Leviticus 18:30

World English Bible (2000)

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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  • Lev 20:23 : 23 You 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.
  • Lev 22:9 : 9 "'They shall therefore follow my requirements, lest they bear sin for it, and die therein, if they profane it. I am Yahweh who sanctifies them.
  • Deut 11:1 : 1 Therefore you shall love Yahweh your God, and keep his instructions, and his statutes, and his ordinances, and his commandments, always.
  • Deut 18:9-9 : 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. 12 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.
  • Lev 18:2-4 : 2 "Speak to the children of Israel, and say to them, 'I am Yahweh your God. 3 You 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. 4 You shall do my ordinances, and you shall keep my statutes, and walk in them: I am Yahweh your God.
  • 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);

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  • Lev 18:26-29
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    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.

  • Lev 19:30-31
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    84%

    30 "'You shall keep my Sabbaths, and reverence my sanctuary; I am Yahweh.

    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 18:2-6
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    2 "Speak to the children of Israel, and say to them, 'I am Yahweh your God.

    3 You 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.

    4 You shall do my ordinances, and you shall keep my statutes, and walk in them: I am Yahweh your God.

    5 You shall therefore keep my statutes and my ordinances; which if a man does, he shall live in them: I am Yahweh.

    6 "'None of you shall approach anyone who are his close relatives, to uncover their nakedness: I am Yahweh.

  • Lev 22:31-32
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    31 "Therefore you shall keep my commandments, and do them. I am Yahweh.

    32 You shall not profane my holy name, but I will be made holy among the children of Israel. I am Yahweh who makes you holy,

  • 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.

  • Lev 20:7-8
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    7 "'Sanctify yourselves therefore, and be holy; for I am Yahweh your God.

    8 You shall keep my statutes, and do them. I am Yahweh who sanctifies you.

  • 37 "'You shall observe all my statutes, and all my ordinances, and do them. I am Yahweh.'"

  • Lev 26:2-3
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    2 "'You shall keep my Sabbaths, and have reverence for my sanctuary. I am Yahweh.

    3 "'If you walk in my statutes, and keep my commandments, and do them;

  • 9 "'They shall therefore follow my requirements, lest they bear sin for it, and die therein, if they profane it. I am Yahweh who sanctifies them.

  • 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.

    23 You 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.

  • 7 I said to them, Cast away every man the abominations of his eyes, and don't defile yourselves with the idols of Egypt; I am Yahweh your God.

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    18 I said to their children in the wilderness, Don't walk in the statutes of your fathers, neither observe their ordinances, nor defile yourselves with their idols.

    19 I am Yahweh your God: walk in my statutes, and keep my ordinances, and do them;

  • 3 You shall not eat any abominable thing.

  • 18 that 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.

  • 30 Therefore tell the house of Israel, Thus says the Lord Yahweh: Do you pollute yourselves in the way of your fathers? and do you play the prostitute after their abominations?

  • 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.

  • Lev 11:43-44
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    43 You shall not make yourselves abominable with any creeping thing that creeps, neither shall you make yourselves unclean with them, that you should be defiled thereby.

    44 For I am Yahweh your God. Sanctify yourselves therefore, and be holy; for I am holy: neither shall you defile yourselves with any kind of creeping thing that moves on the earth.

  • 12 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.

  • Lev 18:20-22
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    20 "'You shall not lie carnally with your neighbor's wife, and defile yourself with her.

    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.

  • 31 "'Thus you shall separate the children of Israel from their uncleanness, so they will not die in their uncleanness, when they defile my tabernacle that is in their midst.'"

  • Lev 22:2-3
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    2 "Tell Aaron and his sons to separate themselves from the holy things of the children of Israel, which they make holy to me, and that they not profane my holy name. I am Yahweh.

    3 "Tell them, 'If anyone of all your seed throughout your generations approaches the holy things, which the children of Israel make holy to Yahweh, having his uncleanness on him, that soul shall be cut off from before me. I am Yahweh.

  • Lev 19:2-4
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    2 "Speak to all the congregation of the children of Israel, and tell them, 'You shall be holy; for I Yahweh your God am holy.

    3 "'Each one of you shall respect his mother and his father. You shall keep my Sabbaths. I am Yahweh your God.

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

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

  • Lev 20:25-26
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    25 "'You shall therefore make a distinction between the clean animal and the unclean, and between the unclean fowl and the clean: and you shall not make yourselves abominable by animal, or by bird, or by anything with which the ground teems, which I have separated from you as unclean for you.

    26 You shall be holy to me: for I, Yahweh, am holy, and have set you apart from the peoples, that you should be mine.

  • 34 You shall not defile the land which you inhabit, in the midst of which I dwell: for I, Yahweh, dwell in the midst of the children of Israel.'"

  • 40 that you may remember and do all my commandments, and be holy to your God.

  • 28 "'You shall not make any cuttings in your flesh for the dead, nor tattoo any marks on you. I am Yahweh.

  • 18 "'Therefore you shall do my statutes, and keep my ordinances and do them; and you shall dwell in the land in safety.

  • 26 You 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.

  • 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;