Leviticus 20:23

Geneva Bible (1560)

Wherefore ye shall not walke in the maners of this nation which I cast out before you: for they haue committed all these things, therefore I abhorred them.

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Referenced Verses

  • Lev 18:3 : 3 After ye doings of the land of Egypt, wherin ye dwelt, shall ye not doe: and after the maner of the land of Canaan, whither I will bring you, shal ye not do, neither walke in their ordinances,
  • Lev 18:24 : 24 Yee shall not defile your selues in any of these things: for in al these the nations are defiled, which I will cast out before you:
  • Lev 18:30 : 30 Therefore shall yee keepe mine ordinances that ye do not any of the abominable customes, which haue bene done before you, and that yee defile not your selues therein: for I am the Lorde your God.
  • Deut 9:5 : 5 For thou entrest not to inherite their lande for thy righteousnesse, or for thy vpright heart: but for the wickednesse of those nations, the Lord thy God doth cast them out before thee, and that he might performe the worde which the Lord thy God sware vnto thy fathers, Abraham, Izhak, and Iacob.
  • Lev 18:27 : 27 (For all these abominations haue the men of the land done, which were before you, and the land is defiled:
  • Deut 12:30-31 : 30 Beware, lest thou be taken in a snare after them, after that they be destroied before thee, and lest thou aske after their gods, saying, Howe did these nations serue their gods, that I may doe so likewise? 31 Thou shalt not doe so vnto the Lorde thy God: for al abomination, which the Lord hateth, haue they done vnto their gods: for they haue burned both their sonnes and their daughters with fire to their gods.
  • Ps 78:59 : 59 God heard this and was wroth, and greatly abhorred Israel,
  • Jer 10:1-2 : 1 Heare ye the worde of the Lord that he speaketh vnto you, O house of Israel. 2 Thus saith the Lorde, Learne not the way of the heathen, & be not afraid for the signes of heauen, though the heathen be afraid of such.
  • Zech 11:8 : 8 Three shepherdes also I cut off in one moneth, and my soule lothed them, and their soule abhorred me.

Similar Verses (AI)

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  • Lev 18:24-30
    7 verses
    83%

    24 Yee shall not defile your selues in any of these things: for in al these the nations are defiled, which I will cast out before you:

    25 And the land is defiled: therefore I wil visit the wickednesse thereof vpon it, and the lande shall vomit out her inhabitants.

    26 Ye shall keepe therefore mine ordinances, and my iudgementes, and commit none of these abominations, aswell hee that is of the same countrey, as the straunger that soiourneth among you.

    27 (For all these abominations haue the men of the land done, which were before you, and the land is defiled:

    28 And shall not the lande spue you out if ye defile it, as it spued out the people that were before you?)

    29 For whosoeuer shall commit any of these abominations, the persons that doe so, shall bee cut off from among their people.

    30 Therefore shall yee keepe mine ordinances that ye do not any of the abominable customes, which haue bene done before you, and that yee defile not your selues therein: for I am the Lorde your God.

  • Lev 20:22
    82%

    22 Ye shall keepe therefore all mine ordinances and all my iudgements, and doe them, that the land, whither I bring you to dwel therein, spue you not out.

  • Lev 18:3-4
    2 verses
    80%

    3 After ye doings of the land of Egypt, wherin ye dwelt, shall ye not doe: and after the maner of the land of Canaan, whither I will bring you, shal ye not do, neither walke in their ordinances,

    4 But do after my iudgementes, and keepe mine ordinances, to walke therein: I am the Lord your God.

  • Lev 20:24-26
    3 verses
    79%

    24 But I haue saide vnto you, ye shall inherite their land, & I will giue it vnto you to possesse it, euen a land that floweth with milke and honie: I am the Lorde your God, which haue separated you from other people.

    25 Therefore shall ye put difference betweene cleane beastes and vncleane, & betweene vncleane foules and cleane: neither shall ye defile your selues with beastes and foules, nor with any creeping thing, that ye ground bringeth forth, which I haue separated from you as vncleane.

    26 Therefore shall ye be holie vnto me: for I the Lorde am holy, and I haue separated you from other people, that ye shoulde be mine.

  • Ezek 20:7
    78%

    7 Then sayd I vnto them, Let euery man cast away the abominations of his eyes, and defile not your selues with the idols of Egypt: for I am the Lord your God.

  • Deut 20:17-18
    2 verses
    78%

    17 But shalt vtterly destroy them: to wit, the Hittites, and the Amorites, the Canaanites, & the Perizzites, the Hiuites, and the Iebusites, as the Lord thy God hath commanded thee,

    18 That they teache you not to doe after all their abominations, which they haue done vnto their gods, & so ye should sinne against the Lorde your God.

  • Ezek 20:18-19
    2 verses
    78%

    18 But I said vnto their children in the wildernes, Walke ye not in the ordinances of your fathers, neither obserue their maners, nor defile your selues with their idoles.

    19 I am the Lord your God: walke in my statutes, and keepe my iudgements and doe them,

  • Deut 18:9
    78%

    9 When thou shalt come into ye land which the Lorde thy God giueth thee, thou shalt not learne to do after ye abominatios of those nations.

  • Deut 18:12
    77%

    12 For all that doe such things are abomination vnto the Lord, and because of these abominations the Lorde thy God doeth cast them out before thee.

