THEOSISLeviticus 18:30Meaning & Commentary from the Church Fathers
Keep 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.
וּשְׁמַרְתֶּ֣ם אֶת־מִשְׁמַרְתִּ֗י לְבִלְתִּ֨י עֲשׂ֜וֹת מֵחֻקּ֤וֹת הַתּֽוֹעֵבֹת֙ אֲשֶׁ֣ר נַעֲשׂ֣וּ לִפְנֵיכֶ֔ם וְלֹ֥א תִֽטַּמְּא֖וּ בָּהֶ֑ם אֲנִ֖י יְהוָ֥ה אֱלֹהֵיכֶֽם׃
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Passages read together with this verse.
- 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.
- Deut 18:9When thou art come into the land which the Lord thy God shall give thee, beware lest thou have a mind to imitate the abominations of those nations.
- Deut 18:12For the Lord abhorreth all these things, and for these abominations he will destroy them at thy coming.
- Lev 22:9Let them keep my precepts, that they may not fall into sin, and die in the sanctuary, when they shall have defiled it. I am the Lord who sanctify them.
- Lev 18:2Speak to the children of Israel, and thou shalt say to them: I am the Lord your God.
- Lev 18:4You shall do my judgments, and shall observe my precepts, and shall walk in them. I am the Lord your God.
- Lev 18:26Keep ye my ordinances and my judgments: and do not any of these abominations. Neither any of your own nation, nor any stranger that sojourneth among you.
- Lev 18:27For all these detestable things the inhabitants of the land have done, that were before you, and have defiled it.