Leviticus 20:23

New Century Version

I am forcing out ahead of you the people who live there. Because they did all these sins, I have hated them. Do not live the way those people lived.

Cross References

Deuteronomy 9:5

You are going in to take the land, not because you are good and honest, but because these nations are evil. That is why the Lord your God will force them out ahead of you, to keep his promise to your ancestors, to Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob.

Leviticus 18:24

“ ‘Don’t make yourself unclean by any of these wrong things. I am forcing nations out of their countries because they did these sins, and I am giving their land to you.

Leviticus 18:30

Keep my command not to do these hateful sins that were done by the people who lived in the land before you. Don’t make yourself unclean by doing them. I am the Lord your God.’ ”

Leviticus 18:3

In the past you lived in Egypt, but you must not do what was done in that country. And you must not do as they do in the land of Canaan, where I am bringing you. Do not follow their customs.

Leviticus 18:27

The people who lived in the land before you did all these hateful things and made the land unclean.

Zechariah 11:8

In one month I got rid of three shepherds. The flock did not pay attention to me, and I got impatient with them.

Psalm 78:59

When God heard them, he became very angry and rejected the people of Israel completely.

Leviticus 18:25

The land has become unclean, and I punished it for its sins, so the land is throwing out those people who live there.

Leviticus 18:2

“Tell the people of Israel: ‘I am the Lord your God.