Deuteronomy 18:12

Bible in Basic English (1941)

For all who do such things are disgusting to the Lord; and because of these disgusting things the Lord your God is driving them out before you.

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Referenced Verses

  • Lev 18:24 : 24 Do not make yourself unclean in any of these ways; for so have those nations whom I am driving out from before you made themselves unclean:
  • Deut 9:4 : 4 And after the Lord has sent them in flight from before you, say not in your heart, Because of my righteousness the Lord has given me this land; when it is because of their evil-doing that the Lord is driving these nations out before you.
  • Lev 18:27 : 27 (For all these disgusting things were done by the men of this country who were there before you, and the land has been made unclean by them;)

Similar Verses (AI)

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  • Deut 25:16
    84%

    16 For all who do such things, and all whose ways are not upright, are disgusting to the Lord your God.

  • Deut 18:9-11
    3 verses
    82%

    9 When you have come into the land which the Lord your God is giving you, do not take as your example the disgusting ways of those nations.

    10 Let there not be seen among you anyone who makes his son or his daughter go through the fire, or anyone using secret arts, or a maker of strange sounds, or a reader of signs, or any wonder-worker,

    11 Or anyone using secret force on people, or putting questions to a spirit, or having secret knowledge, or going to the dead for directions.

  • Lev 18:24-30
    7 verses
    82%

    24 Do not make yourself unclean in any of these ways; for so have those nations whom I am driving out from before you made themselves unclean:

    25 And the land itself has become unclean; so that I have sent on it the reward of its wrongdoing, and the land itself puts out those who are living in it.

    26 So then keep my rules and my decisions, and do not do any of these disgusting things, those of you who are Israelites by birth, or any others who are living with you:

    27 (For all these disgusting things were done by the men of this country who were there before you, and the land has been made unclean by them;)

    28 So that the land may not put you out from it, when you make it unclean, as it put out the nations which were there before you.

    29 For all those who do any of these disgusting things will be cut off from among their people.

    30 So then, keep my orders, so that you may not do any of these disgusting things which were done before you, or make yourselves unclean through them: I am the Lord your God.

  • Deut 12:30-31
    2 verses
    79%

    30 After their destruction take care that you do not go in their ways, and that you do not give thought to their gods, saying, How did these nations give worship to their gods? I will do as they did.

    31 Do not so to the Lord your God: for everything which is disgusting to the Lord and hated by him they have done in honour of their gods: even burning their sons and daughters in the fire to their gods.

  • Deut 7:25-26
    2 verses
    78%

    25 The images of their gods are to be burned with fire: have no desire for the gold and silver on them, and do not take it for yourselves, for it will be a danger to you: it is a thing disgusting to the Lord your God:

    26 And you may not take a disgusting thing into your house, and so become cursed with its curse: but keep yourselves from it, turning from it with fear and hate, for it is a cursed thing.

  • Lev 20:22-23
    2 verses
    77%

    22 So then, keep my rules and my decisions and do them, so that the land which I am giving you as your resting-place may not violently send you out again.

    23 And do not keep the rules of the nations which I am driving out before you; for they did all these things, and for that reason my soul was turned against them.

  • Deut 20:17-18
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    77%

    17 Give them up to the curse; the Hittite, the Amorite, the Canaanite, the Perizzite, the Hivite, and the Jebusite, as the Lord your God has given you orders:

    18 So that you may not take them as your example and do all the disgusting things which they do in the worship of their gods, so sinning against the Lord your God.

  • Deut 18:13-14
    2 verses
    77%

    13 You are to be upright in heart before the Lord your God.

    14 For these nations, whose land you are taking, give attention to readers of signs and to those using secret arts: but the Lord your God will not let you do so.

