Catholic Public Domain Version
"Do not be willing to walk by the ordinances of the nations, which I will expel before you. For they have done all these things, and so I abominate them. "
— Leviticus 20:23, Catholic Public Domain 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.”
“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. ”
“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.”
If any man has had sexual intercourse with the wife of his paternal or maternal uncle, and he has uncovered the shame of his close relative, both shall bear their sin. They shall die without children.
Whoever will have married his brother’s wife has done an unlawful thing; he has uncovered his brother’s nakedness. They shall be without children.
Observe my laws as well as my judgments, and act according to them, lest the land, into which you will enter and live, may vomit you out, too.
Do not be willing to walk by the ordinances of the nations, which I will expel before you. For they have done all these things, and so I abominate them.
But I say to you: Possess their land, which I will give to you as an inheritance, a land flowing with milk and honey. I am the Lord your God, who has separated you from the other peoples.
Therefore, you must also separate the clean animals from the unclean, and the clean birds from the unclean. Do not pollute your souls with cattle, or birds, or anything that moves upon the earth, and which I have shown you to be unclean.
You shall be holy unto me, because I, the Lord, am holy, and I have separated you from the other peoples, so that you would be mine.