When God heard, he was full of wrath, and he utterly rejected Israel.
Leviticus 20:23 - New Revised Standard Version You shall not follow the practices of the nation that I am driving out before you. Because they did all these things, I abhorred them. Tuilleadh leaganachaKing James Version (Oxford) 1769 And ye shall not walk in the manners of the nation, which I cast out before you: for they committed all these things, and therefore I abhorred them. Amplified Bible - Classic Edition 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 was wearied and grieved by them. American Standard Version (1901) And ye shall not walk in the customs of the nation, which I cast out before you: for they did all these things, and therefore I abhorred them. Common English Bible You must not follow the practices of the nations that I am throwing out before you, because they did all these things and I was disgusted with them. Catholic Public Domain Version Do not be willing to walk by the ordinances of the nations, which I will expel before you. For they have done all these things, and so I abominate them. Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version Walk not after the laws of the nations, which I will cast out before you. For they have done all these things: and therefore I abhorred them. |
When God heard, he was full of wrath, and he utterly rejected Israel.
Speak to the people of Israel and say to them: I am the Lord your God.
Do not defile yourselves in any of these ways, for by all these practices the nations I am casting out before you have defiled themselves.
Thus the land became defiled; and I punished it for its iniquity, and the land vomited out its inhabitants.
(for the inhabitants of the land, who were before you, committed all of these abominations, and the land became defiled);
You shall not do as they do in the land of Egypt, where you lived, and you shall not do as they do in the land of Canaan, to which I am bringing you. You shall not follow their statutes.
So keep my charge not to commit any of these abominations that were done before you, and not to defile yourselves by them: I am the Lord your God.
In one month I disposed of the three shepherds, for I had become impatient with them, and they also detested me.
It is not because of your righteousness or the uprightness of your heart that you are going in to occupy their land; but because of the wickedness of these nations the Lord your God is dispossessing them before you, in order to fulfill the promise that the Lord made on oath to your ancestors, to Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob.