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.


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 an unclean thing: 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, spue you not out.

23 And 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.

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

25 Ye shall therefore put difference between clean beasts and unclean, and between unclean fowls and clean: and ye shall not make your souls abominable by beast, or by fowl, or by any manner of living thing that creepeth on the ground, which I have separated from you as unclean.

Leviticus 20:23 in Other Translations

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 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.