Leviticus 20:23

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.

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.

This was said to Israel at a particular time, so it is wise to read it together with the surrounding text. Do read the surrounding verses too, because the context often says more than a single verse.

Compare

BSB: You must not follow the statutes of the nations I am driving out before you. Because they did all these things, I abhorred them.
KJV: 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.
WEB: 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.
ASV: And 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.
DARBY: And 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.
BLB: And you⁺ shall not walk in the statutes of the nation that I am casting out before you⁺, for all these things they commit, and I abhor them.

ÅB: og dere skal ikke følge det folks skikker som jeg driver ut for dere; for alt dette har de gjort, og jeg vemmedes ved dem,
OTB: Dere må ikke følge skikkene til de nasjonene jeg skal drive ut foran dere, for de gjorde alle disse tingene, og jeg avskydde dem.
B1930: og I skal ikke følge det folks skikker som jeg driver ut for eder; for alt dette har de gjort, og jeg vemmedes ved dem,

Study notes (Tyndale)

Original text and word study

Cross references

Leviticus 18:24
Defile not ye yourselves in any of these things: for in all these the nations are defiled which I cast out before you:
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Deuteronomy 9:5
Not for thy righteousness, or for the uprightness of thine heart, dost thou go to possess their land: but for the wickedness of these nations the LORD thy God doth drive them out from before thee, and that he may perform the word which the LORD sware unto thy fathers, Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob.
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Leviticus 18:30
Therefore shall ye keep mine ordinance, that ye commit not any one of these abominable customs, which were committed before you, and that ye defile not yourselves therein: I am the LORD your God.
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Leviticus 18:3
After the doings of the land of Egypt, wherein ye dwelt, shall ye not do: and after the doings of the land of Canaan, whither I bring you, shall ye not do: neither shall ye walk in their ordinances.
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Leviticus 18:27
(For all these abominations have the men of the land done, which were before you, and the land is defiled;)
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Deuteronomy 12:30–31
Take heed to thyself that thou be not snared by following them, after that they be destroyed from before thee; and that thou enquire not after their gods, saying, How did these nations serve their gods? even so will I do likewise.
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Jeremiah 10:1–2
Hear ye the word which the LORD speaketh unto you, O house of Israel:
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Psalms 78:59
When God heard this, he was wroth, and greatly abhorred Israel:
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