21 tell them, ‘This is what the Lord God says: I am going to take the Israelites out of the nations where they have gone.(A) I will gather them from all around and bring them into their own land. 22 I will make them one nation in the land,(B) on the mountains of Israel, and one king will rule over all of them.(C) They will no longer be two nations and will no longer be divided into two kingdoms. 23 They will not defile themselves anymore with their idols,(D) their abhorrent things, and all their transgressions.(E) I will save them from all their apostasies by which[a] they sinned,(F) and I will cleanse them. Then they will be my people, and I will be their God.(G)

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  1. 37:23 Some Hb mss, LXX, Sym; other Hb mss read their settlements where

21 and say to them, ‘This is what the Sovereign Lord says: I will take the Israelites out of the nations where they have gone. I will gather them from all around and bring them back into their own land.(A) 22 I will make them one nation in the land, on the mountains of Israel.(B) There will be one king over all of them and they will never again be two nations or be divided into two kingdoms.(C) 23 They will no longer defile(D) themselves with their idols and vile images or with any of their offenses, for I will save them from all their sinful backsliding,[a](E) and I will cleanse them. They will be my people, and I will be their God.(F)

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  1. Ezekiel 37:23 Many Hebrew manuscripts (see also Septuagint); most Hebrew manuscripts all their dwelling places where they sinned