Leviticus 18:30

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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.

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Referenced Verses

  • Lev 20:23 : 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.
  • Lev 22:9 : 9 So then, let them keep what I have put into their care, for fear that sin may come on them because of it, so causing their death because they have made it common: I am the Lord, who make them holy.
  • Deut 11:1 : 1 So have love for the Lord your God, and give him worship, and keep his laws and his decisions and his orders at all times.
  • Deut 18:9-9 : 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. 12 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.
  • Lev 18:2-4 : 2 Say to the children of Israel, I am the Lord your God. 3 You 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. 4 But you are to be guided by my decisions and keep my rules, and be guided by them: I am the Lord your God.
  • 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;)

Similar Verses (AI)

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  • Lev 18:26-29
    4 verses
    84%

    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.

  • Lev 19:30-31
    2 verses
    84%

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

    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.

  • Lev 18:2-6
    5 verses
    83%

    2 Say to the children of Israel, I am the Lord your God.

    3 You 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.

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

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

    6 You may not have sex connection with anyone who is a near relation: I am the Lord.

  • Lev 22:31-32
    2 verses
    82%

    31 So then, keep my orders and do them: I am the Lord.

    32 And do not make my holy name common; so that it may be kept holy by the children of Israel: I am the Lord who make you holy,

  • Lev 18:24
    81%

    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:

  • Lev 20:7-8
    2 verses
    81%

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

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

  • Lev 19:37
    80%

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

  • Lev 26:2-3
    2 verses
    79%

    2 Keep my Sabbaths and give honour to my holy place: I am the Lord.

    3 If you are guided by my rules, and keep my laws and do them,

  • Lev 22:9
    79%

    9 So then, let them keep what I have put into their care, for fear that sin may come on them because of it, so causing their death because they have made it common: I am the Lord, who make them holy.

  • Lev 20:22-23
    2 verses
    79%

    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.

  • Ezek 20:7
    78%

    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.

  • Ezek 20:18-19
    2 verses
    78%

    18 And I said to their children in the waste land, Do not be guided by the rules of your fathers or keep their orders or make yourselves unclean with their images:

    19 I am the Lord your God; be guided by my rules and keep my orders and do them:

  • Deut 14:3
    77%

    3 No disgusting thing may be your food.

  • Deut 20:18
    77%

    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.

  • Ezek 20:30
    77%

    30 For this cause say to the children of Israel, This is what the Lord has said: Are you making yourselves unclean as your fathers did? are you being untrue to me by going after their disgusting works?

  • Deut 18:9
    77%

    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.

  • Lev 11:43-44
    2 verses
    77%

    43 You 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.

    44 For I am the Lord your God: for this reason, make and keep yourselves holy, for I am holy; you are not to make yourselves unclean with any sort of thing which goes about flat on the earth.

  • Deut 18:12
    77%

    12 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.

  • Lev 18:20-22
    3 verses
    77%

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

    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.

  • Lev 15:31
    76%

    31 In 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 22:2-3
    2 verses
    76%

    2 Give orders to Aaron and to his sons to keep themselves separate from the holy things of the children of Israel which they give to me, and not to make my holy name common: I am the Lord,

    3 Say to them, If any man of all your seed through all your generations, being unclean, comes near the holy things which the children of Israel make holy to the Lord, he will be cut off from before me: I am the Lord.

  • Lev 19:2-4
    3 verses
    76%

    2 Say to all the people of Israel, You are to be holy, for I, the Lord your God, am holy.

    3 Let every man give honour to his mother and to his father and keep my Sabbaths: I am the Lord your God.

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

  • Deut 25:16
    76%

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

  • Lev 20:25-26
    2 verses
    76%

    25 So 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.

    26 And you are to be holy to me; for I the Lord am holy and have made you separate from the nations, so that you may be my people.

  • Num 35:34
    75%

    34 Do 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 15:40
    75%

    40 And that you may keep in mind all my orders and do them and be holy to your God.

  • Lev 19:28
    75%

    28 You may not make cuts in your flesh in respect for the dead, or have marks printed on your bodies: I am the Lord.

  • Lev 25:18
    74%

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

  • Deut 7:26
    74%

    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.

  • Exod 34:15
    74%

    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,