But in the fourth generation, they will return here. For the iniquities of the Amorites are not yet completed, even to this present time."
Leviticus 18:24 - Catholic Public Domain Version 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 更多版本King James Version (Oxford) 1769 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 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) 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 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. Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version Defile not yourselves with any of these things with which all the nations have been defiled, which I will cast out before you, English Standard Version 2016 “Do not make yourselves unclean by any of these things, for by all these the nations I am driving out before you have become unclean, |
But in the fourth generation, they will return here. For the iniquities of the Amorites are not yet completed, even to this present time."
then I will take away Israel from the face of the land, which I have given to them. And the temple, which I have sanctified to my name, I will cast out from my sight. And Israel will be a proverb and a parable among all the peoples.
But he did evil before the Lord, in accord with all the abominations of the nations which the Lord overturned before the sons of Israel.
Then, after these things were completed, the leaders came to me, saying: "The people of Israel, the priests, and the Levites, have not been separated from the peoples of the lands and from their abominations, especially those of the Canaanites, and Hittites, and Perizzites, and Jebusites, and Ammonites, and Moabites, and Egyptians, and Amorites.
And they became few, and they were afflicted by the tribulation of evils and of sorrow.
And I sent to you all my servants, the prophets, rising in the night, and sending, and saying: 'Do not choose to do this abominable word, which I hate.'
"Son of man, the house of Israel lived on their own soil, and they defiled it with their ways and with their intentions. Their way, in my sight, became like the uncleanness of a menstruous woman.
You shall not act according to the custom of the land of Egypt, in which you have lived; nor shall you behave according to the habit of the region of Canaan, into which I will lead you; neither shall you walk in their ordinances.
Keep my commandments. Do not be willing to do the things which have been done by those who were before you, and do not be polluted by these things. I am the Lord your God.
And so shall your possession be cleansed, while I myself am abiding with you. For I am the Lord, who lives among the sons of Israel."
But if anyone violates the Temple of God, God will destroy him. For the Temple of God is holy, and you are that Temple.
You shall not act in like manner toward the Lord your God. For they have done to their gods all the abominations that the Lord spurns, offering their sons and daughters, and burning them with fire.
For the Lord abominates all these things. And, because of these wicked ways, he will destroy them at your arrival.
You should not say in your heart, when the Lord your God will have destroyed them in your sight: 'It is because of my justice that the Lord led me in, so that I might possess this land, while these nations have been destroyed because of their impiety.'
For it is not because of your justices or the uprightness of your heart that you will enter, so that you may possess their lands. Instead, it is because they have acted wickedly that they are destroyed upon your arrival, and so that the Lord may accomplish his word, which he promised under oath to your fathers, Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob.
We shall select ten men out of one hundred from all the tribes of Israel, and one hundred out of one thousand, and one thousand out of ten thousand, so that they may transport supplies for the army, and so that we will be able to fight against Gibeah of Benjamin, and to repay it for its crime as it deserves."
And behold, the men of that city, at night, surrounded the house in which I was staying, intending to kill me. And they abused my wife with such an incredible fury of lust that in the end she died.
And taking her up, I cut her into pieces, and I sent the parts into all the borders of your possession. For never before was such a nefarious crime, and so great a sin, committed in Israel.