Deuteronomy 9:4 References
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"aDo not say in your heart when the Lord your God has driven them out before you, 'Because of my righteousness the Lord has brought me in to possess this land,' but it is bbecause of the wickedness of these nations that the Lord is dispossessing them before you.
b Leviticus 18:3, Leviticus 18:24-30, Deuteronomy 12:31, Deuteronomy 18:9-14
Leviticus 18
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'You shall not do what is adone in the land of Egypt where you lived, nor are you to do what is bdone in the land of Canaan where I am bringing you; you shall not walk in their statutes.
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.
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'Thus you are to keep aMy charge, that you do not practice any of the abominable customs which have been practiced before you, so as not to defile yourselves with them; bI am the Lord your God.'"
Deuteronomy 12
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"aYou shall not behave thus toward the Lord your God, for every abominable act which the Lord hates they have done for their gods; for bthey even burn their sons and daughters in the fire to their gods.
Deuteronomy 18
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"When you enter the land which the Lord your God gives you, you shall not learn to aimitate the detestable things of those nations.
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"There shall not be found among you anyone awho makes his son or his daughter pass through the fire, one who uses divination, one bwho practices witchcraft, or one who interprets omens, or a sorcerer,