Leviticus 18:24-30
24 a“Do not make yourselves unclean by any of these things, bfor by all these the nations I am driving out before you have become unclean, 25and the cland became unclean, so that I punished its iniquity, and the land dvomited out its inhabitants. 26But eyou shall keep my statutes and my rules and do none of these abominations, either the fnative or the stranger who sojourns among you 27(for the people of the land, who were before you, did all of these abominations, so that the land became unclean), 28lest the land vomit you out when you make it unclean, as it vomited out the nation that was before you. 29For everyone who does any of these abominations, the persons who do them shall be cut off from among their people. 30 gSo keep my charge never to practice hany of these abominable customs that were practiced before you, and never to make yourselves unclean by them: iI am the Lord your God.”Deuteronomy 12:31
31 jYou shall not worship the Lord your God in that way, for every kabominable thing that the Lord hates they have done for their gods, for lthey even burn their sons and their daughters in the fire to their gods.Deuteronomy 18:12
12 mfor whoever does these things is an abomination to the Lord. And nbecause of these abominations the Lord your God is driving them out before you.2 Chronicles 33:2
2And he did what was evil in the sight of the Lord, according to othe abominations of the nations whom the Lord drove out before the people of Israel.Ezra 9:1
Ezra Prays About Intermarriage
1After these things had been done, the officials approached me and said, “The people of Israel and the priests and the pLevites have not separated themselves from the peoples of the lands qwith their abominations, from the rCanaanites, the Hittites, the Perizzites, the Jebusites, the Ammonites, the Moabites, the Egyptians, and the Amorites.
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