Deuteronomy 18:9

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When you enter the land that the LORD your God is giving you, do not learn to imitate the detestable practices of those nations.

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  • Deut 12:29-31 : 29 When the Lord your God cuts off the nations before you, the nations you are entering to dispossess, and you drive them out and live in their land, 30 be careful that you are not ensnared by following them after they have been destroyed before you. Do not inquire about their gods, asking, 'How did these nations serve their gods? I will do likewise.' 31 You must not worship the Lord your God in their way, because they practice for their gods every abomination that the Lord hates. They even burn their sons and daughters in the fire as sacrifices to their gods.
  • Lev 18:26-27 : 26 But you are to keep my statutes and my judgments. Do not commit any of these abominations, whether you are a native-born or a foreigner residing among you. 27 For all these abominations were committed by the people who lived in the land before you, and the land was defiled.
  • Lev 18:30 : 30 So keep my charge not to practice any of the abominable customs that were done before you, so you do not defile yourselves by them. I am the LORD your God.

Similar Verses (AI)

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  • Deut 20:18
    82%

    18This is so they do not teach you to follow all the detestable practices they have done for their gods, causing you to sin against the LORD your God.

  • Deut 18:10-14
    5 verses
    82%

    10Let no one be found among you who sacrifices their son or daughter in the fire, practices divination, tells fortunes, interprets omens, or engages in witchcraft.

    11Or one who casts spells, consults a medium or spiritist, or who seeks the dead.

    12For anyone who does these things is detestable to the LORD. Because of these detestable practices, the LORD your God is driving out these nations before you.

    13You must be blameless before the LORD your God.

    14The nations you will dispossess listen to those who practice sorcery or divination. But as for you, the LORD your God has not allowed you to do so.

  • Lev 18:24
    79%

    24Do not defile yourselves by any of these practices, for the nations I am driving out before you have defiled themselves by all these things.

  • Deut 12:29-31
    3 verses
    79%

    29When the Lord your God cuts off the nations before you, the nations you are entering to dispossess, and you drive them out and live in their land,

    30be careful that you are not ensnared by following them after they have been destroyed before you. Do not inquire about their gods, asking, 'How did these nations serve their gods? I will do likewise.'

    31You must not worship the Lord your God in their way, because they practice for their gods every abomination that the Lord hates. They even burn their sons and daughters in the fire as sacrifices to their gods.

  • Lev 18:26-30
    5 verses
    79%

    26But you are to keep my statutes and my judgments. Do not commit any of these abominations, whether you are a native-born or a foreigner residing among you.

    27For all these abominations were committed by the people who lived in the land before you, and the land was defiled.

    28Make sure the land does not vomit you out when you defile it, as it vomited out the nation that was there before you.

    29For anyone who commits any of these detestable practices will be cut off from among their people.

    30So keep my charge not to practice any of the abominable customs that were done before you, so you do not defile yourselves by them. I am the LORD your God.

  • Lev 18:3
    78%

    3You must not behave like the people of Egypt, where you used to live, or like the people of Canaan, where I am bringing you. You must not follow their practices.

  • Lev 20:23
    78%

    23Do not follow the customs of the nations that I am driving out before you. Because they did all these things, I abhorred them.

  • Exod 34:15-17
    3 verses
    77%

    15Be careful not to make a covenant with the inhabitants of the land, for when they prostitute themselves to their gods and sacrifice to them, they will invite you, and you will eat from their sacrifices.

    16And when you take some of their daughters as wives for your sons, their daughters will lead your sons to prostitute themselves to their gods.

    17Do not make any molten gods for yourselves.

  • Deut 7:25-26
    2 verses
    77%

    25You must burn the carved images of their gods in the fire. Do not covet the silver or gold on them, and do not take it for yourself, or you will be ensnared by it. For it is detestable to the LORD your God.

    26Do not bring any detestable thing into your house, or you will be set apart for destruction just like it. Utterly detest and abhor it, for it is set apart for destruction.

