Leviticus 20:23
King James Version (KJV)
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.
In context
21 And if a man shall take his brother’s wife, it is an unclean thing: he hath uncovered his brother’s nakedness; they shall be childless.
22 Ye shall therefore keep all my statutes, and all my judgments, and do them: that the land, whither I bring you to dwell therein, spue you not out.
23 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.
24 But I have said unto you, Ye shall inherit their land, and I will give it unto you to possess it, a land that floweth with milk and honey: I am the LORD your God, which have separated you from other people.
25 Ye shall therefore put difference between clean beasts and unclean, and between unclean fowls and clean: and ye shall not make your souls abominable by beast, or by fowl, or by any manner of living thing that creepeth on the ground, which I have separated from you as unclean.
Leviticus 20:23 in every translation
- KJV King James 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.
- WEB World English Bible
- 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.
- BSB Berean Standard Bible
- You must not follow the statutes of the nations I am driving out before you. Because they did all these things, I abhorred them.
- ASV 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.
- YLT Young's Literal Translation
- and ye walk not in the statutes of the nation which I am sending away from before you, for all these they have done, and I am wearied with them;
- DBY Darby Translation
- And ye shall not walk in the customs of the nation which I am casting out before you; for all these things have they done, and they became an abomination to me.
- WBS Webster Bible
- And ye shall not walk in the manners of the nations which I cast out before you: for they committed all these things, and therefore I abhorred them.