Ezra 9:1 References
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Now when these things had been completed, the princes approached me, saying, "The people of Israel and the priests and the Levites have not aseparated themselves from the peoples of the lands, baccording to their abominations, those of the Canaanites, the Hittites, the Perizzites, the Jebusites, the Ammonites, the Moabites, the Egyptians and the Amorites.
b Leviticus 18:24-30
Leviticus 18
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'Do not defile yourselves by any of these things; for by all these athe nations which I am casting out before you have become defiled.
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'For the land has become defiled, atherefore I have brought its punishment upon it, so the land bhas spewed out its inhabitants.
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'But as for you, you are to keep My statutes and My judgments and shall not do any of these abominations, neither the native, nor the alien who sojourns among you
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(for the men of the land who have been before you have done all these abominations, and the land has become defiled);
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so that the land will not spew you out, should you defile it, as it has spewed out the nation which has been before you.
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'For whoever does any of these abominations, those persons who do so shall be cut off from among their people.