Leviticus 20:23

American Standard Version (1901)

And 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.

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Referenced Verses

  • Lev 18:3 : 3 After 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 18:24 : 24 Defile not ye yourselves in any of these things: for in all these the nations are defiled which I cast out from before you;
  • 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.
  • Deut 9:5 : 5 Not for thy righteousness, or for the uprightness of thy heart, dost thou go in to possess their land; but for the wickedness of these nations Jehovah thy God doth drive them out from before thee, and that he may establish the word which Jehovah sware unto thy fathers, to Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob.
  • Lev 18:27 : 27 (for all these abominations have the men of the land done, that were before you, and the land is defiled);
  • Deut 12:30-31 : 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.
  • Ps 78:59 : 59 When God heard [this], he was wroth, And greatly abhorred Israel;
  • Jer 10:1-2 : 1 Hear ye the word which Jehovah speaketh unto you, O house of Israel: 2 thus 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.
  • Zech 11:8 : 8 And I cut off the three shepherds in one month; for my soul was weary of them, and their soul also loathed me.

Similar Verses (AI)

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  • Lev 18:24-30
    7 verses
    83%

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

    25And the land is defiled: therefore I do visit the iniquity thereof upon it, and the land vomiteth out her inhabitants.

    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 20:22
    82%

    22Ye shall therefore keep all my statutes, and all mine ordinances, and do them; that the land, whither I bring you to dwell therein, vomit you not out.

  • Lev 18:3-4
    2 verses
    80%

    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.

    4Mine ordinances shall ye do, and my statutes shall ye keep, to walk therein: I am Jehovah your God.

  • Lev 20:24-26
    3 verses
    79%

    24But I have said unto you, Ye shall inherit their land, and I will give it unto you to possess it, a land flowing with milk and honey: I am Jehovah your God, who hath separated you from the peoples.

    25Ye shall therefore make a distinction between the clean beast and the unclean, and between the unclean fowl and the clean: and ye shall not make your souls abominable by beast, or by bird, or by anything wherewith the ground teemeth, which I have separated from you as unclean.

    26And ye shall be holy unto me: for I, Jehovah, am holy, and have set you apart from the peoples, that ye should be mine.

  • Ezek 20:7
    78%

    7And I said unto them, Cast ye away every man the abominations of his eyes, and defile not yourselves with the idols of Egypt; I am Jehovah your God.

  • Deut 20:17-18
    2 verses
    78%

    17but thou shalt utterly destroy them: the Hittite, and the Amorite, the Canaanite, and the Perizzite, the Hivite, and the Jebusite; as Jehovah thy God hath commanded thee;

    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.

  • Ezek 20:18-19
    2 verses
    78%

    18And I said unto their children in the wilderness, Walk ye not in the statutes of your fathers, neither observe their ordinances, nor defile yourselves with their idols.

    19I am Jehovah your God: walk in my statutes, and keep mine ordinances, and do them;

  • Deut 18:9
    78%

    9When thou art come into the land which Jehovah thy God giveth thee, thou shalt not learn to do after the abominations of those nations.

  • Deut 18:12
    77%

    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.

  • 2 Kgs 17:8
    77%

    8and walked in the statutes of the nations, whom Jehovah cast out from before the children of Israel, and of the kings of Israel, which they made.

  • Jer 2:7
    76%

    7And I brought you into a plentiful land, to eat the fruit thereof and the goodness thereof; but when ye entered, ye defiled my land, and made my heritage an abomination.

  • Deut 7:26
    76%

    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.

  • Judg 2:2
    75%

    2and ye shall make no covenant with the inhabitants of this land; ye shall break down their altars. But ye have not hearkened unto my voice: why have ye done this?

  • Num 35:34
    75%

    34And thou shalt not defile the land which ye inhabit, in the midst of which I dwell: for I, Jehovah, dwell in the midst of the children of Israel.

  • Deut 9:4
    75%

    4Speak not thou in thy heart, after that Jehovah thy God hath thrust them out from before thee, saying, For my righteousness Jehovah hath brought me in to possess this land; whereas for the wickedness of these nations Jehovah doth drive them out from before thee.

