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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.
Leviticus 20:23 · King James Version

In other versions

  • 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.

    ASV

  • And do not keep the rules of the nations which I am driving out before you; for they did all these things, and for that reason my soul was turned against them.

    BBE

  • And ye shall not walk in the customs of the nation which I am casting out before you; for all these things have they done, and they became an abomination to me.

    DBY

  • 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.

    WEB

  • 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;

    YLT

  • And all of 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.

    ENG

  • And ye shall not walk in the manners of the nations which I cast out before you: for they committed all these things, and therefore I abhorred them.

    WBT

  • You must not follow the statutes of the nations I am driving out before you. Because they did all these things, I abhorred them.

    BSB

In context

21And 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.

22Ye 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.

23And 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.

24But 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.

25Ye 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.

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