Leviticus 20:23

New International Version

You must not live according to the customs of the nations I am going to drive out before you. Because they did all these things, I abhorred them.

Cross References

Psalm 78:59

When God heard them, he was furious; he rejected Israel completely.

Leviticus 18:2

“Speak to the Israelites and say to them: ‘I am the Lord your God.

Leviticus 18:24

“ ‘Do not defile yourselves in any of these ways, because this is how the nations that I am going to drive out before you became defiled.

Leviticus 18:25

Even the land was defiled; so I punished it for its sin, and the land vomited out its inhabitants.

Leviticus 18:27

for all these things were done by the people who lived in the land before you, and the land became defiled.

Leviticus 18:3

You must not do as they do in Egypt, where you used to live, and you must not do as they do in the land of Canaan, where I am bringing you. Do not follow their practices.

Leviticus 18:30

Keep my requirements and do not follow any of the detestable customs that were practiced before you came and do not defile yourselves with them. I am the Lord your God.’ ”

Zechariah 11:8

In one month I got rid of the three shepherds. The flock detested me, and I grew weary of them

Deuteronomy 9:5

It is not because of your righteousness or your integrity that you are going in to take possession of their land; but on account of the wickedness of these nations, the Lord your God will drive them out before you, to accomplish what he swore to your fathers, to Abraham, Isaac and Jacob.