Leviticus 18:26

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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:

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  • Lev 18:5 : 5 So keep my rules and my decisions, which, if a man does them, will be life to him: I am the Lord.
  • 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.
  • Deut 4:1-2 : 1 And now give ear, O Israel, to the laws and the decisions which I am teaching you, and do them; so that life may be yours, and you may go in and take for yourselves the land which the Lord, the God of your fathers, is giving you. 2 Make no addition to the orders which I give you, and take nothing from them, but keep the orders of the Lord your God which I give you.
  • Deut 4:40 : 40 Then keep his laws and his orders which I give you today, so that it may be well for you and for your children after you, and that your lives may be long in the land which the Lord your God is giving you for ever.
  • Deut 12:32 : 32 You are to keep with care all the words I give you, making no addition to them and taking nothing from them.
  • Ps 105:44-45 : 44 And gave them the lands of the nations; and they took the work of the peoples for a heritage; 45 So that they might keep his orders, and be true to his laws. Give praise to the Lord.
  • Luke 8:15 : 15 And those in the good earth are those who, having given ear to the word, keep it with a good and true heart, and in quiet strength give fruit.
  • Luke 11:28 : 28 But he said, More happy are they who give hearing to the word of God and keep it.
  • John 14:15 : 15 If you have love for me, you will keep my laws.
  • John 14:21-23 : 21 He who has my laws and keeps them, he it is who has love for me: and he who has love for me will be loved by my Father, and I will have love for him and will let myself be seen clearly by him. 22 Judas (not Iscariot) said to him, How is it that you will let yourself be seen clearly by us and not by the world? 23 Jesus said to him in answer, If anyone has love for me, he will keep my words: and he will be dear to my Father; and we will come to him and make our living-place with him.
  • John 15:14 : 14 You are my friends, if you do what I give you orders to do.
  • Lev 17:8 : 8 And say to them, If any man of Israel, or any other living among them, makes a burned offering or other offering,
  • Lev 17:10 : 10 And if any man of Israel, or any other living among them, takes any sort of blood for food, my wrath will be turned against that man and he will be cut off from among his people.

Similar Verses (AI)

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  • Lev 18:27-30
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    87%

    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 18:24-25
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    80%

    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:

    25And 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.

  • Lev 20:22-23
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    22So 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.

    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.

  • Deut 18:9
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    9When 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.

  • Num 15:14-16
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    14And if a man from another country or any other person living among you, through all your generations, has the desire to give an offering made by fire of a sweet smell to the Lord, let him do as you do.

    15There is to be one law for you and for the man of another country living with you, one law for ever from generation to generation; as you are, so is he to be before the Lord.

    16The law and the rule are to be the same for you and for those from other lands living with you.

  • Lev 18:3-5
    3 verses
    76%

    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.

    4But you are to be guided by my decisions and keep my rules, and be guided by them: I am the Lord your God.

    5So keep my rules and my decisions, which, if a man does them, will be life to him: I am the Lord.

  • Lev 24:22
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    22You are to have the same law for a man of another nation living among you as for an Israelite; for I am the Lord your God.

  • Num 9:14
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    14And if a man from another country is among you and has a desire to keep the Passover to the Lord, let him do as is ordered in the law of the Passover: there is to be the same rule for the man from another nation and for him who had his birth in the land.

  • Lev 19:33-34
    2 verses
    76%

    33And if a man from another country is living in your land with you, do not make life hard for him;

    34Let him be to you as one of your countrymen and have love for him as for yourself; for you were living in a strange land, in the land of Egypt: I am the Lord your God.

  • Exod 12:48-49
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    75%

    48And if a man from another country is living with you, and has a desire to keep the Passover to the Lord, let all the males of his family undergo circumcision, and then let him come near and keep it; for he will then be as one of your people; but no one without circumcision may keep it.

    49The law is the same for him who is an Israelite by birth and for the man from a strange country who is living with you.