  • Deut 14:3
    77%

    3You shall not eat any detestable thing.

  • Deut 12:4
    76%

    4Do not worship the Lord your God in the same way that they worship their gods.

  • Deut 13:11
    76%

    11Stone him to death because he sought to turn you away from the LORD your God, who brought you out of the land of Egypt, out of the house of slavery.

  • Josh 23:7
    76%

    7Do not associate with these nations that remain among you. Do not invoke the names of their gods, swear by them, serve them, or bow down to them.

  • Lev 18:21-22
    2 verses
    75%

    21Do not give any of your children to be sacrificed to Molech, for you must not profane the name of your God. I am the LORD.

    22Do not have sexual relations with a man as one does with a woman; that is detestable.

  • Deut 25:16
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    16For anyone who does these things, anyone who deals dishonestly, is detestable to the LORD your God.

  • Deut 13:14
    74%

    14that wicked men have come out from among you and led the inhabitants of their city astray, saying, 'Let us go and worship other gods'—gods you have not known—

  • Deut 17:4
    74%

    4and you are told about it and hear of it, then you must investigate it thoroughly. If it is true and confirmed that such a detestable act has been done in Israel,

  • Deut 12:25
    74%

    25Do not eat it, so that it may go well with you and your children after you, because you will be doing what is right in the eyes of the Lord.

  • Deut 17:1-2
    2 verses
    74%

    1Do not sacrifice to the LORD your God a bull or sheep with a defect or any flaw, for that would be detestable to the LORD your God.

    2If a man or woman in one of the towns the LORD your God is giving you is found to have committed an evil act in the sight of the LORD your God, violating His covenant,

  • Exod 22:18
    74%

    18Anyone who has sexual relations with an animal must surely be put to death.

  • Lev 19:31
    74%

    31Do not turn to mediums or spiritists. Do not seek them out to be defiled by them. I am the LORD your God.

  • Lev 19:29
    74%

    29Do not degrade your daughter by making her a prostitute, or the land will become filled with wickedness.

  • Deut 6:14
    74%

    14Do not follow other gods, the gods of the peoples around you.

  • Exod 34:12
    74%

    12Be careful not to make a covenant with the inhabitants of the land where you are going, or they will become a snare in your midst.

  • Deut 4:25
    74%

    25When you have children and grandchildren and have grown old in the land, and if you act corruptly and make a carved image in the form of anything, doing what is evil in the sight of the LORD your God to provoke Him to anger,

  • Jer 10:2
    74%

    2This is what the Lord says: Do not learn the ways of the nations or be terrified by the signs in the sky, even though the nations are terrified by them.

  • Exod 23:32
    73%

    32Do not make a covenant with them or with their gods.

  • Ps 81:9
    73%

    9Hear, my people, and I will warn you—if you would only listen to me, Israel!

  • Deut 19:1
    73%

    1When the LORD your God eliminates the nations whose land He is giving you, and you take possession of them and settle in their cities and houses,

  • Deut 7:3
    73%

    3Do not intermarry with them: do not give your daughters to their sons or take their daughters for your sons,

  • Deut 29:17
    73%

    17Make sure there is no man or woman, family, or tribe among you whose heart turns away today from the LORD our God to go and serve the gods of these nations. Make sure there is no root among you that produces poisonous and bitter fruit.

  • Josh 23:12
    73%

    12But if you turn away and ally yourselves with the survivors of these nations that remain among you, and if you intermarry with them and associate with them,

  • Deut 13:7
    73%

    7If your brother, the son of your mother, or your son or daughter, or the wife of your embrace, or your closest friend secretly entices you, saying, 'Let us go and worship other gods'—gods that neither you nor your ancestors have known,

  • Deut 23:9
    73%

    9The children born to them in the third generation may enter the assembly of the LORD.

  • Lev 19:4
    72%

    4Do not turn to idols or make gods of cast metal for yourselves. I am the LORD your God.