Therefore thus says the Lord GOD; Because you multiplied more than the nations that are round about you, and have not walked in my statutes, neither have kept my ordinances, neither have done according to the ordinances of the nations that are round about you;
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George Leo Haydock
AD 1849
Surpassed in numbers, (Symmachus) or rather in wickedness. (Chaldean) (Calmet)
Septuagint, "because you have been incited by the "(Haydock)
Judgments. You have been less attached to my service than the Gentiles have been to their idols. Some think that not is here superfluous, as it is omitted chap. xi. 12. But it is wrong to imitate the Gentiles, and worse to surpass them in crimes.