  • Lev 19:19
    75%

    19Keep my laws. Do not let your cattle have offspring by those of a different sort; do not put mixed seed into your field; do not put on a robe made of two sorts of cloth.

  • Deut 18:12
    75%

    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.

  • Lev 18:22
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    22You may not have sex relations with men, as you do with women: it is a disgusting thing.

  • Lev 17:8
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    8And say to them, If any man of Israel, or any other living among them, makes a burned offering or other offering,

  • Deut 7:26
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    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.

  • Lev 25:18
    74%

    18So keep my rules and my decisions and do them, and you will be safe in your land.

  • Deut 14:3
    74%

    3No disgusting thing may be your food.

  • Ezek 44:7
    73%

    7To have let men from strange lands, without circumcision of heart or flesh, come into my holy place, making my house unclean; and to have made the offering of my food, even the fat and the blood; and in addition to all your disgusting ways, you have let my agreement be broken.

  • Lev 11:43
    73%

    43You are not to make yourselves disgusting with anything which goes about flat on the earth; you may not make yourselves unclean with them, in such a way that you are not holy to me.

  • Deut 25:16
    73%

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

  • Lev 19:37
    73%

    37You are to keep all my rules and my decisions and do them: I am the Lord.

  • Lev 20:25
    73%

    25So then, make division between the clean beast and the unclean, and between the clean bird and the unclean: do not make yourselves disgusting by any beast or bird or anything which goes flat on the earth, which has been marked by me as unclean for you.

  • Deut 20:18
    73%

    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.

  • Num 18:4
    73%

    4They are to be joined with you in the care of the Tent of meeting, doing whatever is needed for the Tent: and no one of any other family may come near you.

  • Num 35:34
    73%

    34Do not make unclean the land where you are living and in which is my House: for I the Lord am present among the children of Israel.

  • Num 15:29
    72%

    29The law in connection with wrong done unconsciously is to be the same for him who is an Israelite by birth and for the man from another country who is living among them.

  • Lev 20:8
    72%

    8And keep my rules and do them: I am the Lord, who make you holy.

  • Lev 18:19-20
    2 verses
    72%

    19And you may not go near a woman or have sex relations with her when she is unclean, at her regular time.

    20And you may not have sex relations with your neighbour's wife, making yourself unclean with her.

  • Lev 17:12
    72%

    12For this reason I have said to the children of Israel, No man among you, or any others living with you, may take blood as food.

  • Exod 22:21
    72%

    21Do no wrong to a man from a strange country, and do not be hard on him; for you yourselves were living in a strange country, in the land of Egypt.

  • Ezek 44:9
    72%

    9For this cause the Lord has said, No man from a strange land, without circumcision of heart and flesh, of all those who are living among the children of Israel, is to come into my holy place.

  • Lev 22:25
    72%

    25And from one who is not an Israelite you may not take any of these for an offering to the Lord; for they are unclean, there is a mark on them, and the Lord will not be pleased with them.

  • Lev 26:15
    72%

    15And if you go against my rules and if you have hate in your souls for my decisions and you do not do all my orders, but go against my agreement;

  • Lev 15:31
    72%

    31In this way may the children of Israel be made free from all sorts of unclean conditions, so that death may not overtake them when they are unclean and when they make unclean my holy place which is among them.

  • Lev 17:15
    72%

    15And anyone who takes as food anything which has come to a natural end, or anything which has been put to death by beasts, if he is one of you by birth, or of another nation, will have to have his clothing washed and his body bathed in water and be unclean till evening, and then he will be clean.

  • Lev 22:10
    72%

    10No outside person may take of the holy food, or one living as a guest in the priest's house, or a servant working for payment.

  • Lev 19:30
    72%

    30Keep my Sabbaths and have respect for my holy place: I am the Lord.

  • Deut 10:19
    72%

    19So be kind to the man from a strange country who is living among you, for you yourselves were living in a strange country in the land of Egypt.