Leviticus 18:24
BSB · Public Domain (CC0)“Do not defile yourselves by any of these practices, for by all these things the nations I am driving out before you have defiled themselves.”
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“Do not defile yourselves by any of these practices, for by all these things the nations I am driving out before you have defiled themselves.”
Berean Standard Bible · Public Domain (CC0)“Defile not ye yourselves in any of these things: for in all these the nations are defiled which I cast out before you:”
King James Version · Public Domain“Defile not ye yourselves in any of these things: for in all these the nations are defiled which I cast out from before you;”
American Standard Version · Public Domain“`Ye are not defiled with all these, for with all these have the nations been defiled which I am sending away from before you;”
Young's Literal Translation · Public DomainOther passages that echo Leviticus 18:24 — 17 related verses from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.
- Leviticus 18:3You must not follow the practices of the land of Egypt, where you used to live, and you must not follow the practices of the land of Canaan, into which I am bringing you. You must not walk in their customs.
- Leviticus 18:6None of you are to approach any close relative to have sexual relations. I am the LORD.
- Leviticus 18:30You must keep My charge not to practice any of the abominable customs that were practiced before you, so that you do not defile yourselves by them. I am the LORD your God.”
- Leviticus 20:22You are therefore to keep all My statutes and ordinances, so that the land where I am bringing you to live will not vomit you out.
- Deuteronomy 9:4When the LORD your God has driven them out before you, do not say in your heart, “Because of my righteousness the LORD has brought me in to possess this land.” Rather, the LORD is driving out these nations before you because of their wickedness.
- Deuteronomy 9:5It is not because of your righteousness or uprightness of heart that you are going in to possess their land, but it is because of their wickedness that the LORD your God is driving out these nations before you, to keep the promise He swore to your fathers, to Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob.
- Deuteronomy 12:31You must not worship the LORD your God in this way, because they practice for their gods every abomination which the LORD hates. They even burn their sons and daughters in the fire as sacrifices to their gods.
- Deuteronomy 18:12For whoever does these things is detestable to the LORD. And because of these detestable things, the LORD your God is driving out the nations before you.
- Judges 20:5And during the night, the men of Gibeah rose up against me and surrounded the house. They intended to kill me, but they abused my concubine, and she died.
- Judges 20:6Then I took my concubine, cut her into pieces, and sent her throughout the land of Israel’s inheritance, because they had committed a lewd and disgraceful act in Israel.
- Judges 20:10We will take ten men out of every hundred from all the tribes of Israel, and a hundred out of every thousand, and a thousand out of every ten thousand, to supply provisions for the army when they go to Gibeah in Benjamin to punish them for the atrocity they have committed in Israel.”
- 2 Chronicles 33:2And he did evil in the sight of the LORD by following the abominations of the nations that the LORD had driven out before the Israelites.
- Jeremiah 44:4Yet I sent you all My servants the prophets again and again, saying: ‘Do not do this detestable thing that I hate.’
- Ezekiel 36:17“Son of man, when the people of Israel lived in their land, they defiled it by their own ways and deeds. Their behavior before Me was like the uncleanness of a woman’s impurity.
- Matthew 15:18But the things that come out of the mouth come from the heart, and these things defile a man.
- Mark 7:10For Moses said, ‘Honor your father and your mother’ and ‘Anyone who curses his father or mother must be put to death.’
- 1 Corinthians 3:17If anyone destroys God’s temple, God will destroy him; for God’s temple is holy, and you are that temple.
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