Leviticus 20:23

Bible in Basic English (1941)

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.

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Referenced Verses

  • Lev 18:3 : 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.
  • 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:
  • 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 9:5 : 5 Not for your righteousness or because your hearts are upright are you going in to take their land; but because of the evil-doing of these nations the Lord your God is driving them out from before you, and to give effect to his oath to your fathers, Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob.
  • 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;)
  • Deut 12:30-31 : 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.
  • Ps 78:59 : 59 When this came to God's ears he was very angry, and gave up Israel completely;
  • Jer 10:1-2 : 1 Give ear to the word which the Lord says to you, O people of Israel: 2 This 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.
  • Zech 11:8 : 8 And in one month I put an end to the three keepers of the flock; for my soul was tired of them, and their souls were disgusted with me.

Similar Verses (AI)

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  • Lev 18:24-30
    7 verses
    83%

    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.

    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 20:22
    82%

    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.

  • Lev 18:3-4
    2 verses
    80%

    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.

  • Lev 20:24-26
    3 verses
    79%

    24But I have said to you, You will take their land and I will give it to you for your heritage, a land flowing with milk and honey: I am the Lord your God who have made you separate from all other peoples.

    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.

    26And 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.

  • Ezek 20:7
    78%

    7And 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.

  • Deut 20:17-18
    2 verses
    78%

    17Give 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:

    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.

  • Ezek 20:18-19
    2 verses
    78%

    18And 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:

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

  • Deut 18:9
    78%

    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.

  • Deut 18:12
    77%

    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.

  • 2 Kgs 17:8
    77%

    8Living by the rules of the nations whom the Lord had sent out from before the children of Israel.

  • Jer 2:7
    76%

    7And I took you into a fertile land, where you were living on its fruit and its wealth; but when you came in, you made my land unclean, and made my heritage a disgusting thing.

  • Deut 7:26
    76%

    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.

  • Judg 2:2
    75%

    2And you are to make no agreement with the people of this land; you are to see that their altars are broken down: but you have not given ear to my voice: what have you done?

  • Num 35:34
    75%

    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.

  • Deut 9:4
    75%

    4And 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.

  • Num 33:52
    75%

    52See 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:

  • Josh 23:5
    75%

    5The Lord your God will send them away by force, driving them out before you; and you are to take their land for your heritage, as the Lord your God said to you.

  • Josh 23:7
    74%

    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:

  • Ezra 9:11
    74%

    11Which you gave to your servants the prophets, saying, The land into which you are going, to take it for a heritage, is an unclean land, because of the evil lives of the peoples of the land and their disgusting ways, which have made the land unclean from end to end.

  • Lev 26:15
    74%

    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;

  • Exod 23:32
    74%

    32Make no agreement with them or with their gods.

  • Deut 8:20
    74%

    20Like the nations which the Lord is cutting off before you, so you will be cut off; because you would not give ear to the voice of the Lord your God.

  • Ezek 11:12
    74%

    12And you will be certain that I am the Lord: for you have not been guided by my rules or given effect to my orders, but you have been living by the orders of the nations round about you.

  • Josh 7:12
    74%

    12For this reason the children of Israel have given way, turning their backs in flight before their attackers, because they are cursed: I will no longer be with you, if you do not put the cursed thing away from among you.

  • Exod 23:24
    74%

    24Do not go down on your faces and give worship to their gods, or do as they do; but overcome them completely, and let their pillars be broken down.

  • Ezek 20:38
    74%

    38Clearing out from among you all those who are uncontrolled and who are sinning against me; I will take them out of the land where they are living, but they will not come into the land of Israel: and you will be certain that I am the Lord.

  • Ezek 20:15-16
    2 verses
    74%

    15And further, I gave my oath to them in the waste land, that I would not take them into the land which I had given them, a land flowing with milk and honey, the glory of all lands;

    16Because they were turned away from my orders, and were not guided by my rules, and had no respect for my Sabbaths: for their hearts went after their images.

  • Ezek 20:24
    74%

    24Because they had not done my orders, but had been turned away from my rules, and had not given respect to my Sabbaths, and their eyes were turned to the images of their fathers.

  • Deut 11:23
    74%

    23Then the Lord will send these nations in flight before you, and you will take the lands of nations greater and stronger than yourselves.

  • Jer 44:22
    74%

    22And the Lord was no longer able to put up with the evil of your doings and the disgusting things you did; and because of this your land has become a waste and a cause of wonder and a curse, with no one living in it, as at this day.

  • Lev 20:7
    73%

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

  • Deut 20:15
    73%

    15So you are to do to all the towns far away, which are not the towns of these nations.

  • Ezek 20:13
    73%

    13But the children of Israel would not be controlled by me in the waste land: they were not guided by my rules, and they were turned away from my orders, which, if a man does them, will be life to him; and they had no respect for my Sabbaths: then I said that I would let loose my passion on them in the waste land, and put an end to them.

  • 2 Chr 7:20
    73%

    20Then I will have this people uprooted out of my land which I have given them; and this house, which I have made holy for my name, I will put away from before my eyes, and make it an example and a word of shame among all peoples.

  • Deut 14:3
    73%

    3No disgusting thing may be your food.

  • Ezek 5:7
    73%

    7For this cause the Lord has said: Because you have been more uncontrolled than the nations round about you, and have not been guided by my rules or kept my orders, but have kept the orders of the nations round about you;

  • Ezek 22:15
    73%

    15And I will send you in flight among the nations and wandering among the countries; and I will completely take away out of you everything which is unclean.

  • Deut 25:16
    73%

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