Leviticus 18:24 - Easy To Read Version

²⁴ “Don’t make yourself unclean [331] with any of those wrong things! I am throwing nations out of their countries and giving their land to you! Why? Because those people did those terrible sins!

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

²⁴ Defile not ye yourselves in any of these things: for in all these the nations are defiled which I cast out before you:

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

²⁴ Do not defile yourselves in any of these ways, for in all these things the nations are defiled which I am casting out before you.

American Standard Version (1901)

²⁴ Defile not ye yourselves in any of these things: for in all these the nations are defiled which I cast out from before you;

Common English Bible

²⁴ Do not make yourselves unclean in any of these ways because that is how the nations that I am throwing out before you became unclean.

Catholic Public Domain Version

²⁴ Do not pollute yourselves with any of these things, by which all of the nations, which I will cast out in your sight, have been contaminated

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

²⁴ Defile not yourselves with any of these things with which all the nations have been defiled, which I will cast out before you,

Leviticus 18:24 Tagairtí Cros

Genesis 15:16

After four generations your people will come to this land again. At that time, your people will defeat the Amorite people. I will use your people to punish the Amorites living here. This will be in the future, because the Amorite people are not yet evil enough to punish.”

2 Chronicles 33:2

Manasseh did the things that the Lord said were wrong. He followed the terrible and sinful ways of the nations that the Lord had forced out of the land before the people of Israel.

Ezra 9:1

After we finished all these things, the leaders of the people of Israel came to me. They said, “Ezra, the people of Israel have not kept themselves separate from the other people living around us. And the priests and the Levites have not kept themselves separate. The people of Israel are being influenced by the very bad things done by the Canaanite people, the Hittite people, the Perizzite people, the Jebusite people, the Ammonite people, the Moabite people, the people from Egypt, and the Amorite people.

Psalm 106:39

So God’s people became dirty with the sins of those other people.\par God’s people were unfaithful to their God\par and did the things those other people did.\par

Jeremiah 44:4

I sent my prophets to those people again and again. Those prophets were my servants. Those prophets spoke my message and said to the people, ‘Don’t do this terrible thing. I hate for you to worship idols.’

Ezekiel 36:17

“Son of man, {\cf2\super [279]} the family of Israel lived in their own country. But they made that land filthy by the bad things they did. To me, they were like a woman that becomes unclean {\cf2\super [280]} because of her monthly time of bleeding.

Leviticus 18:3

In the past, you lived in Egypt. You must not do the things that were done in that country! I am leading you to Canaan. You must not do the things that are done in that country! Don’t follow their customs.

Leviticus 18:30

Other people have done those terrible sins. But you must obey my laws! You must not do any of those terrible sins! Don’t make yourself filthy with those terrible sins! I am the Lord your God.”

Numbers 35:34

I am the Lord! I will be living in your country with the people of Israel. I will be living there, so don’t make it unclean [391] {with the blood of innocent people}.”

1 Corinthians 3:17

If any person destroys God’s temple, then God will destroy that person. Why? Because God’s temple is holy. {\cf2\super [20]} You yourselves are God’s temple.

Deuteronomy 12:31

Don’t do that to the Lord your God! {Don’t worship God like that! Why?} Because those people do all kinds of bad things that the Lord hates. They even burn their children as sacrifices to their gods!

Deuteronomy 18:12

The Lord your God hates people doing those things. That is why he is forcing those other nations out of this country for you.

Deuteronomy 9:4

“The Lord your God will force those nations out for you. But don’t say to yourselves, ‘The Lord brought us to live in this land because we are such good people!’ {That is not the reason!} The Lord forced those nations out because they were evil—{not because you were good}.

Deuteronomy 9:5

You are going in to take their land, but not because you are good and live right. You are going in, and the Lord your God is forcing those people out because of the evil way they lived. And the Lord wants to keep the promise he made to your ancestors [57] —Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob.

Judges 20:10

We will choose ten men from every 100 from all the family groups of Israel. And we will choose 100 men from every 1,000. We will choose 1,000 men from every 10,000. Those men we have chosen will get supplies for the army. Then the army will go to the city of Gibeah in the area of Benjamin. The army will punish those people for the terrible thing they did among the people of Israel.”

Judges 20:5

But during the night the leaders of the city of Gibeah came to the house where I was staying. They surrounded the house, and they wanted to kill me. They raped my woman servant, and she died.

Judges 20:6

So I took my woman servant and cut her into pieces. Then I sent one piece to each of the family groups of Israel. I sent the 12 pieces to the lands we have received. I did that because the people of Benjamin have done this terrible thing in Israel.