Leviticus 20:23

New American Bible - revised edition

Do not conform, therefore, to the customs of the nations whom I am driving out of your way, because all these things that they have done have filled me with disgust for them.

Cross References

Psalm 78:59

God heard and grew angry; he rejected Israel completely.

Leviticus 18:2

Speak to the Israelites and tell them: I, the Lord, am your God.

Leviticus 18:24

Do not defile yourselves by any of these things, because by them the nations whom I am driving out of your way have defiled themselves.

Leviticus 18:25

And so the land has become defiled, and I have punished it for its wickedness, and the land has vomited out its inhabitants.

Leviticus 18:27

because the previous inhabitants did all these abominations and the land became defiled;

Leviticus 18:3

You shall not do as they do in the land of Egypt, where you once lived, nor shall you do as they do in the land of Canaan, where I am bringing you; do not conform to their customs.

Leviticus 18:30

Heed my charge, then, not to observe the abominable customs that have been observed before your time, and thus become impure by them. I, the Lord, am your God.

Zechariah 11:8

In a single month, I did away with the three shepherds, for I wearied of them, and they disdained me.

Deuteronomy 9:5

No, it is not because of your justice or the integrity of your heart that you are going in to take possession of their land; but it is because of their wickedness that the Lord, your God, is dispossessing these nations before you and in order to fulfill the promise he made on oath to your ancestors, Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob.