Leviticus 18:24

KJV1611 – Modern English

Do not defile yourselves in any of these things: for in all these the nations are defiled, which I cast out before you.

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  • Linguistic Bible Translation from Source Texts

    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.

  • King James Version 1769 (Standard Version)

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

  • American Standard Version with Strong's Numbers

    Defile{H2930} not ye yourselves in any of these things:{H428} for in all these the nations{H1471} are defiled{H2930} which I cast out{H7971} from before{H6440} you;

  • King James Version with Strong's Numbers

    Defile{H2930}{(H8691)} not ye yourselves in any of these things{H428}: for in all these the nations{H1471} are defiled{H2930}{(H8738)} which I cast out{H7971}{(H8764)} before{H6440} you:

  • Tyndale Bible (1526/1534)

    Defile not youre selues in any of these thinges, for with all these thinges are these nacions defiled whiche I cast out before you:

  • Coverdale Bible (1535)

    Ye shal defyle youre selues in none of these thinges. For ye Heithen (whom I wil cast out before you) haue stayned them selues in all these,

  • Geneva Bible (1560)

    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:

  • Bishops' Bible (1568)

    Ye shall not defile your selues in any of these thinges: for in all these, the nations are defiled whiche I cast out before you.

  • Authorized King James Version (1611)

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

  • Webster's Bible (1833)

    "'Don't defile yourselves in any of these things: for in all these the nations which I am casting out before you were defiled.

  • Young's Literal Translation (1862/1898)

    `Ye are not defiled with all these, for with all these have the nations been defiled which I am sending away from before you;

  • American Standard Version (1901)

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

  • American Standard Version (1901)

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

  • Bible in Basic English (1941)

    Do not make yourself unclean in any of these ways; for so have those nations whom I am driving out from before you made themselves unclean:

  • World English Bible (2000)

    "'Don't defile yourselves in any of these things: for in all these the nations which I am casting out before you were defiled.

  • NET Bible® (New English Translation)

    Warning against the Abominations of the Nations“‘Do not defile yourselves with any of these things, for the nations which I am about to drive out before you have been defiled with all these things.

