Leviticus 20:23Catholic Public Domain VersionDo 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. See the chapter |
For it is not because of your justices or the uprightness of your heart that you will enter, so that you may possess their lands. Instead, it is because they have acted wickedly that they are destroyed upon your arrival, and so that the Lord may accomplish his word, which he promised under oath to your fathers, Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob.