Leviticus 18:24 - Revised Standard Version (RSV-CI)24 “Do not defile yourselves by any of these things, for by all these the nations I am casting out before you defiled themselves; Se kapitletFlere versionerKing James Version (Oxford) 176924 Defile not ye yourselves in any of these things: for in all these the nations are defiled which I cast out before you: Se kapitletAmplified Bible - Classic Edition24 Do not defile yourselves in any of these ways, for in all these things the nations are defiled which I am casting out before you. Se kapitletAmerican Standard Version (1901)24 Defile not ye yourselves in any of these things: for in all these the nations are defiled which I cast out from before you; Se kapitletCommon English Bible24 Do not make yourselves unclean in any of these ways because that is how the nations that I am throwing out before you became unclean. Se kapitletCatholic Public Domain Version24 Do not pollute yourselves with any of these things, by which all of the nations, which I will cast out in your sight, have been contaminated Se kapitlet |
After these things had been done, the officials approached me and said, “The people of Israel and the priests and the Levites have not separated themselves from the peoples of the lands with their abominations, from the Canaanites, the Hittites, the Perizzites, the Jebusites, the Ammonites, the Moabites, the Egyptians, and the Amorites.
Not because of your righteousness or the uprightness of your heart are you going in to possess their land; but because of the wickedness of these nations the Lord your God is driving them out from before you, and that he may confirm the word which the Lord swore to your fathers, to Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob.