Leviticus 20:23

New International Reader's Version

To make room for you, I am going to drive out the nations that are in the land. You must not follow the practices of those nations. I hated those nations because they did all those things.

Cross References

Psalm 78:59

When God saw what the people were doing, he was very angry. He turned away from them completely.

Leviticus 18:2

“Speak to the Israelites. Tell them, ‘I am the Lord your God.

Leviticus 18:24

“ ‘Do not make yourselves “unclean” in any of these ways. That is how other nations became “unclean.” So I am going to drive those nations out of the land to make room for you.

Leviticus 18:25

Even their land was not “clean.” So I punished it because of its sin. The land itself threw out the people who lived there.

Leviticus 18:27

All these things were done by the people who lived in the land before you. That is how the land became “unclean.”

Leviticus 18:3

Do not do what the people of Egypt do. You used to live there. And do not do what the people of Canaan do. I am bringing you into their land. Do not follow their practices.

Leviticus 18:30

Do exactly what I require. When you arrive in Canaan, do not follow any of the practices of its people. I hate the things they do. Do not make yourselves “unclean” by doing them. I am the Lord your God.’ ”

Zechariah 11:8

In one month I got rid of three worthless shepherds. The sheep hated me, and I got tired of them.

Deuteronomy 9:5

You are not going in to take over their land because you have done what is right or honest. It’s because those nations are so evil. That’s why the Lord your God will drive them out to make room for you. He will do what he said he would do. He made a promise to your fathers, to Abraham, Isaac and Jacob.