Deuteronomy 18:9

American Standard Version (1901)

When thou art come into the land which Jehovah thy God giveth thee, thou shalt not learn to do after the abominations of those nations.

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Referenced Verses

  • Deut 12:29-31 : 29 When Jehovah thy God shall cut off the nations from before thee, whither thou goest in to dispossess them, and thou dispossessest them, and dwellest in their land; 30 take heed to thyself that thou be not ensnared to follow them, after that they are destroyed from before thee; and that thou inquire not after their gods, saying, How do these nations serve their gods? even so will I do likewise. 31 Thou shalt not do so unto Jehovah thy God: for every abomination to Jehovah, which he hateth, have they done unto their gods; for even their sons and their daughters do they burn in the fire to their gods.
  • Lev 18:26-27 : 26 Ye therefore shall keep my statutes and mine ordinances, and shall not do any of these abominations; neither the home-born, nor the stranger that sojourneth among you; 27 (for all these abominations have the men of the land done, that were before you, and the land is defiled);
  • Lev 18:30 : 30 Therefore shall ye keep my charge, that ye practise not any of these abominable customs, which were practised before you, and that ye defile not yourselves therein: I am Jehovah your God.

Similar Verses (AI)

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  • Deut 20:18
    82%

    18that they teach you not to do after all their abominations, which they have done unto their gods; so would ye sin against Jehovah your God.

  • Deut 18:10-14
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    82%

    10There shall not be found with thee any one that maketh his son or his daughter to pass through the fire, one that useth divination, one that practiseth augury, or an enchanter, or a sorcerer,

    11or a charmer, or a consulter with a familiar spirit, or a wizard, or a necromancer.

    12For whosoever doeth these things is an abomination unto Jehovah: and because of these abominations Jehovah thy God doth drive them out from before thee.

    13Thou shalt be perfect with Jehovah thy God.

    14For these nations, that thou shalt dispossess, hearken unto them that practise augury, and unto diviners; but as for thee, Jehovah thy God hath not suffered thee so to do.

  • Lev 18:24
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    24Defile not ye yourselves in any of these things: for in all these the nations are defiled which I cast out from before you;

  • Deut 12:29-31
    3 verses
    79%

    29When Jehovah thy God shall cut off the nations from before thee, whither thou goest in to dispossess them, and thou dispossessest them, and dwellest in their land;

    30take heed to thyself that thou be not ensnared to follow them, after that they are destroyed from before thee; and that thou inquire not after their gods, saying, How do these nations serve their gods? even so will I do likewise.

    31Thou shalt not do so unto Jehovah thy God: for every abomination to Jehovah, which he hateth, have they done unto their gods; for even their sons and their daughters do they burn in the fire to their gods.

  • Lev 18:26-30
    5 verses
    79%

    26Ye therefore shall keep my statutes and mine ordinances, and shall not do any of these abominations; neither the home-born, nor the stranger that sojourneth among you;

    27(for all these abominations have the men of the land done, that were before you, and the land is defiled);

    28that the land vomit not you out also, when ye defile it, as it vomited out the nation that was before you.

    29For whosoever shall do any of these abominations, even the souls that do them shall be cut off from among their people.

    30Therefore shall ye keep my charge, that ye practise not any of these abominable customs, which were practised before you, and that ye defile not yourselves therein: I am Jehovah your God.

  • Lev 18:3
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    3After the doings of the land of Egypt, wherein ye dwelt, shall ye not do: and after the doings of the land of Canaan, whither I bring you, shall ye not do; neither shall ye walk in their statutes.

  • Lev 20:23
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    23And ye shall not walk in the customs of the nation, which I cast out before you: for they did all these things, and therefore I abhorred them.

  • Exod 34:15-17
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    77%

    15lest thou make a covenant with the inhabitants of the land, and they play the harlot after their gods, and sacrifice unto their gods, and one call thee and thou eat of his sacrifice;

    16and thou take of their daughters unto thy sons, and their daughters play the harlot after their gods, and make thy sons play the harlot after their gods.

    17Thou shalt make thee no molten gods.

  • Deut 7:25-26
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    77%

    25The graven images of their gods shall ye burn with fire: thou shalt not covet the silver or the gold that is on them, nor take it unto thee, lest thou be snared therein; for it is an abomination to Jehovah thy God.

