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Son of man, you must warn them. Are you ready to do that? Make them remember all the disgusting things that their ancestors did.

Say to them, “This is what the Almighty Lord says: On the day that I chose Israel's people to belong to me, I made a promise to all Jacob's descendants.[a] In the land of Egypt, I showed them who I am. I promised them, ‘I am the Lord your God.’ On that day, I promised them that I would bring them out of Egypt. I promised to take them to a land that I had chosen for them. That land would give them plenty of good food and drink, enough for everyone. It was more beautiful than any other land.

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Footnotes

  1. 20:5 God gave Jacob the new name ‘Israel’. So Israel's people are Jacob's descendants.