Deuteronomy 18:9

World English Bible (2000)

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.

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  • Deut 12:29-31 : 29 When Yahweh your God shall cut off the nations from before you, where you go in to dispossess them, and you dispossess them, and dwell in their land; 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." 31 You shall not do so to Yahweh your God: for every abomination to Yahweh, which he hates, have they done to their gods; for even their sons and their daughters do they burn in the fire to their gods.
  • Lev 18:26-27 : 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);
  • Lev 18:30 : 30 Therefore you shall keep my requirements, that you do not practice any of these abominable customs, which were practiced before you, and that you do not defile yourselves with them: I am Yahweh your God.'"

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  • Deut 20:18
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    18that they not teach you to do after all their abominations, which they have done to their gods; so would you sin against Yahweh your God.

  • Deut 18:10-14
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    10There 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,

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

    12For whoever does these things is an abomination to Yahweh: and because of these abominations Yahweh your God does drive them out from before you.

    13You shall be perfect with Yahweh your God.

    14For these nations, that you shall dispossess, listen to those who practice sorcery, and to diviners; but as for you, Yahweh your God has not allowed you so to do.

  • Lev 18:24
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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.

  • Deut 12:29-31
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    29When Yahweh your God shall cut off the nations from before you, where you go in to dispossess them, and you dispossess them, and dwell in their land;

    30take 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."

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

  • Lev 18:26-30
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    26You 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);

    28that 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.

    30Therefore you shall keep my requirements, that you do not practice any of these abominable customs, which were practiced before you, and that you do not defile yourselves with them: I am Yahweh your God.'"

  • Lev 18:3
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    3You shall not do as they do in the land of Egypt, where you lived: and you shall not do as they do in the land of Canaan, where I am bringing you; neither shall you walk in their statutes.

  • Lev 20:23
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    23You shall not walk in the customs of the nation, which I am casting out before you: for they did all these things, and therefore I abhorred them.

  • Exod 34:15-17
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    15"Don't make a covenant with the inhabitants of the land, lest they play the prostitute after their gods, and sacrifice to their gods, and one call you and you eat of his sacrifice;

    16and you take of their daughters to your sons, and their daughters play the prostitute after their gods, and make your sons play the prostitute after their gods.

    17"You shall make no cast idols for yourselves.

  • Deut 7:25-26
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    25You 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.

    26You shall not bring an abomination into your house, and become a devoted thing like it. You shall utterly detest it, and you shall utterly abhor it; for it is a devoted thing.

  • Deut 14:3
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    3You shall not eat any abominable thing.

  • Deut 12:4
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    4You shall not do so to Yahweh your God.

  • Deut 13:11
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    11All Israel shall hear, and fear, and shall not do any more such wickedness as this is in the midst of you.

  • Josh 23:7
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    7that you not come 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 down yourselves to them;

  • Lev 18:21-22
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    21"'You shall not give any of your children to sacrifice to Molech; neither shall you profane the name of your God: I am Yahweh.

    22"'You shall not lie with a man, as with a woman. That is detestable.

  • Deut 25:16
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    16For all who do such things, [even] all who do unrighteously, are an abomination to Yahweh your God.

  • Deut 13:14
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    14then 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,

  • Deut 17:4
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    4and it be told you, and you have heard of it, then you shall inquire diligently; and behold, if it be true, and the thing certain, that such abomination is done in Israel,

  • Deut 12:25
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    25You shall not eat it; that it may go well with you, and with your children after you, when you shall do that which is right in the eyes of Yahweh.

  • Deut 17:1-2
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    1You 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.

    2If there be found in the midst of you, within any of your gates which Yahweh your God gives you, man or woman, who does that which is evil in the sight of Yahweh your God, in transgressing his covenant,

  • Exod 22:18
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    18"You shall not allow a sorceress to live.

  • Lev 19:31
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    31"'Don't turn to those who are mediums, nor to the wizards. Don't seek them out, to be defiled by them. I am Yahweh your God.

  • Lev 19:29
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    29"'Don't profane your daughter, to make her a prostitute; lest the land fall to prostitution, and the land become full of wickedness.

  • Deut 6:14
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    14You shall not go after other gods, of the gods of the peoples who are around you;

  • Exod 34:12
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    12Be careful, lest you make a covenant with the inhabitants of the land where you are going, lest it be for a snare in the midst of you:

  • Deut 4:25
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    25When you shall father children, and children's children, and you shall have been long in the land, and shall corrupt yourselves, and make an engraved image in the form of anything, and shall do that which is evil in the sight of Yahweh your God, to provoke him to anger;

  • Jer 10:2
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    2Thus says Yahweh, "Don't learn the way of the nations, and don't be dismayed at the signs of the sky; for the nations are dismayed at them.

  • Exod 23:32
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    32You shall make no covenant with them, nor with their gods.

  • Ps 81:9
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    9There shall be no strange god in you, neither shall you worship any foreign god.

  • Deut 19:1
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    1When Yahweh your God shall cut off the nations, whose land Yahweh your God gives you, and you succeed them, and dwell in their cities, and in their houses;

  • Deut 7:3
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    3neither shall you make marriages with them; your daughter you shall not give to his son, nor shall you take his daughter for your son.

  • Deut 29:17
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    17and you have seen their abominations, and their idols, wood and stone, silver and gold, which were among them);

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    12"But if you do at all go back, and hold fast to the remnant of these nations, even these who remain among you, and make marriages with them, and go in to them, and they to you;

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

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    9When you go forth in camp against your enemies, then you shall keep yourselves from every evil thing.

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    4"'Don't turn to idols, nor make molten gods for yourselves. I am Yahweh your God.