Verse 24

Do not defile yourselves by any of these practices, for the nations I am driving out before you have defiled themselves by all these things.

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  • Deut 18:12 : 12 For anyone who does these things is detestable to the LORD. Because of these detestable practices, the LORD your God is driving out these nations before you.
  • Lev 18:30 : 30 So keep my charge not to practice any of the abominable customs that were done before you, so you do not defile yourselves by them. I am the LORD your God.
  • Lev 20:22-23 : 22 You shall faithfully keep all my statutes and all my judgments and obey them, so that the land to which I am bringing you to live will not vomit you out. 23 Do not follow the customs of the nations that I am driving out before you. Because they did all these things, I abhorred them.
  • Deut 12:31 : 31 You must not worship the Lord your God in their way, because they practice for their gods every abomination that the Lord hates. They even burn their sons and daughters in the fire as sacrifices to their gods.
  • Lev 18:3 : 3 You must not behave like the people of Egypt, where you used to live, or like the people of Canaan, where I am bringing you. You must not follow their practices.
  • Lev 18:6-9 : 6 No one is to approach any close relative to have sexual relations. I am the LORD. 7 Do not dishonor your father by uncovering your mother’s nakedness. She is your mother; you must not have sexual relations with her. 8 Do not have sexual relations with your father’s wife; that would dishonor your father. 9 Do not have sexual relations with your sister, either your father’s daughter or your mother’s daughter, whether born in the same household or elsewhere. 10 Do not have sexual relations with your son’s daughter or your daughter’s daughter, for that would dishonor yourself. 11 Do not have sexual relations with the daughter of your father’s wife, born to your father; she is your sister. 12 Do not have sexual relations with your father’s sister; she is your father’s close relative. 13 Do not have sexual relations with your mother’s sister, because she is your mother’s close relative. 14 Do not dishonor your father’s brother by approaching his wife to have sexual relations; she is your aunt. 15 Do not have sexual relations with your daughter-in-law. She is your son’s wife; you must not uncover her nakedness. 16 Do not have sexual relations with your brother’s wife; that would dishonor your brother. 17 Do not have sexual relations with both a woman and her daughter. Do not take her son’s daughter or her daughter’s daughter to uncover their nakedness; they are her close relatives. That is wickedness. 18 Do not take your wife’s sister as a rival wife and have sexual relations with her while your wife is living. 19 Do not approach a woman to have sexual relations with her during the uncleanness of her monthly period. 20 Do not have sexual relations with your neighbor’s wife and defile yourself with her. 21 Do not give any of your children to be sacrificed to Molech, for you must not profane the name of your God. I am the LORD. 22 Do not have sexual relations with a man as one does with a woman; that is detestable. 23 Do not have sexual relations with an animal and defile yourself with it. A woman must not present herself to an animal to have sexual relations with it; that is a perversion.
  • Jer 44:4 : 4 I sent you all my servants the prophets, rising early and sending them, saying: 'Do not do this detestable thing that I hate.'
  • Matt 15:18-20 : 18 But the things that come out of the mouth come from the heart, and these defile a person. 19 For out of the heart come evil thoughts, murders, adulteries, sexual immoralities, thefts, false testimonies, and slanders. 20 These are the things that defile a person, but eating with unwashed hands does not defile them.”
  • Mark 7:10-23 : 10 For Moses said, 'Honor your father and your mother,' and, 'Whoever speaks evil of father or mother must be put to death.' 11 But you say, 'If anyone says to his father or mother, "Whatever help you might have received from me is Corban"' (that is, devoted to God), 12 then you no longer permit him to do anything for his father or mother. 13 You nullify the word of God by your tradition that you have handed down. And you do many things like that." 14 Then He called the crowd to Him and said, "Listen to Me, all of you, and understand: 15 There is nothing outside a person that can defile him by going into him, but the things that come out of him are what defile him. 16 If anyone has ears to hear, let him hear." 17 When He went into the house away from the crowd, His disciples asked Him about the parable. 18 And He said to them, "Are you also without understanding? Do you not realize that whatever goes into a person from outside cannot defile him? 19 For it does not enter his heart but his stomach, and then it goes out into the latrine." (In saying this, He declared all foods clean.) 20 And He continued, "What comes out of a person is what defiles him. 21 For from within, out of the human heart, come evil thoughts, sexual immoralities, thefts, murders, 22 adulteries, greed, wickedness, deceit, lewdness, envy, slander, arrogance, and foolishness. 23 All these evils come from within and defile a person.
  • 1 Cor 3:17 : 17 If anyone destroys God’s temple, God will destroy that person; for God’s temple is holy, and you are that temple.