Leviticus 18:24 - Tree of Life Version24 “Do not defile yourselves in any of these things, for in all of these ways the nations which I am casting out before you were defiled. 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 had been completed, the leaders approached me to say: “The people of Israel, the kohanim and the Levites have not separated themselves from the peoples of the lands who practice detestable things just like the Canaanites, the Hittites, the Perizzites, the Jebusites, the Ammonites, the Moabites, the Egyptians and the Amorites.
It is not by your righteousness or the uprightness of your heart that you are going in to possess their land. Rather, because of the wickedness of these nations, Adonai your God is driving them out from before you, and in order to keep the word Adonai swore to your fathers—to Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob.
We will take ten men of a hundred throughout the tribes of Israel, and a hundred of a thousand, and a thousand out of ten thousand, to supply provisions for the troops, so that when they come to Gibeah of Benjamin, they may do to them according to all the disgrace that they have committed in Israel.”