  • Num 33:52
    75%

    52then ye shall drive out all the inhabitants of the land from before you, and destroy all their figured [stones], and destroy all their molten images, and demolish all their high places:

  • Josh 23:5
    75%

    5And Jehovah your God, he will thrust them out from before you, and drive them from out of your sight; and ye shall possess their land, as Jehovah your God spake unto you.

  • Josh 23:7
    74%

    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;

  • Ezra 9:11
    74%

    11which thou hast commanded by thy servants the prophets, saying, The land, unto which ye go to possess it, is an unclean land through the uncleanness of the peoples of the lands, through their abominations, which have filled it from one end to another with their filthiness:

  • Lev 26:15
    74%

    15and if ye shall reject my statutes, and if your soul abhor mine ordinances, so that ye will not do all my commandments, but break my covenant;

  • Exod 23:32
    74%

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

  • Deut 8:20
    74%

    20As the nations that Jehovah maketh to perish before you, so shall ye perish; because ye would not hearken unto the voice of Jehovah your God.

  • Ezek 11:12
    74%

    12and ye shall know that I am Jehovah: for ye have not walked in my statutes, neither have ye executed mine ordinances, but have done after the ordinances of the nations that are round about you.

  • Josh 7:12
    74%

    12Therefore the children of Israel cannot stand before their enemies; they turn their backs before their enemies, because they are become accursed: I will not be with you any more, except ye destroy the devoted thing from among you.

  • Exod 23:24
    74%

    24Thou shalt not bow down to their gods, nor serve them, nor do after their works; but thou shalt utterly overthrow them, and break in pieces their pillars.

  • Ezek 20:38
    74%

    38and I will purge out from among you the rebels, and them that transgress against me; I will bring them forth out of the land where they sojourn, but they shall not enter into the land of Israel: and ye shall know that I am Jehovah.

  • Ezek 20:15-16
    2 verses
    74%

    15Moreover also I sware unto them in the wilderness, that I would not bring them into the land which I had given them, flowing with milk and honey, which is the glory of all lands;

    16because they rejected mine ordinances, and walked not in my statutes, and profaned my sabbaths: for their heart went after their idols.

  • Ezek 20:24
    74%

    24because they had not executed mine ordinances, but had rejected my statutes, and had profaned my sabbaths, and their eyes were after their fathers' idols.

  • Deut 11:23
    74%

    23then will Jehovah drive out all these nations from before you, and ye shall dispossess nations greater and mightier than yourselves.

  • Jer 44:22
    74%

    22so that Jehovah could not longer bear, because of the evil of your doings, and because of the abominations which ye have committed; therefore is your land become a desolation, and an astonishment, and a curse, without inhabitant, as it is this day.

  • Lev 20:7
    73%

    7Sanctify yourselves therefore, and be ye holy; for I am Jehovah your God.

  • Deut 20:15
    73%

    15Thus shalt thou do unto all the cities which are very far off from thee, which are not of the cities of these nations.

  • Ezek 20:13
    73%

    13But the house of Israel rebelled against me in the wilderness: they walked not in my statutes, and they rejected mine ordinances, which if a man keep, he shall live in them; and my sabbaths they greatly profaned. Then I said I would pour out my wrath upon them in the wilderness, to consume them.

  • 2 Chr 7:20
    73%

    20then will I pluck them up by the roots out of my land which I have given them; and this house, which I have hallowed for my name, will I cast out of my sight, and I will make it a proverb and a byword among all peoples.

  • Deut 14:3
    73%

    3Thou shalt not eat any abominable thing.

  • Ezek 5:7
    73%

    7Therefore thus saith the Lord Jehovah: Because ye are turbulent more than the nations that are round about you, and have not walked in my statutes, neither have kept mine ordinances, neither have done after the ordinances of the nations that are round about you;

  • Ezek 22:15
    73%

    15And I will scatter thee among the nations, and disperse thee through the countries; and I will consume thy filthiness out of thee.

  • Deut 25:16
    73%

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