Deuteronomy 18:9

Authorized King James Version (1611)

¶ When thou art come into the land which the LORD thy God giveth thee, thou shalt not learn to do after the abominations of those nations.

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Referenced Verses

  • Deut 12:29-31 : 29 When the LORD thy God shall cut off the nations from before thee, whither thou goest to possess them, and thou succeedest them, and dwellest in their land; 30 Take heed to thyself that thou be not snared by following them, after that they be destroyed from before thee; and that thou enquire not after their gods, saying, How did these nations serve their gods? even so will I do likewise. 31 Thou shalt not do so unto the LORD thy God: for every abomination to the LORD, which he hateth, have they done unto their gods; for even their sons and their daughters they have burnt in the fire to their gods.
  • Lev 18:26-27 : 26 Ye shall therefore keep my statutes and my judgments, and shall not commit [any] of these abominations; [neither] any of your own nation, nor any stranger that sojourneth among you: 27 (For all these abominations have the men of the land done, which [were] before you, and the land is defiled;)
  • Lev 18:30 : 30 Therefore shall ye keep mine ordinance, that [ye] commit not [any one] of these abominable customs, which were committed before you, and that ye defile not yourselves therein: I [am] the LORD your God.

Similar Verses (AI)

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  • Deut 20:18
    82%

    18That they teach you not to do after all their abominations, which they have done unto their gods; so should ye sin against the LORD your God.

  • Deut 18:10-14
    5 verses
    82%

    10There shall not be found among you [any one] that maketh his son or his daughter to pass through the fire, [or] that useth divination, [or] an observer of times, or an enchanter, or a witch,

    11Or a charmer, or a consulter with familiar spirits, or a wizard, or a necromancer.

    12For all that do these things [are] an abomination unto the LORD: and because of these abominations the LORD thy God doth drive them out from before thee.

    13Thou shalt be perfect with the LORD thy God.

    14For these nations, which thou shalt possess, hearkened unto observers of times, and unto diviners: but as for thee, the LORD thy God hath not suffered thee so [to do].

  • Lev 18:24
    79%

    24Defile not ye yourselves in any of these things: for in all these the nations are defiled which I cast out before you:

  • Deut 12:29-31
    3 verses
    79%

    29When the LORD thy God shall cut off the nations from before thee, whither thou goest to possess them, and thou succeedest them, and dwellest in their land;

    30Take heed to thyself that thou be not snared by following them, after that they be destroyed from before thee; and that thou enquire not after their gods, saying, How did these nations serve their gods? even so will I do likewise.

    31Thou shalt not do so unto the LORD thy God: for every abomination to the LORD, which he hateth, have they done unto their gods; for even their sons and their daughters they have burnt in the fire to their gods.

  • Lev 18:26-30
    5 verses
    79%

    26Ye shall therefore keep my statutes and my judgments, and shall not commit [any] of these abominations; [neither] any of your own nation, nor any stranger that sojourneth among you:

    27(For all these abominations have the men of the land done, which [were] before you, and the land is defiled;)

    28That the land spue not you out also, when ye defile it, as it spued out the nations that [were] before you.

    29For whosoever shall commit any of these abominations, even the souls that commit [them] shall be cut off from among their people.

    30Therefore shall ye keep mine ordinance, that [ye] commit not [any one] of these abominable customs, which were committed before you, and that ye defile not yourselves therein: I [am] the LORD your God.

  • Lev 18:3
    78%

    3After the doings of the land of Egypt, wherein ye dwelt, shall ye not do: and after the doings of the land of Canaan, whither I bring you, shall ye not do: neither shall ye walk in their ordinances.

  • Lev 20:23
    78%

    23And ye shall not walk in the manners of the nation, which I cast out before you: for they committed all these things, and therefore I abhorred them.

  • Exod 34:15-17
    3 verses
    77%

    15Lest thou make a covenant with the inhabitants of the land, and they go a whoring after their gods, and do sacrifice unto their gods, and [one] call thee, and thou eat of his sacrifice;

    16And thou take of their daughters unto thy sons, and their daughters go a whoring after their gods, and make thy sons go a whoring after their gods.

