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Leviticus 20:23

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And ye shall not walk in the customs of the nation, which I cast out before you: for they did all these things, and therefore I abhorred them.

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Leviticus 20:23 in other translations

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.

Leviticus 20:23 · World English Bible

Leviticus 20:23 in context

  1. 21And if a man shall take his brother’s wife, it is impurity: he hath uncovered his brother’s nakedness; they shall be childless.
  2. 22Ye shall therefore keep all my statutes, and all mine ordinances, and do them; that the land, whither I bring you to dwell therein, vomit you not out.
  3. 23And ye shall not walk in the customs of the nation, which I cast out before you: for they did all these things, and therefore I abhorred them.
  4. 24But I have said unto you, Ye shall inherit their land, and I will give it unto you to possess it, a land flowing with milk and honey: I am Jehovah your God, who hath separated you from the peoples.
  5. 25Ye shall therefore make a distinction between the clean beast and the unclean, and between the unclean fowl and the clean: and ye shall not make your souls abominable by beast, or by bird, or by anything wherewith the ground teemeth, which I have separated from you as unclean.