Deuteronomy 18:12

World English Bible (2000)

For whoever does these things is an abomination to Yahweh: and because of these abominations Yahweh your God does drive them out from before you.

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Referenced Verses

  • Lev 18:24 : 24 "'Don't defile yourselves in any of these things: for in all these the nations which I am casting out before you were defiled.
  • Deut 9:4 : 4 Don't say in your heart, after Yahweh your God has thrust them out from before you, saying, "For my righteousness Yahweh has brought me in to possess this land;" because Yahweh drives them out before you because of the wickedness of these nations.
  • Lev 18:27 : 27 (for all these abominations have the men of the land done, that were before you, and the land became defiled);

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    16 For all who do such things, [even] all who do unrighteously, are an abomination to Yahweh your God.

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

    10 There shall not be found with you anyone who makes his son or his daughter to pass through the fire, one who uses divination, one who practices sorcery, or an enchanter, or a sorcerer,

    11 or a charmer, or a consulter with a familiar spirit, or a wizard, or a necromancer.

  • Lev 18:24-30
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    24 "'Don't defile yourselves in any of these things: for in all these the nations which I am casting out before you were defiled.

    25 The land was defiled: therefore I punished its iniquity, and the land vomited out her inhabitants.

    26 You therefore shall keep my statutes and my ordinances, and shall not do any of these abominations; neither the native-born, nor the stranger who lives as a foreigner among you;

    27 (for all these abominations have the men of the land done, that were before you, and the land became defiled);

    28 that the land not vomit you out also, when you defile it, as it vomited out the nation that was before you.

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

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  • Deut 12:30-31
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    30 take heed to yourself that you not be ensnared to follow them, after that they are destroyed from before you; and that you not inquire after their gods, saying, "How do these nations serve their gods? I will do likewise."

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  • Deut 7:25-26
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    25 You shall burn the engraved images of their gods with fire. You shall not covet the silver or the gold that is on them, nor take it for yourself, lest you be snared in it; for it is an abomination to Yahweh your God.

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  • Lev 20:22-23
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    22 "'You shall therefore keep all my statutes, and all my ordinances, and do them; that the land, where I am bringing you to dwell, may not vomit you out.

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    17 but you shall utterly destroy them: the Hittite, and the Amorite, the Canaanite, and the Perizzite, the Hivite, and the Jebusite; as Yahweh your God has commanded you;

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    13 You shall be perfect with Yahweh your God.

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    1 You shall not sacrifice to Yahweh your God an ox, or a sheep, in which is a blemish, [or] anything evil; for that is an abomination to Yahweh your God.

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    11 All Israel shall hear, and fear, and shall not do any more such wickedness as this is in the midst of you.

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    12 and they served idols, of which Yahweh had said to them, "You shall not do this thing."

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    14 then you shall inquire, and make search, and ask diligently; and, behold, if it be truth, and the thing certain, that such abomination is done in the midst of you,

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    18 "You shall not allow a sorceress to live.

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    4 You shall not do so to Yahweh your God.

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    19 to thrust out all your enemies from before you, as Yahweh has spoken.

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