Deuteronomy 20:18

Young's Literal Translation (1862/1898)

so that they teach you not to do according to all their abominations which they have done to their gods, and ye have sinned against Jehovah your God.

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  • Deut 12:30-31 : 30 take heed to thee, lest thou be snared after them, after their being destroyed out of thy presence, and lest thou enquire about their gods, saying, How do these nations serve their gods, and I do so -- even I? 31 `Thou dost not do so to Jehovah thy God; for every abomination of Jehovah which He is hating they have done to their gods, for even their sons and their daughters they burn with fire to their gods.
  • Exod 23:33 : 33 they do not dwell in thy land, lest they cause thee to sin against Me when thou servest their gods, when it becometh a snare to thee.'
  • Ps 106:34-40 : 34 They have not destroyed the peoples, As Jehovah had said to them, 35 And mix themselves among nations, and learn their works, 36 And serve their idols, And they are to them for a snare. 37 And they sacrifice their sons And their daughters to destroyers, 38 And they shed innocent blood -- Blood of their sons and of their daughters, Whom they have sacrificed to idols of Canaan, And the land is profaned with blood. 39 And they are defiled with their works, And commit whoredom in their habitual doings. 40 And the anger of Jehovah Is kindled against His people, And He doth abominate His inheritance.
  • 1 Cor 15:33 : 33 Be not led astray; evil communications corrupt good manners;
  • 2 Cor 6:17 : 17 wherefore, come ye forth out of the midst of them, and be separated, saith the Lord, and an unclean thing do not touch, and I -- I will receive you,
  • Eph 5:11 : 11 and have no fellowship with the unfruitful works of the darkness and rather even convict,
  • 2 Thess 3:14 : 14 and if any one do not obey our word through the letter, this one note ye, and have no company with him, that he may be ashamed,
  • 1 Tim 6:5 : 5 wranglings of men wholly corrupted in mind, and destitute of the truth, supposing the piety to be gain; depart from such;
  • 2 Tim 2:17-18 : 17 and their word as a gangrene will have pasture, of whom is Hymenaeus and Philetus, 18 who concerning the truth did swerve, saying the rising again to have already been, and do overthrow the faith of some;
  • Rev 18:3-5 : 3 because of the wine of the wrath of her whoredom have all the nations drunk, and the kings of the earth with her did commit whoredom, and merchants of the earth from the power of her revel were made rich. 4 And I heard another voice out of the heaven, saying, `Come forth out of her, My people, that ye may not partake with her sins, and that ye may not receive of her plagues, 5 because her sins did follow -- unto the heaven, and God did remember her unrighteousness.
  • Exod 34:16 : 16 and thou hast taken of their daughters to thy sons, and their daughters have gone a-whoring after their gods, and have caused thy sons to go a-whoring after their gods;
  • Deut 7:4-5 : 4 for he doth turn aside thy son from after Me, and they have served other gods, and the anger of Jehovah hath burned against you, and hath destroyed thee hastily. 5 `But thus thou dost to them: their altars ye break down, and their standing pillars ye shiver, and their shrines ye cut down, and their graven images ye burn with fire;
  • Deut 18:19 : 19 and it hath been -- the man who doth not hearken unto My words which he doth speak in My name, I require `it' of him.
  • Josh 23:13 : 13 know certainly that Jehovah your God is not continuing to dispossess these nations from before you, and they have been to you for a gin, and for a snare, and for a scourge, in your sides, and for thorns in your eyes, till ye perish from off this good ground which Jehovah your God hath given to you.
  • Judg 2:3 : 3 And I also have said, I do not cast them out from your presence, and they have been to you for adversaries, and their gods are to you for a snare.'

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  • Deut 18:9
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    9`When thou art coming in unto the land which Jehovah thy God is giving to thee, thou dost not learn to do according to the abominations of those nations:

  • Deut 12:30-31
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    30take heed to thee, lest thou be snared after them, after their being destroyed out of thy presence, and lest thou enquire about their gods, saying, How do these nations serve their gods, and I do so -- even I?

