American Standard Version
"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. "
— Leviticus 20:23, American Standard Version
“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.”
“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 abhorred them.”
“You must not walk in the statutes of the nation which I am about to drive out before you, because they have done all these things and I am filled with disgust against them.”
“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.”
“And do not keep the rules of the nations which I am driving out before you; for they did all these things, and for that reason my soul was turned against them.”
“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.”
And if a man shall lie with his uncle’s wife, he hath uncovered his uncle’s nakedness: they shall bear their sin; they shall die childless.
And if a man shall take his brother’s wife, it is impurity: he hath uncovered his brother’s nakedness; they shall be childless.
Ye shall therefore keep all my statutes, and all mine ordinances, and do them; that the land, whither I bring you to dwell therein, vomit you not out.
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.
But I have said unto you, Ye shall inherit their land, and I will give it unto you to possess it, a land flowing with milk and honey: I am Jehovah your God, who hath separated you from the peoples.
Ye shall therefore make a distinction between the clean beast and the unclean, and between the unclean fowl and the clean: and ye shall not make your souls abominable by beast, or by bird, or by anything wherewith the ground teemeth, which I have separated from you as unclean.
And ye shall be holy unto me: for I, Jehovah, am holy, and have set you apart from the peoples, that ye should be mine.