Verse 3

You shall not do according to the practices of the land of Egypt, where you lived; and you shall not do according to the practices of the land of Canaan, where I bring you; you shall not walk in their ordinances.

Other Translations

• GT, oversatt fra Hebraisk

  Dere skal ikke gjøre som de gjorde i Egypt, der dere bodde, og dere skal ikke gjøre som de gjør i Kanaan, dit jeg fører dere. Dere skal ikke følge deres skikker.

• Moderne oversettelse av Bibelen fra 1611 KJV med hebraisk kontekst

  Dere skal ikke gjøre som i landet Egypt hvor dere bodde, og dere skal ikke gjøre som i landet Kanaan hvor jeg fører dere. Dere skal ikke følge deres skikker.

• Norsk King James

  Dere skal ikke følge praksisene fra Egypt, der dere bodde, eller fra Kanaan, landet jeg fører dere til; dere skal ikke følge deres forskrifter.

• Modernisert Norsk Bibel 1866

  Dere skal ikke gjøre som de gjorde i landet Egypt hvor dere bodde, og dere skal ikke gjøre som de gjør i Kanaans land, hvor jeg fører dere, og dere skal ikke følge deres skikker.

• Oversettelse av hebraiske Bibeltekster til moderne norsk bokmål

  Dere skal ikke gjøre som de gjorde i landet Egypt, hvor dere bodde. Og dere skal ikke gjøre som de gjør i landet Kanaan, hvor jeg fører dere inn. Dere skal ikke følge deres skikker.

• Bibelen: En Moderne Oversettelse av King James Version 1611

  Dere skal ikke gjøre som man gjør i Egypt, hvor dere bodde, og heller ikke som man gjør i Kanaans land, dit jeg fører dere. Følg ikke deres skikker.

• o3-mini KJV Norsk

  Dere skal ikke gjøre som de gjorde i Egypt, der dere bodde, og som de gjorde i Kanaan, dit jeg fører dere; dere skal heller ikke følge deres sedvaner.

• En Moderne Oversettelse av King James Version 1611 (mar 2025)

  Dere skal ikke gjøre som man gjør i Egypt, hvor dere bodde, og heller ikke som man gjør i Kanaans land, dit jeg fører dere. Følg ikke deres skikker.

• Lingvistisk bibeloversettelse fra grunntekst

  Dere skal ikke følge de skikker som ble praktisert i landet Egypt, hvor dere bodde, og dere skal heller ikke følge skikkene i Kanaan, hvor jeg fører dere. Dere skal ikke følge deres lover.

• Linguistic Bible Translation from Source Texts

  You must not behave like the people of Egypt, where you used to live, or like the people of Canaan, where I am bringing you. You must not follow their practices.

• biblecontext

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• GT, oversatt fra hebraisk Aug2024

  Dere skal ikke gjøre slik som man gjør i landet Egypt, hvor dere bodde, og dere skal ikke gjøre slik som man gjør i landet Kanaan, som jeg fører dere til; og dere skal ikke følge deres lover.

• Original Norsk Bibel 1866

  Efter Ægypti Lands Gjerning, som I boede udi, skulle I ikke gjøre, og efter Canaans Lands Gjerning, hvorhen jeg vil føre eder, skulle I ikke gjøre, og I skulle ikke vandre efter deres Skikke.

• King James Version 1769 (Standard Version)

  After the doings of the land of Egypt, wherein ye dwelt, shall ye not do: and after the doings of the land of Canaan, whither I bring you, shall ye not do: neither shall ye walk in their ordinances.

• KJV 1769 norsk

  Dere skal ikke gjøre som de gjorde i landet Egypt hvor dere bodde, og dere skal ikke gjøre som de gjør i landet Kanaan som jeg fører dere til. Dere skal ikke følge deres skikker.

• Norsk oversettelse av Webster

  Dere skal ikke gjøre som de gjør i landet Egypt, der dere bodde, og dere skal ikke gjøre som de gjør i landet Kanaan, dit jeg fører dere; dere skal ikke følge deres lover.

• Norsk oversettelse av Youngs Literal Translation

  Dere skal ikke gjøre som de gjør i landet Egypt, som dere har bodd i, og dere skal ikke gjøre som de gjør i landet Kanaan, dit jeg fører dere. Dere skal ikke følge deres lover.

• Norsk oversettelse av ASV1901

  Etter skikkene i landet Egypt, hvor dere bodde, skal dere ikke gjøre, og etter skikkene i landet Kana'an, dit jeg fører dere, skal dere ikke gjøre; dere skal ikke følge deres lover.

• Norsk oversettelse av BBE

  Dere skal ikke gjøre de tingene som ble gjort i Egypt, hvor dere bodde; og dere skal ikke gjøre de tingene som blir gjort i Kanaan, hvor jeg fører dere, eller la dere lede av deres regler.