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    23and ye walk not in the statutes of the nation which I am sending away from before you, for all these they have done, and I am wearied with them;

  • Deut 20:17
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    17for thou dost certainly devote the Hittite, and the Amorite, the Canaanite, and the Perizzite, the Hivite, and the Jebusite, as Jehovah thy God hath commanded thee,

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    3and ye have broken down their altars, and shivered their standing pillars, and their shrines ye burn with fire, and graven images of their gods ye cut down, and have destroyed their name out of that place.

    4`Ye do not do so to Jehovah your God;

  • Deut 18:12
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    12`For the abomination of Jehovah `is' every one doing these, and because of these abominations is Jehovah thy God dispossessing them from thy presence.

  • Lev 18:26-30
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    26and ye -- ye have kept My statutes and My judgments, and do not `any' of all these abominations, the native and the sojourner who is sojourning in your midst,

    27(for all these abominations have the men of the land done who `are' before you, and the land is defiled),

    28and the land doth not vomit you out in your defiling it, as it hath vomited out the nation which `is' before you;

    29for any one who doth `any' of all these abominations -- even the persons who are doing `so', have been cut off from the midst of their people;

    30and ye have kept My charge, so as not to do `any' of the abominable statutes which have been done before you, and ye do not defile yourselves with them; I `am' Jehovah your God.'

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    12and serve the idols, of which Jehovah said to them, `Ye do not do this thing;'

  • Exod 23:24
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    24`Thou dost not bow thyself to their gods, nor serve them, nor do according to their doings, but dost utterly devote them, and thoroughly break their standing pillars.

  • Lev 18:24
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    24`Ye are not defiled with all these, for with all these have the nations been defiled which I am sending away from before you;

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    3according to the work of the land of Egypt in which ye have dwelt ye do not, and according to the work of the land of Canaan whither I am bringing you in, ye do not, and in their statutes ye walk not.

  • Exod 34:15-17
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    15`Lest thou make a covenant with the inhabitant of the land, and they have gone a-whoring after their gods, and have sacrificed to their gods, and `one' hath called to thee, and thou hast eaten of his sacrifice,

    16and thou hast taken of their daughters to thy sons, and their daughters have gone a-whoring after their gods, and have caused thy sons to go a-whoring after their gods;

    17a molten god thou dost not make to thyself.

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    7And I say unto them, Let each cast away the detestable things of his eyes, And with the idols of Egypt be not defiled, I `am' Jehovah your God.

  • Deut 29:17
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    17and ye see their abominations, and their idols, wood and stone, silver and gold, which `are' with them,

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    20as the nations whom Jehovah is destroying from your presence, so ye perish; because ye hearken not to the voice of Jehovah your God.

  • Exod 23:32-33
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    32thou dost not make a covenant with them, and with their gods;

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    16for the abomination of Jehovah thy God `is' any one doing these things, any one doing iniquity.

  • Deut 7:25-26
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    25`The graven images of their gods ye do burn with fire; thou dost not desire the silver and gold on them, nor hast thou taken `it' to thyself, lest thou be snared by it, for the abomination of Jehovah thy God it `is';

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    11and all Israel do hear and fear, and add not to do like this evil thing in thy midst.

  • Deut 20:15
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    15So thou dost do to all the cities which are very far off from thee, which are not of the cities of these nations.

  • Judg 2:2
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  • Deut 19:20
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    20and those who are left do hear and fear, and add not to do any more according to this evil thing in thy midst;

  • Exod 34:12
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    12take heed to thyself, lest thou make a covenant with the inhabitant of the land into which thou art going, lest it become a snare in thy midst;

  • Josh 6:18
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    18and surely ye have kept from the devoted thing, lest ye devote `yourselves', and have taken from the devoted thing, and have made the camp of Israel become a devoted thing, and have troubled it;

  • 2 Kgs 17:35
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  • Ezek 20:4
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    4Dost thou judge them? Dost thou judge, son of man? The abominations of their fathers cause them to know,

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    14ye do not go after other gods, of the gods of the peoples who `are' round about you;

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    20`And unto the wife of thy fellow thou dost not give thy seed of copulation, for uncleanness with her.

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