Leviticus 20:23
Good News Translation
Do not adopt the customs of the people who live there; I am driving out those pagans so that you can enter the land. They have disgusted me with all their evil practices.

New Revised Standard Version
You shall not follow the practices of the nation that I am driving out before you. Because they did all these things, I abhorred them.

Contemporary English Version
The nations I am chasing out did these disgusting things, and I hated them for it, so don't follow their example.

New American Bible
Do not conform, therefore, to the customs of the nations whom I am driving out of your way, because all these things that they have done have filled me with disgust for them.

Douay-Rheims Bible
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.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

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.

in the manners

Leviticus 18:3,24,30 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. . . .

Deuteronomy 12:30,31 Beware lest thou imitate them, after they are destroyed at thy coming in, and lest thou seek after their ceremonies, saying: As these nations have worshipped their gods, so will I also worship. . . .

Jeremiah 10:1,2 Hear ye the word which the Lord hath spoken concerning you, O house of Israel. . . .

therefore

Leviticus 18:27 For all these detestable things the inhabitants of the land have done, that were before you, and have defiled it.

Deuteronomy 9:5 For it is not for thy justices, and the uprightness of thy heart that thou shalt go in to possess their lands: but because they have done wickedly, they are destroyed at thy coming in: and that the Lord might accomplish his word, which he promised by oath to thy fathers Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob.

Psalm 78:59 God heard, and despised them, and he reduced Israel exceedingly as it were to nothing.

Zechariah 11:8 And I cut off three shepherds in one month, and my soul was straitened in their regard: for their soul also varied in my regard.

Context
Keep All My Decrees
22Keep my laws and my judgments, and do them: lest the land into which you are to enter to dwell therein, vomit you also out. 23Walk 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.24But to you I say: Possess their land which I will give you for an inheritance, a land flowing with milk and honey. I am the Lord your God, who have separated you from other people.…
Cross References
Leviticus 18:3
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 18:25
And with which the land is defiled: the abominations of which I will visit, that it may vomit out its inhabitants.

Jeremiah 10:2
Thus saith the Lord: Learn not according to the ways of the Gentiles: and be not afraid of the signs of heaven, which the heathens fear:

Leviticus 20:22
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