Leviticus 18:24

Modern English Version

Do not defile yourselves in any of these ways, for in these practices the nations I am casting out before you have defiled themselves.

Cross References

Genesis 15:16

In the fourth generation, your descendants will return here, for the iniquity of the Amorites is not yet complete.”

1 Kings 9:7

then I will cut Israel out of the land which I have given them, and I will cast this house, which I have consecrated for My name, out of My sight, and Israel shall be a proverb and a byword among all people.

2 Chronicles 33:2

But he did evil in the sight of the Lord, according to the abominations of the nations whom the Lord previously cast out before the Israelites.

Ezra 9:1

Now when these things were done, the leaders contacted me, saying, “The people of Israel, the priests, and the Levites have not separated themselves from the people of the lands. They practice the abominations of the Canaanites, the Hittites, the Perizzites, the Jebusites, the Ammonites, the Moabites, the Egyptians, and the Amorites.

Psalm 106:39

Thus were they defiled by their works and played the whore by their deeds.

Jeremiah 44:4

However, I sent to you all My servants the prophets, rising early and sending them, saying, “Oh, do not do this abominable thing that I hate.”

Ezekiel 36:17

Son of man, when the house of Israel lived in their own land, they defiled it by their ways and their deeds. Their way was before Me as the uncleanness of a woman in her impurity.

Leviticus 18:3

After the practices of the land of Egypt, from where you lived, you shall not follow, and after the practices of the land of Canaan, to where I will bring you, you shall not follow; nor shall you walk in their ordinances.

Leviticus 18:30

Therefore you shall keep My ordinances, that you do not commit any one of these abominable customs which were committed before you, so that you do not defile yourselves by them: I am the Lord your God.

Numbers 35:34

So do not defile the land which you are dwelling in, where I am residing, because I the Lord am residing among the Israelites.

1 Corinthians 3:17

If anyone defiles the temple of God, God will destroy him. For the temple of God is holy. And you are His temple.

Deuteronomy 12:31

You shall not do so to the Lord your God, for every abomination to the Lord, which He hates, they have done to their gods. They have even burned their sons and their daughters in the fire to their gods.

Deuteronomy 18:12

For all that do these things are an abomination to the Lord, and because of these abominations the Lord your God will drive them out from before you.

Deuteronomy 9:4

Do not say in your heart, after the Lord your God has driven them out before you, “On account of my righteousness the Lord has brought me in to possess this land,” but it is because of the wickedness of these nations the Lord is driving them out before you.

Deuteronomy 9:5

It is not because of your righteousness or the uprightness of your heart that you enter to possess their land, but because of the wickedness of these nations that the Lord your God drives them out before you, and that He may fulfill the word which the Lord swore to your fathers, Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob.

Judges 20:10

We will take ten men out of every hundred, from every tribe of Israel, a hundred from every thousand, and a thousand from every ten thousand, to bring provisions for the troops. Then when they come to Gibeah in Benjamin, they may repay them for all the evil that they committed in Israel.”

Judges 20:5

Then the leaders of Gibeah rose up against me. At night they surrounded the house where I was staying. They wanted to kill me; instead they ravished my concubine so that she died.

Judges 20:6

I seized my concubine, cut her into pieces, and sent her throughout all the territory of Israel, because they committed an infamous and disgraceful act in Israel.