23 And you shall not walk in the customs of the nation that I am driving out before you, for vthey did all these things, and therefore I detested them.
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Leviticus 18:24–25
“Do not make yourselves unclean by any of these things, for by all these the nations I am driving out before you have become unclean, and the land became unclean, so that I punished its iniquity, and the land vomited out its inhabitants.
Leviticus 18:27
(for the people of the land, who were before you, did all of these abominations, so that the land became unclean),
Deuteronomy 9:4
“Do not say in your heart, after the LORD your God has thrust them out before you, ‘It is because of my righteousness that the LORD has brought me in to possess this land,’ whereas it is because of the wickedness of these nations that the LORD is driving them out before you.
Deuteronomy 18:9
“When you come into the land that the LORD your God is giving you, you shall not learn to follow the abominable practices of those nations.
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