Leviticus 20:23 — Bible Verse (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.”
Leviticus 20:23 — King James Version (KJV), 1611
Leviticus 20:23 in 6 Bible Translations
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Leviticus 20:23 WEB — World English Bible (2000)
“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.”
Leviticus 20:23 — World English Bible
Leviticus 20:23 ASV — American Standard Version (1901)
“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. ”
Leviticus 20:23 — American Standard Version
Leviticus 20:23 YLT — Young's Literal Translation (1862)
“and ye walk not in the statutes of the nation which I am sending away from before you, for all these they have done, and I am wearied with them;”
Leviticus 20:23 — Young's Literal Translation
Leviticus 20:23 DBY — Darby Translation (1890)
“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. ”
Leviticus 20:23 — Darby Translation
Leviticus 20:23 GEN — Geneva Bible (1599)
“Wherefore ye shall not walke in the maners of this nation which I cast out before you: for they haue committed all these things, therefore I abhorred them.”
Leviticus 20:23 — Geneva Bible
Leviticus 20:23 in Context — Leviticus 20
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.
23 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.
What Does Leviticus 20:23 Mean?
Leviticus 20:23 is a verse from the Book of Leviticus, part of the Old Testament. It appears in Leviticus chapter 20. Use The Living Sword's word-by-word study mode to explore every word in the original Hebrew and Aramaic.
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