Ezekiel 20:6
ContextNET © | On that day I swore 1 to bring them out of the land of Egypt to a land which I had picked out 2 for them, a land flowing with milk and honey, 3 the most beautiful of all lands. |
NIV © | On that day I swore to them that I would bring them out of Egypt into a land I had searched out for them, a land flowing with milk and honey, the most beautiful of all lands. |
NASB © | on that day I swore to them, to bring them out from the land of Egypt into a land that I had selected for them, flowing with milk and honey, which is the glory of all lands. |
NLT © | I promised that I would bring her and her descendants out of Egypt to a land I had discovered and explored for them––a good land, a land flowing with milk and honey, the best of all lands anywhere. |
MSG © | On the same day that I raised my hand in the solemn oath, I promised them that I would take them out of the country of Egypt and bring them into a country that I had searched out just for them, a country flowing with milk and honey, a jewel of a country. |
BBE © | In that day I gave my oath to take them out of the land of Egypt into a land which I had been searching out for them, a land flowing with milk and honey, the glory of all lands: |
NRSV © | On that day I swore to them that I would bring them out of the land of Egypt into a land that I had searched out for them, a land flowing with milk and honey, the most glorious of all lands. |
NKJV © | "On that day I raised My hand in an oath to them, to bring them out of the land of Egypt into a land that I had searched out for them, ‘flowing with milk and honey,’ the glory of all lands. |
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NET © | On that day I swore 1 to bring them out of the land of Egypt to a land which I had picked out 2 for them, a land flowing with milk and honey, 3 the most beautiful of all lands. |
NET © Notes |
1 tn Heb “I lifted up my hand to them.” 2 tn Or “searched out.” The Hebrew word is used to describe the activity of the spies in “spying out” the land of Canaan (Num 13-14); cf. KJV “I had espied for them.” 3 sn The phrase “a land flowing with milk and honey,” a figure of speech describing the land’s abundant fertility, occurs in v. 15 as well as Exod 3:8, 17; 13:5; 33:3; Lev 20:24; Num 13:27; Deut 6:3; 11:9; 26:9; 27:3; Josh 5:6; Jer 11:5; 32:23 (see also Deut 1:25; 8:7-9). |