• Tyndale Bible (1526/1534)

  Wherfore after the doynges of the land of Egipte wherein ye dwelt, se that ye doo not: nether after the doynges of the lande of Canaan, whether I will bringe you, nether walke ye in their ordinaunces,

• Coverdale Bible (1535)

  Ye shall not do after ye workes of the lande of Egipte, wherin ye dwelt: nether after the doynges of the lande of Canaan, in to the which I will brynge you. Ye shal not walke after their customes,

• Geneva Bible (1560)

  After ye doings of the land of Egypt, wherin ye dwelt, shall ye not doe: and after the maner of the land of Canaan, whither I will bring you, shal ye not do, neither walke in their ordinances,

• Bishops' Bible (1568)

  After the doynges of the lande of Egypt wherein ye dwelt, shall ye not do: and after the doinges of the lande of Chanaan whyther I wyll bryng you, shall ye not do: neither walke in their ordinaunces.

• Authorized King James Version (1611)

  After the doings of the land of Egypt, wherein ye dwelt, shall ye not do: and after the doings of the land of Canaan, whither I bring you, shall ye not do: neither shall ye walk in their ordinances.

• Webster's Bible (1833)

  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.

• Young's Literal Translation (1862/1898)

  according 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.

• American Standard Version (1901)

  After the doings of the land of Egypt, wherein ye dwelt, shall ye not do: and after the doings of the land of Canaan, whither I bring you, shall ye not do; neither shall ye walk in their statutes.

• Bible in Basic English (1941)

  You may not do those things which were done in the land of Egypt where you were living; and you may not do those things which are done in the land of Canaan where I am taking you, or be guided in your behaviour by their rules.

• World English Bible (2000)

  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.

• NET Bible® (New English Translation)

  You must not do as they do in the land of Egypt where you have been living, and you must not do as they do in the land of Canaan into which I am about to bring you; you must not walk in their statutes.

Referenced Verses

• Exod 23:24 : 24 You shall not bow down to their gods, nor serve them, nor do according to their works; but you shall utterly overthrow them and completely break down their sacred pillars.
• Lev 20:23 : 23 And you shall not walk in the manners of the nation which I cast out before you: for they committed all these things, and therefore I abhorred them.
• Ezek 20:7-8 : 7 Then I said to them, Cast away every man the abominations of his eyes, and do not defile yourselves with the idols of Egypt: I am the LORD your God. 8 But they rebelled against me, and would not listen to me: they did not cast away every man the abominations of their eyes, nor did they forsake the idols of Egypt: then I said, I will pour out my fury upon them, to accomplish my anger against them in the midst of the land of Egypt.
• Ezek 23:8 : 8 She did not leave her harlotries brought from Egypt: for in her youth they lay with her, and they bruised the breasts of her virginity, and poured their harlotry upon her.
• Deut 12:30-31 : 30 Take heed to yourself that you are not ensnared to follow them, after they are destroyed from before you; and that you do not enquire after their gods, asking, How did these nations serve their gods? I will do likewise. 31 You shall not do so to the LORD your God, for every abomination to the LORD which He hates they have done to their gods; for they have even burned their sons and daughters in the fire to their gods.
• Ps 106:35 : 35 But they were mingled among the heathen, and learned their works.
• Jer 10:2-3 : 2 Thus says the LORD, Do not learn the way of the heathen, and do not be dismayed at the signs of heaven; for the heathen are dismayed at them. 3 For the customs of the people are vain: for one cuts a tree out of the forest, the work of the hands of the workman, with the axe.
• Rom 12:2 : 2 And do not be conformed to this world: but be transformed by the renewing of your mind, that you may prove what is that good, and acceptable, and perfect, will of God.
• Eph 5:7-9 : 7 Therefore do not be partakers with them. 8 For you were once darkness, but now you are light in the Lord: walk as children of light: 9 (For the fruit of the Spirit is in all goodness and righteousness and truth;) 10 Finding out what is acceptable to the Lord. 11 And have no fellowship with the unfruitful works of darkness, but rather expose them.
• 1 Pet 4:2-4 : 2 That he should no longer live the rest of his time in the flesh to the lusts of men, but to the will of God. 3 For the time past of our life may suffice us to have done the will of the Gentiles, when we walked in sensuality, lusts, excess of wine, revelings, banquetings, and abominable idolatries: 4 Wherein they think it strange that you do not run with them in the same excess of riot, speaking evil of you:
• Deut 12:4 : 4 You shall not do so unto the LORD your God.
• Lev 18:24-30 : 24 Do not defile yourselves in any of these things: for in all these the nations are defiled, which I cast out before you. 25 And the land is defiled: therefore I visit the iniquity upon it, and the land itself vomits out its inhabitants. 26 You shall therefore keep my statutes and my judgments, and shall not commit any of these abominations; neither any of your own nation, nor any stranger who sojourns among you: 27 For all these abominations have the men of the land done, who were before you, and the land is defiled; 28 That the land not spew you out also, when you defile it, as it spewed out the nations that were before you. 29 For whoever commits any of these abominations, even the souls that commit them shall be cut off from among their people. 30 Therefore you shall keep my ordinance, that you do not commit any of these abominable customs, which were committed before you, and that you do not defile yourselves by them: I am the LORD your God.