Referenced Verses

  • Deut 18:12 : 12 For 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.
  • 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.
  • Lev 20:22-23 : 22 You shall therefore keep all my statutes and all my judgments, and do them: that the land where I bring you to dwell does not vomit you out. 23 And 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.
  • Deut 12:31 : 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 18:3 : 3 You 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 18:6-9 : 6 None of you shall approach anyone who is near of kin to uncover their nakedness: I am the LORD. 7 The nakedness of your father or the nakedness of your mother you shall not uncover: she is your mother; you shall not uncover her nakedness. 8 The nakedness of your father's wife you shall not uncover: it is your father's nakedness. 9 The nakedness of your sister, the daughter of your father or daughter of your mother, whether born at home or born abroad, their nakedness you shall not uncover. 10 The nakedness of your son's daughter, or of your daughter's daughter, their nakedness you shall not uncover: for theirs is your own nakedness. 11 The nakedness of your father's wife's daughter, begotten by your father, she is your sister, you shall not uncover her nakedness. 12 You shall not uncover the nakedness of your father's sister: she is your father's near kinswoman. 13 You shall not uncover the nakedness of your mother's sister: for she is your mother's near kinswoman. 14 You shall not uncover the nakedness of your father's brother; you shall not approach his wife: she is your aunt. 15 You shall not uncover the nakedness of your daughter-in-law: she is your son's wife; you shall not uncover her nakedness. 16 You shall not uncover the nakedness of your brother's wife: it is your brother's nakedness. 17 You shall not uncover the nakedness of a woman and her daughter, nor shall you take her son's daughter or her daughter's daughter, to uncover her nakedness; for they are her near kinswomen: it is wickedness. 18 Nor shall you take a wife to her sister, to vex her, to uncover her nakedness, besides the other in her lifetime. 19 Also you shall not approach a woman to uncover her nakedness as long as she is put apart for her uncleanness. 20 Moreover, you shall not lie carnally with your neighbor's wife, to defile yourself with her. 21 And 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. 22 You shall not lie with mankind, as with womankind: it is an abomination. 23 Nor shall you lie with any beast to defile yourself with it: neither shall any woman stand before a beast to lie down with it: it is confusion.
  • Jer 44:4 : 4 However I sent to you all my servants the prophets, rising early and sending them, saying, Oh, do not do this abominable thing that I hate.
  • Matt 15:18-20 : 18 But those things which proceed out of the mouth come from the heart; and they defile a man. 19 For out of the heart proceed evil thoughts, murders, adulteries, fornications, thefts, false witness, blasphemies: 20 These are the things which defile a man: but to eat with unwashed hands does not defile a man.
  • Mark 7:10-23 : 10 For Moses said, Honor your father and your mother; and, Whoever curses father or mother, let him be put to death. 11 But you say, If a man says to his father or mother, It is Corban, that is, a gift to God, by which you might have been benefited by me; he shall be free. 12 And you no longer allow him to do anything for his father or his mother, 13 Making the word of God of no effect through your tradition, which you have handed down; and you do many similar things. 14 And when he had called all the people to him, he said to them, Listen to me, every one of you, and understand: 15 There is nothing that enters a man from outside which can defile him; but the things which come out of him, those are what defile a man. 16 If anyone has ears to hear, let him hear. 17 And when he had entered a house away from the crowd, his disciples asked him concerning the parable. 18 And he said to them, Are you also without understanding? Do you not perceive that whatever enters a man from outside cannot defile him, 19 Because it does not enter his heart but his stomach, and is eliminated, purging all foods? 20 And he said, What comes out of a man is what defiles a man. 21 For from within, out of the heart of men, proceed evil thoughts, adulteries, fornications, murders, 22 Thefts, covetousness, wickedness, deceit, lewdness, an evil eye, blasphemy, pride, foolishness: 23 All these evil things come from within and defile a man.
  • 1 Cor 3:17 : 17 If anyone defiles the temple of God, God will destroy him; for the temple of God is holy, which temple you are.

Similar Verses (AI)

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  • Lev 18:25-30
    6 verses
    87%

    25 And the land is defiled: therefore I visit the iniquity upon it, and the land itself vomits out its inhabitants.

    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;

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

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

    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.

  • Lev 20:22-23
    2 verses
    83%

    22 You shall therefore keep all my statutes and all my judgments, and do them: that the land where I bring you to dwell does not vomit you out.

    23 And 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.

  • Lev 18:19-23
    5 verses
    82%

    19 Also you shall not approach a woman to uncover her nakedness as long as she is put apart for her uncleanness.

    20 Moreover, you shall not lie carnally with your neighbor's wife, to defile yourself with her.

    21 And 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.

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

    23 Nor shall you lie with any beast to defile yourself with it: neither shall any woman stand before a beast to lie down with it: it is confusion.

  • Deut 18:12
    80%

    12 For 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.

  • Deut 18:9
    79%

    9 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.

  • Lev 20:25
    79%

    25 You shall therefore make a difference between clean beasts and unclean, and between unclean birds and clean: and you shall not make your souls abominable by beast, or by bird, or by any manner of living thing that creeps on the ground, which I have separated from you as unclean.

  • Num 35:34
    78%

    34 Therefore do not defile the land which you shall inhabit, where I dwell: for I the LORD dwell among the children of Israel.

  • Ezra 9:11
    77%

    11 Which You have commanded by Your servants the prophets, saying, The land unto which you go to possess it is an unclean land with the filthiness of the peoples of the lands, with their abominations, which have filled it from one end to another with their uncleanness.

  • Lev 11:43-44
    2 verses
    77%

    43 You shall not make yourselves abominable with any creeping thing that creeps, nor shall you make yourselves unclean with them, that you should be defiled by them.

    44 For I am the LORD your God: therefore you shall sanctify yourselves, and you shall be holy; for I am holy: nor shall you defile yourselves with any manner of creeping thing that creeps upon the earth.

