Deuteronomy 18:9

KJV1611 – Modern English

When you come into the land which the LORD your God gives you, you shall not learn to do after the abominations of those nations.

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  • Deut 12:29-31 : 29 When the LORD your God cuts off the nations from before you, where you go to dispossess them, and you take their place and dwell in their land; 30 Take heed to yourself that you are not ensnared to follow them, after they are destroyed from before you; and that you do not enquire after their gods, asking, How did these nations serve their gods? I will do likewise. 31 You shall not do so to the LORD your God, for every abomination to the LORD which He hates they have done to their gods; for they have even burned their sons and daughters in the fire to their gods.
  • Lev 18:26-27 : 26 You 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 who sojourns among you: 27 For all these abominations have the men of the land done, who were before you, and the land is defiled;
  • Lev 18:30 : 30 Therefore you shall keep my ordinance, that you do not commit any of these abominable customs, which were committed before you, and that you do not defile yourselves by them: I am the LORD your God.

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  • Deut 20:18
    82%

    18That they teach you not to do according to all their abominations, which they have done for their gods; so you would sin against the LORD your God.

  • Deut 18:10-14
    5 verses
    82%

    10There shall not be found among you anyone who makes his son or his daughter pass through the fire, or one who uses 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 who do these things are an abomination to the LORD: and because of these abominations the LORD your God drives them out from before you.

    13You shall be perfect with the LORD your God.

    14For these nations, which you shall possess, listened to observers of times, and to diviners: but as for you, the LORD your God has not allowed you to do so.

  • Lev 18:24
    79%

    24Do not defile 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 your God cuts off the nations from before you, where you go to dispossess them, and you take their place and dwell in their land;

    30Take heed to yourself that you are not ensnared to follow them, after they are destroyed from before you; and that you do not enquire after their gods, asking, How did these nations serve their gods? I will do likewise.

    31You shall not do so to the LORD your God, for every abomination to the LORD which He hates they have done to their gods; for they have even burned their sons and daughters in the fire to their gods.

  • Lev 18:26-30
    5 verses
    79%

    26You 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 who sojourns among you:

    27For all these abominations have the men of the land done, who were before you, and the land is defiled;

    28That the land not spew you out also, when you defile it, as it spewed out the nations that were before you.

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

    30Therefore you shall keep my ordinance, that you do not commit any of these abominable customs, which were committed before you, and that you do not defile yourselves by them: I am the LORD your God.

  • Lev 18:3
    78%

    3You shall not do according to the practices of the land of Egypt, where you lived; and you shall not do according to the practices of the land of Canaan, where I bring you; you shall not walk in their ordinances.

  • Lev 20:23
    78%

    23And you 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
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    15Lest you make a covenant with the inhabitants of the land, and they go whoring after their gods, and do sacrifice to their gods, and one of them invites you, and you eat his sacrifice.

    16And you take their daughters for your sons, and their daughters go whoring after their gods, and make your sons go whoring after their gods.

    17You shall make no molten gods for yourself.

  • Deut 7:25-26
    2 verses
    77%

    25The graven images of their gods you shall burn with fire: you shall not desire the silver or gold that is on them, nor take it to you, lest you be ensnared by it: for it is an abomination to the LORD your God.

    26Neither shall you bring an abomination into your house, lest you become a cursed thing like it: but you shall utterly detest it, and you shall utterly abhor it; for it is a cursed thing.

  • Deut 14:3
    77%

    3You shall not eat any abominable thing.

  • Deut 12:4
    76%

    4You 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 among you.

  • Josh 23:7
    76%

    7That you do not come among these nations, those that remain among you; neither make mention of the name of their gods, nor cause anyone to swear by them, neither serve them, nor bow yourselves down to them:

  • Lev 18:21-22
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    75%

    21And you shall not let any of your seed pass through the fire to Molech, nor shall you profane the name of your God: I am the LORD.

    22You shall not lie with mankind, as with womankind: it is an abomination.

  • Deut 25:16
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    16For all who do such things, and all who act unrighteously, are an abomination to the LORD your God.

  • Deut 13:14
    74%

    14Then shall you inquire, and make search, and ask diligently; and, behold, if it is true, and the thing certain, that such abomination is done among you;

  • Deut 17:4
    74%

    4and it is told to you, and you have heard of it and diligently inquired, and indeed it is true and certain that such an abomination has been committed in Israel,

  • Deut 12:25
    74%

    25You shall not eat it, that it may go well with you and with your children after you, when you do what is right in the sight of the LORD.

  • Deut 17:1-2
    2 verses
    74%

    1You shall not sacrifice to the LORD your God any bull or sheep that has a blemish or any defect, for that is an abomination to the LORD your God.

    2If there is found among you, within any of your gates which the LORD your God gives you, a man or woman who has done wickedness in the sight of the LORD your God by transgressing His covenant,

  • Exod 22:18
    74%

    18You shall not allow a witch to live.

  • Lev 19:31
    74%

    31Do not turn to those who have familiar spirits, nor seek after wizards, to be defiled by them: I am the LORD your God.

  • Lev 19:29
    74%

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

  • Deut 6:14
    74%

    14You shall not go after other gods, of the gods of the people who are all around you;

  • Exod 34:12
    74%

    12Take heed to yourself, lest you make a covenant with the inhabitants of the land where you are going, lest it become a snare in your midst.

  • Deut 4:25
    74%

    25When you beget children, and children's children, and have remained long in the land, and shall corrupt yourselves, and make a carved image, or the likeness of anything, and shall do evil in the sight of the LORD your God, to provoke him to anger:

  • Jer 10:2
    74%

    2Thus says the LORD, Do not learn the way of the heathen, and do not be dismayed at the signs of heaven; for the heathen are dismayed at them.

  • Exod 23:32
    73%

    32You shall make no covenant with them, nor with their gods.

  • Ps 81:9
    73%

    9There shall be no strange god among you; nor shall you worship any foreign god.

  • Deut 19:1
    73%

    1When the LORD your God has cut off the nations whose land the LORD your God gives you, and you succeed them and dwell in their cities and houses;

  • Deut 7:3
    73%

    3Neither shall you make marriages with them; your daughter you shall not give to his son, nor his daughter shall you take for your son.

  • Deut 29:17
    73%

    17And you have seen their abominations, and their idols of wood and stone, silver and gold, which were among them:)

  • Josh 23:12
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    12Otherwise, if you do at all turn back, and join to the remnant of these nations, even those that remain among you, and make marriages with them, and go in to them, and they to you:

  • Deut 13:7
    73%

    7Namely, of the gods of the people which are around you, near to you, or far off from you, from one end of the earth even to the other end of the earth;

  • Deut 23:9
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    9When the army goes forth against your enemies, then keep yourself from every wicked thing.

  • Lev 19:4
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    4Do not turn to idols, nor make for yourselves molten gods: I am the LORD your God.