Leviticus 20:23

New King James Version

And you shall not walk in the statutes of the nation which I am casting out before you; for they commit all these things, and therefore I abhor them.

Cross References

Deuteronomy 9:5

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

Leviticus 18:24

‘Do not defile yourselves with any of these things; for by all these the nations are defiled, which I am casting out before you.

Leviticus 18:30

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

Leviticus 18:3

According to the doings of the land of Egypt, where you dwelt, you shall not do; and according to the doings of the land of Canaan, where I am bringing you, you shall not do; nor shall you walk in their ordinances.

Leviticus 18:27

(for all these abominations the men of the land have done, who were before you, and thus the land is defiled),

Zechariah 11:8

I dismissed the three shepherds in one month. My soul loathed them, and their soul also abhorred me.

Psalm 78:59

When God heard this, He was furious, And greatly abhorred Israel,

Leviticus 18:25

For the land is defiled; therefore I visit the punishment of its iniquity upon it, and the land vomits out its inhabitants.

Leviticus 18:2

“Speak to the children of Israel, and say to them: ‘I am the Lord your God.