Leviticus 20:23 - Revised Version with Apocrypha 1895

²³ 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.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

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.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

²³ 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 was wearied and grieved by them.

American Standard Version (1901)

²³ 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.

Common English Bible

²³ You must not follow the practices of the nations that I am throwing out before you, because they did all these things and I was disgusted with them.

Catholic Public Domain Version

²³ Do not be willing to walk by the ordinances of the nations, which I will expel before you. For they have done all these things, and so I abominate them.

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

²³ Walk not after the laws of the nations, which I will cast out before you. For they have done all these things: and therefore I abhorred them.

Leviticus 20:23 Cross References

Psalm 78:59

When God heard this, he was wroth, And greatly abhorred Israel:

Leviticus 18:2

Speak unto the children of Israel, and say unto them, I am the LORD your God.

Leviticus 18:24

Defile not ye yourselves in any of these things: for in all these the nations are defiled which I cast out from before you:

Leviticus 18:25

And the land is defiled: therefore I do visit the iniquity thereof upon it, and the land vomiteth out her inhabitants.

Leviticus 18:27

(for all these abominations have the men of the land done, which were before you, and the land is defiled;)

Leviticus 18:3

After 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 statutes.

Leviticus 18:30

Therefore shall ye keep my charge, that ye do not any of these abominable customs, which were done before you, and that ye defile not yourselves therein: I am the LORD your God.

Zechariah 11:8

And I cut off the three shepherds in one month; for my soul was weary of them, and their soul also loathed me.

Deuteronomy 9:5

Not for thy righteousness, or for the uprightness of thine heart, dost thou go in 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 establish the word which the LORD sware unto thy fathers, to Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob.