Ezekiel 20:18
Parallel Strong's
Berean Study Bible
In the wilderness I said to their children: ‘Do not walk in the statutes of your fathers or keep their ordinances or defile yourselves with their idols.

Young's Literal Translation
And I say to their sons in the wilderness: In the statutes of your fathers ye walk not, And their judgments ye do not observe, And with their idols ye are not defiled.

King James Bible
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:

Hebrew
In the wilderness
בַּמִּדְבָּ֔ר (bam·miḏ·bār)
Preposition-b, Article | Noun - masculine singular
Strong's 4057: A pasture, a desert, speech

I said
וָאֹמַ֤ר (wā·’ō·mar)
Conjunctive waw | Verb - Qal - Consecutive imperfect - first person common singular
Strong's 559: To utter, say

to
אֶל־ (’el-)
Preposition
Strong's 413: Near, with, among, to

their children:
בְּנֵיהֶם֙ (bə·nê·hem)
Noun - masculine plural construct | third person masculine plural
Strong's 1121: A son

“Do not
אַל־ (’al-)
Adverb
Strong's 408: Not

walk
תֵּלֵ֔כוּ (tê·lê·ḵū)
Verb - Qal - Imperfect - second person masculine plural
Strong's 1980: To go, come, walk

in the statutes
בְּחוּקֵּ֤י (bə·ḥūq·qê)
Preposition-b | Noun - masculine plural construct
Strong's 2706: Something prescribed or owed, a statute

of your fathers
אֲבֽוֹתֵיכֶם֙ (’ă·ḇō·w·ṯê·ḵem)
Noun - masculine plural construct | second person masculine plural
Strong's 1: Father

or keep
תִּשְׁמֹ֑רוּ (tiš·mō·rū)
Verb - Qal - Imperfect - second person masculine plural
Strong's 8104: To hedge about, guard, to protect, attend to

their ordinances
מִשְׁפְּטֵיהֶ֖ם (miš·pə·ṭê·hem)
Noun - masculine plural construct | third person masculine plural
Strong's 4941: A verdict, a sentence, formal decree, divine law, penalty, justice, privilege, style

or defile
תִּטַּמָּֽאוּ׃ (tiṭ·ṭam·mā·’ū)
Verb - Hitpael - Imperfect - second person masculine plural
Strong's 2930: To be or become unclean

yourselves with their idols.
וּבְגִלּוּלֵיהֶ֖ם (ū·ḇə·ḡil·lū·lê·hem)
Conjunctive waw, Preposition-b | Noun - masculine plural construct | third person masculine plural
Strong's 1544: A log, an idol

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                           
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