23Walk not after the laws of the nations, which I will cast out before you. For they have done all these things, and therefore I abhorred them.


In Context

20 If any man lie with the wife of his uncle by the father, or of his uncle by the mother, and uncover the shame of his near akin, both shall bear their sin: they shall die without children.

21 He that marrieth his brother's wife, doth an unlawful thing, he hath uncovered his brother's nakedness: they shall be without children.

22 Keep my laws and my judgments, and do them: lest the land into which you are to enter to dwell therein, vomit you also out.

23 Walk not after the laws of the nations, which I will cast out before you. For they have done all these things, and therefore I abhorred them.

24 But to you I say: Possess their land which I will give you for an inheritance, a land flowing with milk and honey. I am the Lord your God, who have separated you from other people.

25 Therefore do you also separate the clean beast from the unclean, and the clean fowl from the unclean: defile not your souls with beasts, or birds, or any things that move on the earth, and which I have shewn you to be unclean.

Leviticus 20:23 in Other Translations

The King James Version of the Holy Bible

20:23And 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.

The New International Version of the Holy Bible

20:23You must not live according to the customs of the nations I am going to drive out before you. Because they did all these things, I abhorred them.

The American Standard Version of the Holy Bible

20:23And 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.

The Darby Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

20:23And 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.

The English Revised Version of the Holy Bible

20:23And 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.

The Webster Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

20:23And 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.

The World English Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

20:23You 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.

The Young's Literal Translation of the Holy Bible

20:23and 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;

The American King James Version of the Holy Bible

20:23And you 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.