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.


In Context

20 And if a man shall lie with his uncle's wife, he hath uncovered his uncle's nakedness: they shall bear their sin; they shall die childless.

21 And if a man shall take his brother's wife, it is impurity: he hath uncovered his brother's nakedness; they shall be childless.

22 Ye shall therefore keep all my statutes, and all my judgments, and do them: that the land, whither I bring you to dwell therein, vomit you not out.

23 And 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.

24 But I have said unto you, Ye shall inherit their land, and I will give it unto you to possess it, a land flowing with milk and honey: I am the LORD your God, which have separated you from the peoples.

25 Ye shall therefore separate between the clean beast and the unclean, and between the unclean fowl and the clean: and ye shall not make your souls abominable by beast, or by fowl, or by any thing wherewith the ground teemeth, which I have separated from you as 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 Douay-Rheims Version of the Holy Bible

20:23Walk 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.

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 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.