Deuteronomy 18:9

Bible in Basic English (1941)

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.

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Referenced Verses

  • Deut 12:29-31 : 29 When the people of the land where you are going have been cut off before you by the Lord your God, and you have taken their land and are living in it; 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.
  • Lev 18:26-27 : 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;)
  • Lev 18:30 : 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.

Similar Verses (AI)

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  • Deut 20:18
    82%

    18So 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 18:10-14
    5 verses
    82%

    10Let 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,

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

    12For 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.

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

    14For 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.

  • Lev 18:24
    79%

    24Do 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 12:29-31
    3 verses
    79%

    29When the people of the land where you are going have been cut off before you by the Lord your God, and you have taken their land and are living in it;

    30After 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.

    31Do 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.

  • Lev 18:26-30
    5 verses
    79%

    26So 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;)

    28So 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.

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

    30So 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.

  • Lev 18:3
    78%

    3You may not do those things which were done in the land of Egypt where you were living; and you may not do those things which are done in the land of Canaan where I am taking you, or be guided in your behaviour by their rules.

  • Lev 20:23
    78%

    23And 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.

  • Exod 34:15-17
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    77%

    15So 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,

    16Or take their daughters for your sons; for when their daughters give worship before their gods, they will make your sons take part with them.

    17Make for yourselves no gods of metal.

  • Deut 7:25-26
    2 verses
    77%

    25The 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:

    26And 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.

  • Deut 14:3
    77%

    3No disgusting thing may be your food.

  • Deut 12:4
    76%

    4Do not so to the Lord your God.

  • Deut 13:11
    76%

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

  • Josh 23:7
    76%

    7Have nothing to do with these nations who still are living among you; let not their gods be named by you or used in your oaths; do not be their servants or give them worship:

  • Lev 18:21-22
    2 verses
    75%

    21And 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.

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

  • Deut 25:16
    75%

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

  • Deut 13:14
    74%

    14Then 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;

  • Deut 17:4
    74%

    4If 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;

  • Deut 12:25
    74%

    25Do not take it for food; so that it may be well for you and for your children after you, while you do what is right in the eyes of the Lord.

  • Deut 17:1-2
    2 verses
    74%

    1No 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.

    2If 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,

  • Exod 22:18
    74%

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

  • Lev 19:31
    74%

    31Do 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.

  • Lev 19:29
    74%

    29Do not make your daughter common by letting her become a loose woman, for fear that the land may become full of shame.

  • Deut 6:14
    74%

    14Do not go after other gods, the gods of the peoples round about you;

  • Exod 34:12
    74%

    12But take care, and do not make any agreement with the people of the land where you are going, for it will be a cause of sin to you.

  • Deut 4:25
    74%

    25If, when you have had children and children's children, and have been living a long time in the land, you are turned to evil ways, and make an image of any sort, and do evil in the eyes of the Lord your God, moving him to wrath:

  • Jer 10:2
    74%

    2This is what the Lord has said: Do not go in the way of the nations; have no fear of the signs of heaven, for the nations go in fear of them.

  • Exod 23:32
    73%

    32Make no agreement with them or with their gods.

  • Ps 81:9
    73%

    9There is to be no strange god among you; you are not to give worship to any other god.

  • Deut 19:1
    73%

    1When the nations, whose land the Lord your God is giving you, have been cut off by him, and you have taken their place and are living in their towns and in their houses;

  • Deut 7:3
    73%

    3Do not take wives or husbands from among them; do not give your daughters to their sons, or take their daughters for your sons.

  • Deut 29:17
    73%

    17And you have seen their disgusting doings, and the images of wood and stone and silver and gold which were among them:)

  • Josh 23:12
    73%

    12For if you go back, joining yourselves to the rest of these nations who are still among you, getting married to them and living with them and they with you:

  • Deut 13:7
    73%

    7Gods of the peoples round about you, near or far, from one end of the earth to the other;

  • Deut 23:9
    73%

    9When you go out to war and put your tents in position, keep from every evil thing.

  • Lev 19:4
    72%

    4Do not go after false gods, and do not make metal images of gods for yourselves: I am the Lord your God.