◄ Deuteronomy 18:12 ►
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Good News Translation
The LORD your God hates people who do these disgusting things, and that is why he is driving those nations out of the land as you advance.

New Revised Standard Version
For whoever does these things is abhorrent to the LORD; it is because of such abhorrent practices that the LORD your God is driving them out before you.

Contemporary English Version
The LORD is disgusted with anyone who does these things, and that's why he will help you destroy the nations that are in the land.

New American Bible
Anyone who does such things is an abomination to the LORD, and because of such abominations the LORD, your God, is dispossessing them before you.

Douay-Rheims Bible
For the Lord abhorreth all these things, and for these abominations he will destroy them at thy coming.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

For the Lord abhorreth all these things, and for these abominations he will destroy them at thy coming.

Deuteronomy 9:4 Say not in thy heart, when the Lord thy God shall have destroyed them in thy sight: For my justice hath the Lord brought me in to possess this land, whereas these nations are destroyed for their wickedness.

Leviticus 18:24,27 Defile not yourselves with any of these things with which all the nations have been defiled, which I will cast out before you, . . .

Context
Sorcery Forbidden
…11Nor charmer, nor any one that consulteth pythonic spirits, or fortune tellers, or that seeketh the truth from the dead. 12For the Lord abhorreth all these things, and for these abominations he will destroy them at thy coming.13Thou shalt be perfect, and without spot before the Lord thy God.…
Cross References
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,

Leviticus 18:25
And with which the land is defiled: the abominations of which I will visit, that it may vomit out its inhabitants.

Deuteronomy 14:27
And the Levite that is within thy gates, beware thou forsake him not, because he hath no other part in thy possession.

Ezekiel 31:11
I have delivered him into the hands of the mighty one of the nations, he shall deal with him: I have cast him out according to his wickedness.

Deuteronomy 18:11
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