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Leviticus 20:23
“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.”
Verse in context — Leviticus 20
If a man takes his brother's wife, it is an impurity: he has uncovered his brother's nakedness; they shall be childless.
You shall therefore keep all my statutes, and all my ordinances, and do them; that the land, where I am bringing you to dwell, may not vomit you out.
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.
But I have said to you, "You shall inherit their land, and I will give it to you to possess it, a land flowing with milk and honey." I am Yahweh your God, who has separated you from the peoples.
You shall therefore make a distinction between the clean animal and the unclean, and between the unclean fowl and the clean: and you shall not make yourselves abominable by animal, or by bird, or by anything with which the ground teems, which I have separated from you as unclean for you.
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