Leviticus 20:23

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

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  • Lev 18:3 : 3 You 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 18:24 : 24 Do not defile yourselves by any of these practices, for the nations I am driving out before you have defiled themselves by all these things.
  • 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.
  • Deut 9:5 : 5 It is not because of your righteousness or the uprightness of your heart that you are entering to take possession of their land, but it is because of the wickedness of these nations that the LORD your God is driving them out before you, and to fulfill the promise the LORD swore to your ancestors—to Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob.
  • Lev 18:27 : 27 For all these abominations were committed by the people who lived in the land before you, and the land was defiled.
  • Deut 12:30-31 : 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.
  • Ps 78:59 : 59 When God heard this, He became furious and greatly rejected Israel.
  • Jer 10:1-2 : 1 Hear the word that the Lord has spoken to you, O house of Israel. 2 This 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.
  • Zech 11:8 : 8 In one month I disposed of the three shepherds. My soul was impatient with them, and their soul also loathed me.

Similar Verses (AI)

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  • Lev 18:24-30
    7 verses
    83%

    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.

    25Even the land was defiled; so I punished it for its sin, and the land vomited out its inhabitants.

    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 20:22
    82%

    22You shall faithfully keep all my statutes and all my judgments and obey them, so that the land to which I am bringing you to live will not vomit you out.

  • Lev 18:3-4
    2 verses
    80%

    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.

    4You must obey my laws and carefully keep my decrees. Live by them. I am the LORD your God.

  • Lev 20:24-26
    3 verses
    79%

    24But I said to you, 'You will inherit their land, and I will give it to you to possess, a land flowing with milk and honey.' I am the LORD your God, who has set you apart from the peoples.

    25You must distinguish between the clean animal and the unclean, and between the unclean bird and the clean. Do not make yourselves detestable by any animal, bird, or anything that moves on the ground that I have set apart as unclean for you.

    26You shall be holy to me, for I, the LORD, am holy, and I have set you apart from the peoples to be mine.

  • Ezek 20:7
    78%

    7And I said to them, 'Each of you, get rid of the detestable things your eyes are set on, and do not defile yourselves with the idols of Egypt. I am the LORD your God.'

  • Deut 20:17-18
    2 verses
    78%

    17Completely destroy them—the Hittites, Amorites, Canaanites, Perizzites, Hivites, and Jebusites—as the LORD your God has commanded you.

    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.

  • Ezek 20:18-19
    2 verses
    78%

    18I said to their children in the wilderness, 'Do not follow the statutes of your fathers, do not observe their ordinances, and do not defile yourselves with their idols.

    19'I am the LORD your God; walk in my statutes, keep my ordinances, and obey them.

  • Deut 18:9
    78%

    9When you enter the land that the LORD your God is giving you, do not learn to imitate the detestable practices of those nations.

  • Deut 18:12
    77%

    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.

  • 2 Kgs 17:8
    77%

    8They followed the practices of the nations whom the Lord had driven out before the Israelites, as well as the practices of the kings of Israel that they themselves had introduced.

  • Jer 2:7
    76%

    7I brought you into a fertile land to eat its fruit and its bounty. But you came and defiled my land. You made my inheritance detestable.

  • Deut 7:26
    76%

    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.

  • Judg 2:2
    75%

    2But you must not make a covenant with the people who live in this land. Instead, you are to break down their altars. Yet you have not obeyed me. What is this that you have done?'

  • Num 35:34
    75%

    34Do not defile the land where you live and where I dwell, for I, the LORD, dwell among the Israelites.

  • Deut 9:4
    75%

    4Do not say in your heart, when the LORD your God drives them out before you, 'It is because of my righteousness that the LORD has brought me in to take possession of this land,' but it is because of the wickedness of these nations that the LORD is dispossessing them before you.

  • Num 33:52
    75%

    52you must drive out all the inhabitants of the land before you, destroy all their stone images and cast idols, and demolish all their high places.

  • Josh 23:5
    75%

    5The LORD your God will drive them out from before you and dispossess them from your sight, so you will take possession of their land, just as the LORD your God promised you.

  • Josh 23:7
    74%

    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.

  • Ezra 9:11
    74%

    11'that you commanded through your servants the prophets, saying: "The land you are entering to possess is a land defiled by the practices of its peoples and their detestable acts that have filled it with impurity from one end to the other."'

  • Lev 26:15
    74%

    15and if you reject my statutes and if your soul loathes my judgments so that you do not carry out all my commandments and thus break my covenant,

  • Exod 23:32
    74%

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

  • Deut 8:20
    74%

    20Like the nations that the Lord is destroying before you, so you will perish if you do not obey the voice of the Lord your God.

  • Ezek 11:12
    74%

    12Then you will know that I am the Lord, for you have not followed My statutes or kept My judgments, but instead you have conformed to the judgments of the nations around you.

  • Josh 7:12
    74%

    12That is why the Israelites cannot stand against their enemies; they turn their backs and run because they have been made liable to destruction. I will not be with you anymore unless you destroy whatever among you is devoted to destruction.

  • Exod 23:24
    74%

    24Do not bow down to their gods or worship them or follow their practices. Instead, you must demolish them completely and shatter their sacred pillars.

  • Ezek 20:38
    74%

    38I will purge you of those who rebel and transgress against me. Even though I bring them out from the land where they are living, they will not enter the land of Israel. Then you will know that I am the LORD.

  • Ezek 20:15-16
    2 verses
    74%

    15Also, I swore to them in the wilderness that I would not bring them into the land I had given them—a land flowing with milk and honey, the most beautiful of all lands—

    16because they rejected my ordinances, did not walk in my statutes, and profaned my Sabbaths, for their hearts followed after their idols.

  • Ezek 20:24
    74%

    24because they did not carry out my ordinances but rejected my statutes and profaned my Sabbaths, and their eyes were fixed on their fathers' idols.

  • Deut 11:23
    74%

    23then the LORD will drive out all these nations before you, and you will dispossess nations greater and stronger than you.

  • Jer 44:22
    74%

    22Because the LORD could no longer endure the wickedness of your actions and the detestable things you committed, your land became a ruin, a desolation, and a curse, without inhabitants, as it is today.

  • Lev 20:7
    73%

    7Consecrate yourselves therefore, and be holy, for I am the LORD your God.

  • Deut 20:15
    73%

    15This is what you shall do to all the cities that are very far from you, which are not part of the cities of these nations.

  • Ezek 20:13
    73%

    13But the house of Israel rebelled against me in the wilderness. They did not follow my statutes and rejected my ordinances—though by them a person will live if they do them—and they greatly profaned my Sabbaths. So I said I would pour out my wrath on them in the wilderness to destroy them.

  • 2 Chr 7:20
    73%

    20then I will uproot you from My land that I have given you, and I will reject this temple I have consecrated for My name. I will make it a byword and an object of ridicule among all peoples.

  • Deut 14:3
    73%

    3You shall not eat any detestable thing.

  • Ezek 5:7
    73%

    7Therefore, this is what the Lord GOD says: Because you are more rebellious than the surrounding nations—you have not walked in My statutes or done what My judgments demand, nor have you even lived according to the laws of the nations around you.

  • Ezek 22:15
    73%

    15I will scatter you among the nations and disperse you throughout the lands, and I will cleanse you from your impurity.

  • Deut 25:16
    73%

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