  • Deut 14:3
    77%

    3 No disgusting thing may be your food.

  • Deut 17:4
    75%

    4 If word of this comes to your ears, then let this thing be looked into with care, and if there is no doubt that it is true, and such evil has been done in Israel;

  • Lev 18:21-22
    2 verses
    74%

    21 And you may not make any of your children go through the fire as an offering to Molech, and you may not put shame on the name of your God: I am the Lord.

    22 You may not have sex relations with men, as you do with women: it is a disgusting thing.

  • Deut 17:1-2
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    74%

    1 No ox or sheep which has a mark on it or is damaged in any way may be offered to the Lord your God: for that is disgusting to the Lord your God.

    2 If there is any man or woman among you, in any of the towns which the Lord your God gives you, who does evil in the eyes of the Lord your God, sinning against his agreement,

  • Deut 13:11
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    11 And all Israel, hearing of it, will be full of fear, and no one will again do such evil as this among you.

  • Lev 19:31
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    31 Do not go after those who make use of spirits, or wonder-workers; do not go in their ways or become unclean through them: I am the Lord your God.

  • 2 Kgs 17:12
    73%

    12 And they made themselves servants of disgusting things, though the Lord had said, You are not to do this.

  • Deut 13:14
    73%

    14 Then let a full search be made, and let questions be put with care; and if it is true and certain that such a disgusting thing has been done among you;

  • Lev 20:6-7
    2 verses
    73%

    6 And whoever goes after those who make use of spirits and wonder-workers, doing evil with them, against him will my face be turned, and he will be cut off from among his people.

    7 So make and keep yourselves holy, for I am the Lord your God.

  • Exod 22:18
    73%

    18 Any woman using unnatural powers or secret arts is to be put to death.

  • Num 33:52
    73%

    52 See that all the people of the land are forced out from before you, and put to destruction all their pictured stones, and all their metal images, and all their high places:

  • Deut 22:5
    73%

    5 It is not right for a woman to be dressed in man's clothing, or for a man to put on a woman's robe: whoever does such things is disgusting to the Lord your God.

  • Deut 12:4
    73%

    4 Do not so to the Lord your God.

  • Prov 6:16
    72%

    16 Six things are hated by the Lord; seven things are disgusting to him:

  • Deut 9:4
    72%

    4 And after the Lord has sent them in flight from before you, say not in your heart, Because of my righteousness the Lord has given me this land; when it is because of their evil-doing that the Lord is driving these nations out before you.

  • Deut 6:19
    72%

    19 To send out from before you all those who are against you.

  • Lev 20:27
    72%

    27 Any man or woman who makes use of spirits, or who is a wonder-worker, is to be put to death: they are to be stoned with stones: their blood will be on them.

  • Exod 34:15
    72%

    15 So see that you make no agreement with the people of the land, and do not go after their gods, or take part in their offerings, or be guests at their feasts,

  • Ezek 11:18
    71%

    18 And they will come there, and take away all the hated and disgusting things from it.

  • 2 Kgs 17:17
    71%

    17 And they made their sons and their daughters go through the fire, and they made use of secret arts and unnatural powers, and gave themselves up to doing evil in the eyes of the Lord, till he was moved to wrath.

  • Ezek 20:7
    71%

    7 And I said to them, Let every man among you put away the disgusting things to which his eyes are turned, and do not make yourselves unclean with the images of Egypt; I am the Lord your God.

  • Lev 17:8
    71%

    8 And say to them, If any man of Israel, or any other living among them, makes a burned offering or other offering,

  • Lev 11:42
    71%

    42 Whatever goes on its stomach or on four feet or has a great number of feet, even all those going flat on the earth, may not be used for food, for they are disgusting.

  • Lev 11:11
    71%

    11 They may not be used for food, and their dead bodies are disgusting to you.

  • Prov 11:20
    71%

    20 The uncontrolled are hated by the Lord, but those whose ways are without error are his delight

  • Mic 5:12
    71%

    12 And I will have your images and your pillars cut off from you; and you will no longer give worship to the work of your hands.