  • 2 Kgs 17:8
    77%

    8 And walked according to the facions of the Heathen, whom the Lord had cast out before the children of Israel, and after the maners of the Kings of Israel, which they vsed,

  • Jer 2:7
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    7 And I brought you into a plentifull countrey, to eat the fruit thereof, and the commodities of the same: but when yee entred, yee defiled my land, and made mine heritage an abomination.

  • Deut 7:26
    76%

    26 Bring not therefore abomination into thine house, lest, thou be accursed like it, but vtterly abhorre it, and count it most abominable: for it is accursed.

  • Judg 2:2
    75%

    2 Ye also shall make no couenant with the inhabitants of this land, but shall breake downe their altars: but ye haue not obeyed my voyce. Why haue ye done this?

  • Num 35:34
    75%

    34 Defile not therefore the lande which yee shall inhabite, For I dwell in the middes thereof: for I the Lord dwel among the children of Israel.

  • Deut 9:4
    75%

    4 Speake not thou in thine heart (after that the Lord thy God hath cast them out before thee) saying, For my righteousnesse the Lorde hath brought me in, to possesse this land: but for the wickednesse of these nations the Lorde hath cast them out before thee.

  • Num 33:52
    75%

    52 Ye shall then driue out all the inhabitants of the land before you, and destroy all their pictures, and breake asunder all their images of metall, and plucke downe all their hie places.

  • Josh 23:5
    75%

    5 And the Lord your God shall expell them before you, and cast them out of your sight, and ye shall possesse their land, as the Lord your God hath said vnto you.

  • Josh 23:7
    74%

    7 Neither companie with these nations: that is, with them which are left with you, neither make mention of the name of their gods, nor cause to sweare by them, neither serue them nor bowe vnto them:

  • Ezra 9:11
    74%

    11 Which thou hast commanded by thy seruants the Prophets, saying, The land whereunto ye go to possesse it, is an vncleane land, because of the filthines of the people of the lands, which by their abominations, & by their vncleannes haue filled it from corner to corner.

  • Lev 26:15
    74%

    15 And if ye shall despise mine ordinances, either if your soule abhorre my lawes, so that yee will not do all my commandements, but breake my couenant,

  • Exod 23:32
    74%

    32 Thou shalt make no couenant with them, nor with their gods:

  • Deut 8:20
    74%

    20 As the nations which the Lord destroyeth before you, so ye shall perish, because ye woulde not be obedient vnto the voyce of the Lord your God.

  • Ezek 11:12
    74%

    12 And ye shall knowe that I am the Lorde: for ye haue not walked in my statutes, neither executed my iudgements, but haue done after the maners of the heathen, that are round about you.

  • Josh 7:12
    74%

    12 Therefore ye children of Israel cannot stand before their enemies, but haue turned their backes before their enemies, because they be execrable: neither will I bee with you any more, except ye destroy the excommunicate from among you.

  • Exod 23:24
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    24 Thou shalt not bow downe to their gods, neither serue them, nor doe after the workes of them: but vtterly ouerthrowe them, and breake in pieces their images.

  • Ezek 20:38
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    38 And I wil chuse out from among you the rebels, and them that transgresse against mee: I will bring them out of the land where they dwel, and they shall not enter into the lande of Israel, and you shall knowe that I am the Lord.

  • Ezek 20:15-16
    2 verses
    74%

    15 Yet neuerthelesse, I lift vp mine hande vnto them in the wildernes that I would not bring them into the lande, which I had giuen them, flowing with milke and hony, which was pleasant aboue all landes,

    16 Because they cast away my iudgments, and walked not in my statutes, but haue polluted my Sabbaths: for their heart went after their idoles.

  • Ezek 20:24
    74%

    24 Because they had not executed my iudgements, but had cast away my statutes and had polluted my Sabbaths, and their eyes were after their fathers idoles.

  • Deut 11:23
    74%

    23 Then will the Lorde cast out all these nations before you, and ye shall possesse great nations and mightier then you.

  • Jer 44:22
    74%

    22 So that the Lord could no longer forbeare, because of the wickednes of your inuentions, and because of the abominations, which ye haue committed: therefore is your lande desolate and an astonishment, and a curse and without inhabitant, as appeareth this day.

  • Lev 20:7
    73%

    7 Sanctifie your selues therefore, and be holie, for I am the Lorde your God.

  • Deut 20:15
    73%

    15 Thus shalt thou do vnto all ye cities, which are a great way off from thee, which are not of the cities of these nations here.

  • Ezek 20:13
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    13 But the house of Israel rebelled against me in the wildernes: they walked not in my statutes, and they cast away my iudgements, which if a man doe, he shall liue in them, and my Sabbaths haue they greatly polluted: then I thought to powre out mine indignation vpon them in the wildernes to consume them,

  • 2 Chr 7:20
    73%

    20 Then will I plucke them vp out of my lande, which I haue giuen them, and this house which I haue sanctified for my Name, will I cast out of my sight, and will make it to be a prouerbe and a common talke among all people.

  • Deut 14:3
    73%

    3 Thou shalt eate no maner of abominatio.

  • Ezek 5:7
    73%

    7 Therefore thus saith the Lorde God, Because your multitude is greater then the nations that are rounde about you, and ye haue not walked in my statutes, neither haue ye kept my iudgements: no, ye haue not done according to the iudgements of the nations, that are rounde about you,

  • Ezek 22:15
    73%

    15 And I wil scatter thee among the heathen, and disperse thee in the countreys, and will cause thy filthines to cease from thee.

  • Deut 25:16
    73%

    16 For all that doe such things, and all that doe vnrighteously, are abomination vnto the Lord thy God.