THEOSISLeviticus 18:24Meaning & Commentary from the Church Fathers
Defile not yourselves with any of these things with which all the nations have been defiled, which I will cast out before you,
אַל־תִּֽטַּמְּא֖וּ בְּכָל־אֵ֑לֶּה כִּ֤י בְכָל־אֵ֙לֶּה֙ נִטְמְא֣וּ הַגּוֹיִ֔ם אֲשֶׁר־אֲנִ֥י מְשַׁלֵּ֖חַ מִפְּנֵיכֶֽם׃
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Passages read together with this verse.
- Deut 18:12For the Lord abhorreth all these things, and for these abominations he will destroy them at thy coming.
- Lev 18:30Keep my commandments. Do not the things which they have done, that have been before you: and be not defiled therein. I am the Lord your God.
- Lev 20:22Keep my laws and my judgments, and do them: lest the land into which you are to enter to dwell therein, vomit you also out.
- Lev 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.
- Matt 15:18But the things which proceed out of the mouth, come forth from the heart, and those things defile a man.
- Matt 15:20These are the things that defile a man. But to eat with unwashed hands doth not defile a man.
- 1 Cor 3:17But if any man violate the temple of God, him shall God destroy. For the temple of God is holy, which you are.
- Lev 18:3You shall not do according to the custom of the land of Egypt, in which you dwelt: neither shall you act according to the manner of the country of Chanaan, into which I will bring you. Nor shall you walk in their ordinances.