Leviticus 20:23

Revised Standard Version (RSV-CI)

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

Cross References

Psalm 78:59

When God heard, he was full of wrath, and he utterly rejected Israel.

Leviticus 18:2

“Say to the people of Israel, I am the Lord your God.

Leviticus 18:24

“Do not defile yourselves by any of these things, for by all these the nations I am casting out before you defiled themselves;

Leviticus 18:25

and the land became defiled, so that I punished its iniquity, and the land vomited out its inhabitants.

Leviticus 18:27

(for all of these abominations the men of the land did, who were before you, so that the land became defiled);

Leviticus 18:3

You shall not do as they do in the land of Egypt, where you dwelt, and you shall not do as they do in the land of Canaan, to which I am bringing you. You shall not walk in their statutes.

Leviticus 18:30

So keep my charge never to practice any of these abominable customs which were practiced before you, and never to defile yourselves by them: I am the Lord your God.”

Zechariah 11:8

In one month I destroyed the three shepherds. But I became impatient with them, and they also detested me.

Deuteronomy 9:5

Not because of your righteousness or the uprightness of your heart are you going in to possess their land; but because of the wickedness of these nations the Lord your God is driving them out from before you, and that he may confirm the word which the Lord swore to your fathers, to Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob.