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.


In Context

20 If a man lies with his uncle's wife, he has uncovered his uncle's nakedness: they shall bear their sin; they shall die childless.

21 |'If a man takes his brother's wife, it is an impurity: he has uncovered his brother's nakedness; they shall be childless.

22 |'You shall therefore keep all my statutes, and all my ordinances, and do them; that the land, where I am bringing you to dwell, may not vomit you out.

23 You 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.

24 But I have said to you, |You shall inherit their land, and I will give it to you to possess it, a land flowing with milk and honey.| I am Yahweh your God, who has separated you from the peoples.

25 |'You shall therefore make a distinction between the clean animal and the unclean, and between the unclean fowl and the clean: and you shall not make yourselves abominable by animal, or by bird, or by anything with which the ground teems, which I have separated from you as unclean for you.

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 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 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.