Leviticus 18:24 - Revised Version with Apocrypha 189524 Defile not ye yourselves in any of these things: for in all these the nations are defiled which I cast out from before you: Féach an chaibidilTuilleadh leaganachaKing James Version (Oxford) 176924 Defile not ye yourselves in any of these things: for in all these the nations are defiled which I cast out before you: Féach an chaibidilAmplified Bible - Classic Edition24 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. Féach an chaibidilAmerican 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; Féach an chaibidilCommon English Bible24 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. Féach an chaibidilCatholic Public Domain Version24 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 Féach an chaibidil |
Now when these things were done, the princes drew near unto me, saying, The people of Israel, and the priests and the Levites, have not separated themselves from the peoples of the lands, doing according to their abominations, even of the Canaanites, the Hittites, the Perizzites, the Jebusites, the Ammonites, the Moabites, the Egyptians, and the Amorites.
Not for thy righteousness, or for the uprightness of thine heart, dost thou go in to possess their land: but for the wickedness of these nations the LORD thy God doth drive them out from before thee, and that he may establish the word which the LORD sware unto thy fathers, to Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob.