Leviticus 20:23

The Scriptures 2009

‘And do not walk in the laws of the nation which I am driving out before you, for they do all these, and therefore I loathed them.

Cross References

Psalm 78:59

When Elohim heard this, He was wroth, And greatly despised Yisra’ĕl,

Leviticus 18:2

“Speak to the children of Yisra’ĕl, and say to them, ‘I am יהוה your Elohim.

Leviticus 18:24

‘Do not defile yourselves with all these, for by all these the nations are defiled, which I am driving out before you.

Leviticus 18:25

‘Thus the land became defiled, therefore I punished it for its crookedness, and the land vomited out its inhabitants.

Leviticus 18:27

because the men of the land who were before you have done all these abominations, and thus the land became defiled,

Leviticus 18:3

‘Do not do as they do in the land of Mitsrayim, where you dwelt. And do not do as they do in the land of Kena‛an, where I am bringing you, and do not walk in their laws.

Leviticus 18:30

‘And you shall guard My Charge, so as not to do any of these abominable laws which were done before you, so as not to defile yourselves by them. I am יהוה your Elohim.’ ”

Zechariah 11:8

Then I sent off the three shepherds in one month, for my being despised them, and their being also loathed me.

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 wrong of these nations that יהוה your Elohim drives them out from before you, in order to establish the word which יהוה swore to your fathers, to Aḇraham, to Yitsḥaq, and to Ya‛aqoḇ.