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You were PERFECT in your ways from the day you were created

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NIV, Ezekiel 28:

15 You were blameless in your ways from the day you were created till wickedness was found in you.
Strong's Hebrew: 8549. תָּמִים (tamim) — 91 Occurrences

Brown-Driver-Briggs

  1. complete, whole, entire
  2. whole, sound healthful,
  3. complete, entire, of time
  4. sound, wholesome, unimpaired, innocent, having integrity: of God's way
  5. as neuter adjective = substantive what is complete, entirely in accord with truth and fact:
New King James Version:

You were perfect in your ways from the day you were created, Till iniquity was found in you.
This 'perfect' state was temporary until another time. The word 'blameless' avoids the absolute connotations that 'perfect' has in modern English.

On Biblehub, 16 translations used "blameless"; 13 used "perfect".