Leviticus 18:30 - New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

³⁰ So keep my charge not to commit any of these abominations that were done before you and not to defile yourselves by them: I am the Lord your God.”

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

³⁰ Therefore 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.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

³⁰ So keep My charge: do not practice any of these abominable customs which were practiced before you and defile yourselves by them. I am the Lord your God.

American Standard Version (1901)

³⁰ Therefore shall ye keep my charge, that ye practise not any of these abominable customs, which were practised before you, and that ye defile not yourselves therein: I am Jehovah your God.

Common English Bible

³⁰ You must keep my requirement of not doing any of the detestable practices that were done before you arrived so that you don’t make yourselves unclean by them; I am the LORD your God.

Catholic Public Domain Version

³⁰ Keep my commandments. Do not be willing to do the things which have been done by those who were before you, and do not be polluted by these things. I am the Lord your God.

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

³⁰ Keep my commandments. Do not the things which they have done, that have been before you: and be not defiled therein. I am the Lord your God.

Leviticus 18:30 Cross References

1 Kings 14:24

there were also illicit priests in the land. They committed all the abominations of the nations that the Lord had driven out before the people of Israel.

1 Kings 21:26

He acted most abominably in going after idols, as the Amorites had done, whom the Lord had driven out before the Israelites.)

Ezra 9:1

After these things had been done, the officials approached me and said, “The people of Israel, 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.

Leviticus 18:29

For whoever commits any of these abominations shall be cut off from their people.

Leviticus 19:1

The Lord spoke to Moses, saying:

Leviticus 20:23

You shall not follow the practices of the nation that I am driving out before you. Because they did all these things, I abhorred them.

Leviticus 22:9

They shall keep my charge, so that they may not incur guilt and die because of it for having profaned them: I am the Lord; I sanctify them.

Deuteronomy 11:1

“You shall love the Lord your God, therefore, and keep his charge, his decrees, his ordinances, and his commandments always.

Deuteronomy 12:30

take care that you are not snared into imitating them, after they have been destroyed before you; do not inquire concerning their gods, saying, ‘How did these nations serve their gods? I also want to do the same.’

Deuteronomy 12:31

You must not do the same for the Lord your God, because every abhorrent thing that the Lord hates they have done for their gods. They would even burn their sons and their daughters in the fire to their gods.

Judges 20:6

Then I took my concubine and cut her into pieces and sent her throughout the whole extent of Israel’s territory, for they have committed a vile outrage in Israel.