    17Thou shalt make thee no molten gods.

  • Deut 7:25-26
    2 verses
    77%

    25The graven images of their gods shall ye burn with fire: thou shalt not desire the silver or gold [that is] on them, nor take [it] unto thee, lest thou be snared therein: for it [is] an abomination to the LORD thy God.

    26Neither shalt thou bring an abomination into thine house, lest thou be a cursed thing like it: [but] thou shalt utterly detest it, and thou shalt utterly abhor it; for it [is] a cursed thing.

  • Deut 14:3
    77%

    3Thou shalt not eat any abominable thing.

  • Deut 12:4
    76%

    4Ye shall not do so unto the LORD your God.

  • Deut 13:11
    76%

    11And all Israel shall hear, and fear, and shall do no more any such wickedness as this is among you.

  • Josh 23:7
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    7That ye come not among these nations, these that remain among you; neither make mention of the name of their gods, nor cause to swear [by them], neither serve them, nor bow yourselves unto them:

  • Lev 18:21-22
    2 verses
    75%

    21And thou shalt not let any of thy seed pass through [the fire] to Molech, neither shalt thou profane the name of thy God: I [am] the LORD.

    22Thou shalt not lie with mankind, as with womankind: it [is] abomination.

  • Deut 25:16
    75%

    16For all that do such things, [and] all that do unrighteously, [are] an abomination unto the LORD thy God.

  • Deut 13:14
    74%

    14Then shalt thou enquire, and make search, and ask diligently; and, behold, [if it be] truth, [and] the thing certain, [that] such abomination is wrought among you;

  • Deut 17:4
    74%

    4And it be told thee, and thou hast heard [of it], and enquired diligently, and, behold, [it be] true, [and] the thing certain, [that] such abomination is wrought in Israel:

  • Deut 12:25
    74%

    25Thou shalt not eat it; that it may go well with thee, and with thy children after thee, when thou shalt do [that which is] right in the sight of the LORD.

  • Deut 17:1-2
    2 verses
    74%

    1¶ Thou shalt not sacrifice unto the LORD thy God [any] bullock, or sheep, wherein is blemish, [or] any evilfavouredness: for that [is] an abomination unto the LORD thy God.

    2If there be found among you, within any of thy gates which the LORD thy God giveth thee, man or woman, that hath wrought wickedness in the sight of the LORD thy God, in transgressing his covenant,

  • Exod 22:18
    74%

    18Thou shalt not suffer a witch to live.

  • Lev 19:31
    74%

    31Regard not them that have familiar spirits, neither seek after wizards, to be defiled by them: I [am] the LORD your God.

  • Lev 19:29
    74%

    29Do not prostitute thy daughter, to cause her to be a whore; lest the land fall to whoredom, and the land become full of wickedness.

  • Deut 6:14
    74%

    14Ye shall not go after other gods, of the gods of the people which [are] round about you;

  • Exod 34:12
    74%

    12Take heed to thyself, lest thou make a covenant with the inhabitants of the land whither thou goest, lest it be for a snare in the midst of thee:

  • Deut 4:25
    74%

    25When thou shalt beget children, and children's children, and ye shall have remained long in the land, and shall corrupt [yourselves], and make a graven image, [or] the likeness of any [thing], and shall do evil in the sight of the LORD thy God, to provoke him to anger:

  • Jer 10:2
    74%

    2Thus saith the LORD, Learn not the way of the heathen, and be not dismayed at the signs of heaven; for the heathen are dismayed at them.

  • Exod 23:32
    73%

    32Thou shalt make no covenant with them, nor with their gods.

  • Ps 81:9
    73%

    9There shall no strange god be in thee; neither shalt thou worship any strange god.

  • Deut 19:1
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    1¶ When the LORD thy God hath cut off the nations, whose land the LORD thy God giveth thee, and thou succeedest them, and dwellest in their cities, and in their houses;

  • Deut 7:3
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    3Neither shalt thou make marriages with them; thy daughter thou shalt not give unto his son, nor his daughter shalt thou take unto thy son.

  • Deut 29:17
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    17And ye have seen their abominations, and their idols, wood and stone, silver and gold, which [were] among them:)

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