    26And thou shalt not bring an abomination into thy house, and become a devoted thing like unto it: thou shalt utterly detest it, and thou shalt utterly abhor it; for it is a devoted thing.

  • Deut 14:3
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    3Thou shalt not eat any abominable thing.

  • Deut 12:4
    76%

    4Ye shall not do so unto Jehovah your God.

  • Deut 13:11
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    11And all Israel shall hear, and fear, and shall do not more any such wickedness as this is in the midst of thee.

  • Josh 23:7
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    7that ye come not among these nations, these that remain among you; neither make mention of the name of their gods, nor cause to swear [by them], neither serve them, nor bow down yourselves unto them;

  • Lev 18:21-22
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    21And thou shalt not give any of thy seed to make them pass through [the fire] to Molech; neither shalt thou profane the name of thy God: I am Jehovah.

    22Thou shalt not lie with mankind, as with womankind: it is abomination.

  • Deut 25:16
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    16For all that do such things, [even] all that do unrighteously, are an abomination unto Jehovah thy God.

  • Deut 13:14
    74%

    14then shalt thou inquire, and make search, and ask diligently; and, behold, if it be truth, and the thing certain, that such abomination is wrought in the midst of thee,

  • Deut 17:4
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    4and it be told thee, and thou hast heard of it, then shalt thou inquire diligently; and, behold, if it be true, and the thing certain, that such abomination is wrought in Israel,

  • Deut 12:25
    74%

    25Thou shalt not eat it; that it may go well with thee, and with thy children after thee, when thou shalt do that which is right in the eyes of Jehovah.

  • Deut 17:1-2
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    74%

    1Thou shalt not sacrifice unto Jehovah thy God an ox, or a sheep, wherein is a blemish, [or] anything evil; for that is an abomination unto Jehovah thy God.

    2If there be found in the midst of thee, within any of thy gates which Jehovah thy God giveth thee, man or woman, that doeth that which is evil in the sight of Jehovah thy God, in transgressing his covenant,

  • Exod 22:18
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    18Thou shalt not suffer a sorceress to live.

  • Lev 19:31
    74%

    31Turn ye not unto them that have familiar spirits, nor unto the wizards; seek them not out, to be defiled by them: I am Jehovah your God.

  • Lev 19:29
    74%

    29Profane not thy daughter, to make her a harlot; lest the land fall to whoredom, and the land become full of wickedness.

  • Deut 6:14
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    14Ye shall not go after other gods, of the gods of the peoples that are round about you;

  • Exod 34:12
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    12Take heed to thyself, lest thou make a covenant with the inhabitants of the land whither thou goest, lest it be for a snare in the midst of thee:

  • Deut 4:25
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    25When thou shalt beget children, and children's children, and ye shall have been long in the land, and shall corrupt yourselves, and make a graven image in the form of anything, and shall do that which is evil in the sight of Jehovah thy God, to provoke him to anger;

  • Jer 10:2
    74%

    2thus saith Jehovah, Learn not the way of the nations, and be not dismayed at the signs of heaven; for the nations are dismayed at them.

  • Exod 23:32
    73%

    32Thou shalt make no covenant with them, nor with their gods.

  • Ps 81:9
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    9There shall no strange god be in thee; Neither shalt thou worship any foreign god.

  • Deut 19:1
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    1When Jehovah thy God shall cut off the nations, whose land Jehovah thy God giveth thee, and thou succeedest them, and dwellest in their cities, and in their houses;

  • Deut 7:3
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    3neither shalt thou make marriages with them; thy daughter thou shalt not give unto his son, nor his daughter shalt thou take unto thy son.

  • Deut 29:17
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    17and ye have seen their abominations, and their idols, wood and stone, silver and gold, which were among them);

  • Josh 23:12
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    12Else if ye do at all go back, and cleave unto the remnant of these nations, even these that remain among you, and make marriages with them, and go in unto them, and they to you;

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    7of the gods of the peoples that are round about you, nigh unto thee, or far off from thee, from the one end of the earth even unto the other end of the earth;

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    9When thou goest forth in camp against thine enemies, then thou shalt keep thee from every evil thing.

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    4Turn ye not unto idols, nor make to yourselves molten gods: I am Jehovah your God.