  • Deut 20:18
    76%

    18 That 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.

  • Lev 15:31
    76%

    31 Thus shall you separate the children of Israel from their uncleanness; that they do not die in their uncleanness, when they defile my tabernacle that is among them.

  • Deut 14:3
    76%

    3 You shall not eat any abominable thing.

  • Num 5:3
    76%

    3 Both male and female shall you put out; outside the camp shall you put them, so that they do not defile their camps where I dwell among them.

  • Deut 7:26
    76%

    26 Neither 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.

  • Ezek 20:7
    76%

    7 Then I said to them, Cast away every man the abominations of his eyes, and do not defile yourselves with the idols of Egypt: I am the LORD your God.

  • Lev 18:3
    75%

    3 You 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.

  • Isa 30:22
    75%

    22 You shall defile also the covering of your graven images of silver, and the ornament of your molten images of gold: you shall cast them away as a menstrual cloth; you shall say to it, Be gone.

  • Exod 34:15
    75%

    15 Lest 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.

  • Deut 25:16
    75%

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

  • Ezek 36:17
    75%

    17 Son of man, when the house of Israel lived in their own land, they defiled it by their own way and by their doings: their way was before me as the uncleanness of a removed woman.

  • Josh 6:18
    75%

    18 And you, by all means keep yourselves from the accursed thing, lest you make yourselves accursed, when you take of the accursed thing, and make the camp of Israel a curse, and trouble it.

  • Deut 17:1
    74%

    1 You 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.

  • Lev 11:28
    74%

    28 And he that carries the carcass of them shall wash his clothes, and be unclean until the evening: they are unclean to you.

  • Deut 24:4
    74%

    4 Her former husband, who sent her away, may not take her again to be his wife, after she is defiled; for that is an abomination before the LORD: and you shall not cause the land to sin, which the LORD your God gives you as an inheritance.

  • Lev 11:26
    74%

    26 The carcasses of every beast which divides the hoof, and is not cloven-footed, nor chews the cud, are unclean to you: everyone that touches them shall be unclean.

  • Deut 17:4
    74%

    4 and 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,

  • Josh 23:7
    74%

    7 That 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 11:47
    74%

    47 To make a difference between the unclean and the clean, and between the animal that may be eaten and the animal that may not be eaten.

  • Lev 11:24
    74%

    24 And for these you shall be unclean: whoever touches the carcass of them shall be unclean until the evening.

  • Exod 22:31
    74%

    31 And you shall be holy men to me; neither shall you eat any meat torn by beasts in the field; you shall throw it to the dogs.

  • Exod 22:19
    74%

    19 Whoever lies with an animal shall surely be put to death.

  • Jer 2:7
    73%

    7 And I brought you into a plentiful country, to eat its fruit and its goodness; but when you entered, you defiled my land, and made my heritage an abomination.

  • Lev 22:6
    73%

    6 The soul who has touched any such thing shall be unclean until evening, and shall not eat of the holy things, unless he washes his flesh with water.

  • Lev 19:19
    73%

    19 You shall keep my statutes. You shall not let your livestock breed with another kind; you shall not sow your field with mixed seed; nor shall a garment mixed of linen and wool come upon you.

  • Lev 11:8
    73%

    8 Of their flesh you shall not eat, and their carcass you shall not touch; they are unclean to you.

  • Lev 17:15
    73%

    15 And every soul that eats what died of itself, or what was torn with beasts, whether it be one of your own country, or a stranger, he shall both wash his clothes and bathe himself in water, and be unclean until the evening: then shall he be clean.

  • 1 Kgs 14:24
    73%

    24 And there were also male shrine prostitutes in the land: and they did according to all the abominations of the nations which the LORD cast out before the children of Israel.

  • Lev 15:18
    73%

    18 The woman also with whom a man lies with seed of emission, they shall both bathe themselves in water, and be unclean until the evening.

  • Ezek 4:13
    73%

    13 And the LORD said, Even thus shall the children of Israel eat their defiled bread among the Gentiles, where I will drive them.