THEOSISLeviticus 20:23Meaning & Commentary from the Church Fathers
Walk 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.
וְלֹ֤א תֵֽלְכוּ֙ בְּחֻקֹּ֣ת הַגּ֔וֹי אֲשֶׁר־אֲנִ֥י מְשַׁלֵּ֖חַ מִפְּנֵיכֶ֑ם כִּ֤י אֶת־כָּל־אֵ֙לֶּה֙ עָשׂ֔וּ וָאָקֻ֖ץ בָּֽם׃
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Passages read together with this verse.
- Lev 18:24Defile not yourselves with any of these things with which all the nations have been defiled, which I will cast out before you,
- Deut 9:5For it is not for thy justices, and the uprightness of thy heart that thou shalt go in to possess their lands: but because they have done wickedly, they are destroyed at thy coming in: and that the Lord might accomplish his word, which he promised by oath to thy fathers Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob.
- 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.
- 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 18:27For all these detestable things the inhabitants of the land have done, that were before you, and have defiled it.
- Deut 12:30Beware lest thou imitate them, after they are destroyed at thy coming in, and lest thou seek after their ceremonies, saying: As these nations have worshipped their gods, so will I also worship.
- Deut 12:31Thou shalt not do in like manner to the Lord thy God. For they have done to their gods all the abominations which the Lord abhorreth, offering their sons and daughters, and burning them with fire.
- Zech 11:8And I cut off three shepherds in one month, and my soul was straitened in their regard: for their soul also varied in my regard.