KJV King James Version
And ye 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.
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Leviticus 20:23
And ye 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.
Read it in 5 translations
BSB Berean Standard Bible
You must not follow the statutes of the nations I am driving out before you. Because they did all these things, I abhorred them.
WEB World English Bible
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.
ASV American Standard Version
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.
YLT Young’s Literal Translation
and 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;
Surrounding context — Leviticus 20
20 And if a man shall lie with his uncle’s wife, he hath uncovered his uncle’s nakedness: they shall bear their sin; they shall die childless.
21 And if a man shall take his brother’s wife, it [is] an unclean thing: he hath uncovered his brother’s nakedness; they shall be childless.
22 Ye shall therefore keep all my statutes, and all my judgments, and do them: that the land, whither I bring you to dwell therein, spue you not out.
23 And ye 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.
24 But I have said unto you, Ye shall inherit their land, and I will give it unto you to possess it, a land that floweth with milk and honey: I [am] the LORD your God, which have separated you from [other] people.
25 Ye shall therefore put difference between clean beasts and unclean, and between unclean fowls and clean: and ye shall not make your souls abominable by beast, or by fowl, or by any manner of living thing that creepeth on the ground, which I have separated from you as unclean.
26 And ye shall be holy unto me: for I the LORD [am] holy, and have severed you from [other] people, that ye should be mine.
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These Hebrew/Greek tokens are linked by Strong's number. Click one for its lexicon definition and other occurrences.
וְלֹ֤אH3808 · lonotתֵֽלְכוּ֙H1980 · ha.lakhto go: wentבְּחֻקֹּ֣תH2708 · chuq.qahstatuteהַגּ֔וֹיH1471 · goynationאֲשֶׁר־H834 · a.sherwhichאֲנִ֥יH589 · a.niIמְשַׁלֵּ֖חַH7971 · sha.lachto send: departמִפְּנֵיכֶ֑םH6440 · pa.nehface: beforeכִּ֤יH3588 · kiforאֶת־H853 · et[Obj.]כָּל־H3605 · kolallאֵ֙לֶּה֙H428 · el.lehtheseעָשׂ֔וּH6213 · a.sahto make: doוָאָקֻ֖ץH6973 · qutsto loatheבָּֽם׃H9038 · hemthem
Cross-references
Deuteronomy 9:5Not for thy righteousness, or for the uprightness of thine heart, dost thou go to possess their land: but for the wickedness of these nations the LORD thy God doth drive them out from before thee, and that he may perform the word which the LORD sware unto thy fathers, Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob.Leviticus 18:24Defile not ye yourselves in any of these things: for in all these the nations are defiled which I cast out before you:Leviticus 18:3After 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.Leviticus 18:30Therefore shall ye keep mine ordinance, that [ye] commit not [any one] of these abominable customs, which were committed before you, and that ye defile not yourselves therein: I [am] the LORD your God.Leviticus 18:27(For all these abominations have the men of the land done, which [were] before you, and the land is defiled;)Deuteronomy 12:30-31Take heed to thyself that thou be not snared by following them, after that they be destroyed from before thee; and that thou inquire not after their gods, saying, How did these nations serve their gods? even so will I do likewise.Zechariah 11:8Three shepherds also I cut off in one month; and my soul lothed them, and their soul also abhorred me.Psalm 78:59When God heard [this], he was wroth, and greatly abhorred Israel:Jeremiah 10:1-2Hear ye the word which the LORD speaketh unto you, O house of Israel:
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