Further, they are not called “my decrees” as vv. 11 and 13 refer to “my statutes.” The change is a signal that Ezekiel is not talking about the same statutes in vv. 11 and 13, which lead to life.