Leviticus 18:3
3 aYou shall not do as they do in the land of Egypt, where you lived, and byou shall not do as they do in the land of Canaan, to which I am bringing you. You shall not walk in their statutes.Leviticus 18:24
24 c“Do not make yourselves unclean by any of these things, dfor by all these the nations I am driving out before you have become unclean,Leviticus 18:30
30 eSo keep my charge never to practice fany of these abominable customs that were practiced before you, and never to make yourselves unclean by them: gI am the Lord your God.”Deuteronomy 12:30-31
30take care hthat you be not ensnared to follow them, after they have been destroyed before you, and that you do not inquire about their gods, saying, ‘How did these nations serve their gods?—that I also may do the same.’ 31 iYou shall not worship the Lord your God in that way, for every jabominable thing that the Lord hates they have done for their gods, for kthey even burn their sons and their daughters in the fire to their gods.Jeremiah 10:1-2
Idols and the Living God
1Hear the word that the Lord speaks to you, O house of Israel. 2Thus says the Lord:“Learn not the way of the nations,
nor be dismayed at the signs of the heavens
because the nations are dismayed at them,
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