Leviticus 18:30
Good News Translation
And the LORD said, "Obey the commands I give and do not follow the practices of the people who lived in the land before you, and do not make yourselves unclean by doing any of these things. I am the LORD your God."

New Revised Standard Version
So keep my charge not to commit any of these abominations that were done before you, and not to defile yourselves by them: I am the LORD your God.

New American Bible
Heed my charge, then, not to observe the abominable customs that have been observed before your time, and thus become impure by them. I, the LORD, am your God.

Douay-Rheims Bible
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.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

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.

abominable

Leviticus 18:3,26,27 You 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. . . .

Leviticus 20:23 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.

Deuteronomy 18:9-12 When 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. . . .

that ye defile

Leviticus 18:24 Defile not yourselves with any of these things with which all the nations have been defiled, which I will cast out before you,

I am

Leviticus 18:2,4 Speak to the children of Israel, and thou shalt say to them: I am the Lord your God. . . .

Context
Unlawful Sexual Relations
29Every soul that shall commit any of these abominations, shall perish from the midst of his people. 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.
Cross References
Leviticus 18:2
Speak to the children of Israel, and thou shalt say to them: I am the Lord your God.

Leviticus 18:29
Every soul that shall commit any of these abominations, shall perish from the midst of his people.

Leviticus 19:1
The Lord spoke to Moses, saying:

Leviticus 22:9
Let 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.

Deuteronomy 11:1
Therefore love the Lord thy God and observe his precepts and ceremonies, his judgments and commandments at all times.

Leviticus 18:29
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