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 18:24-30
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, 25and the eland became unclean, so that I punished its iniquity, and the land fvomited out its inhabitants. 26But gyou shall keep my statutes and my rules and do none of these abominations, either the hnative 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 iSo keep my charge never to practice jany of these abominable customs that were practiced before you, and never to make yourselves unclean by them: kI am the Lord your God.”Deuteronomy 12:30-31
30take care lthat 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 mYou shall not worship the Lord your God in that way, for every nabominable thing that the Lord hates they have done for their gods, for othey even burn their sons and their daughters in the fire to their gods.Deuteronomy 18:9
Abominable Practices
9“When you come into the land that the Lord your God is giving you, pyou shall not learn to follow the abominable practices of those nations.2 Chronicles 33:2
2And he did what was evil in the sight of the Lord, according to qthe abominations of the nations whom the Lord drove out before the people of Israel.Psalms 106:35
35but they rmixed with the nationsand learned to do as they did.
Romans 2:17-25
17But if you call yourself a Jew and srely on the law and boast in God 18and know his will and approve what is excellent, because you are instructed from the law; 19and if you are sure that you yourself are ta guide to the blind, a light to those who are in darkness, 20an instructor of the foolish, a teacher of children, having in the law uthe embodiment of vknowledge and truth— 21 wyou then who teach others, do you not teach yourself? While you preach against stealing, do you steal? 22You who say that one must not commit adultery, do you commit adultery? You who abhor idols, do you xrob temples? 23You who yboast in the law zdishonor God by breaking the law. 24For, aaas it is written, “The name of God is blasphemed abamong the Gentiles because of you.”25For circumcision indeed is of value acif you obey the law, but if you break the law, your circumcision becomes uncircumcision.
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