Leviticus 20:23

World English Bible (2000)

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.

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  • Lev 18:3 : 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.
  • 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.
  • 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.'"
  • Deut 9:5 : 5 Not for your righteousness, or for the uprightness of your heart, do you go in to possess their land; but for the wickedness of these nations Yahweh your God does drive them out from before you, and that he may establish the word which Yahweh swore to your fathers, to Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob.
  • Lev 18:27 : 27 (for all these abominations have the men of the land done, that were before you, and the land became defiled);
  • Deut 12:30-31 : 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.
  • Ps 78:59 : 59 When God heard this, he was angry, and greatly abhorred Israel;
  • Jer 10:1-2 : 1 Hear the word which Yahweh speaks to you, house of Israel! 2 Thus 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.
  • Zech 11:8 : 8 I cut off the three shepherds in one month; for my soul was weary of them, and their soul also loathed me.

Similar Verses (AI)

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  • Lev 18:24-30
    7 verses
    83%

    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.

    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.'"

  • Lev 20:22
    82%

    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.

  • Lev 18:3-4
    2 verses
    80%

    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 20:24-26
    3 verses
    79%

    24 But I have said to you, "You shall inherit their land, and I will give it to you to possess it, a land flowing with milk and honey." I am Yahweh your God, who has separated you from the peoples.

    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.

  • Ezek 20:7
    78%

    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.

  • Deut 20:17-18
    2 verses
    78%

    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;

    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.

  • Ezek 20:18-19
    2 verses
    78%

    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;

  • Deut 18:9
    78%

    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.

  • Deut 18:12
    77%

    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.

  • 2 Kgs 17:8
    77%

    8 and walked in the statutes of the nations, whom Yahweh cast out from before the children of Israel, and of the kings of Israel, which they made.

  • Jer 2:7
    76%

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

  • Deut 7:26
    76%

    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.

  • Judg 2:2
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    2 and you shall make no covenant with the inhabitants of this land; you shall break down their altars.' But you have not listened to my voice: why have you done this?

  • Num 35:34
    75%

    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.'"

  • Deut 9:4
    75%

    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.

  • Num 33:52
    75%

    52 then you shall drive out all the inhabitants of the land from before you, and destroy all their figured [stones], and destroy all their molten images, and demolish all their high places:

  • Josh 23:5
    75%

    5 Yahweh your God will thrust them out from before you, and drive them from out of your sight. You shall possess their land, as Yahweh your God spoke to you.

  • Josh 23:7
    74%

    7 that 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;

  • Ezra 9:11
    74%

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

  • Lev 26:15
    74%

    15 and if you shall reject my statutes, and if your soul abhors my ordinances, so that you will not do all my commandments, but break my covenant;

  • Exod 23:32
    74%

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

  • Deut 8:20
    74%

    20 As the nations that Yahweh makes to perish before you, so you shall perish; because you wouldn't listen to the voice of Yahweh your God.

  • Ezek 11:12
    74%

    12 and you shall know that I am Yahweh: for you have not walked in my statutes, neither have you executed my ordinances, but have done after the ordinances of the nations that are around you.

  • Josh 7:12
    74%

    12 Therefore the children of Israel can't stand before their enemies. They turn their backs before their enemies, because they have become devoted for destruction. I will not be with you any more, unless you destroy the devoted things from among you.

  • Exod 23:24
    74%

    24 You shall not bow down to their gods, nor serve them, nor follow their practices, but you shall utterly overthrow them and demolish their pillars.

  • Ezek 20:38
    74%

    38 and I will purge out from among you the rebels, and those who disobey against me; I will bring them forth out of the land where they live, but they shall not enter into the land of Israel: and you shall know that I am Yahweh.

  • Ezek 20:15-16
    2 verses
    74%

    15 Moreover also I swore to them in the wilderness, that I would not bring them into the land which I had given them, flowing with milk and honey, which is the glory of all lands;

    16 because they rejected my ordinances, and didn't walk in my statutes, and profaned my Sabbaths: for their heart went after their idols.

  • Ezek 20:24
    74%

    24 because they had not executed my ordinances, but had rejected my statutes, and had profaned my Sabbaths, and their eyes were after their fathers' idols.

  • Deut 11:23
    74%

    23 then will Yahweh drive out all these nations from before you, and you shall dispossess nations greater and mightier than yourselves.

  • Jer 44:22
    74%

    22 so that Yahweh could no longer bear, because of the evil of your doings, and because of the abominations which you have committed; therefore your land has become a desolation, and an astonishment, and a curse, without inhabitant, as it is this day.

  • Lev 20:7
    73%

    7 "'Sanctify yourselves therefore, and be holy; for I am Yahweh your God.

  • Deut 20:15
    73%

    15 Thus you shall do to all the cities which are very far off from you, which are not of the cities of these nations.

  • Ezek 20:13
    73%

    13 But the house of Israel rebelled against me in the wilderness: they didn't walk in my statutes, and they rejected my ordinances, which if a man keep, he shall live in them; and my Sabbaths they greatly profaned. Then I said I would pour out my wrath on them in the wilderness, to consume them.

  • 2 Chr 7:20
    73%

    20 then I will pluck them up by the roots out of my land which I have given them; and this house, which I have made holy for my name, I will cast out of my sight, and I will make it a proverb and a byword among all peoples.

  • Deut 14:3
    73%

    3 You shall not eat any abominable thing.

  • Ezek 5:7
    73%

    7 Therefore thus says the Lord Yahweh: Because you are turbulent more than the nations that are around you, and have not walked in my statutes, neither have kept my ordinances, neither have done after the ordinances of the nations that are around you;

  • Ezek 22:15
    73%

    15 I will scatter you among the nations, and disperse you through the countries; and I will consume your filthiness out of you.

  • Deut 25:16
    73%

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