Deuteronomy 18:12 BSB

Original language & word study

14 tagged words

Original	Transliteration	Meaning	Word study
כִּֽי־	ki-	that	H3588 →
תוֹעֲבַ֥ת	to.'a.Vat	[is] [the] abomination of	H8441 →
יְהוָ֖ה	Yah.weh	Yahweh	H3068 →
כָּל־	kol-	every	H3605 →
עֹ֣שֵׂה	'O.seh	[one who] does	H6213 →
אֵ֑לֶּה	'E.leh	<of> these [things]	H428 →
וּבִגְלַל֙	u.vig.Lal	and on account of	H1558 →
הַתּוֹעֵבֹ֣ת	ha.to.'e.Vot	the abominations	H8441 →
הָאֵ֔לֶּה	ha.'E.leh	<the> these	H428 →
יְהוָ֣ה	Yah.weh	Yahweh	H3068 →
אֱלֹהֶ֔יךָ	'e.lo.Hei.kha	God your	H430 →
מוֹרִ֥ישׁ	mo.Rish	[is] about to dispossess	H3423 →
אוֹתָ֖ם	'o.Tam	<obj.> them	H853 →
מִפָּנֶֽיךָ׃	mi.pa.Nei.kha	from before you	H6440 →

Rare words are the text's own signal of a deliberate thread: the fewer the occurrences, the more the places it appears belong together.

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Follow this verse’s cross-references two steps out. Each card is a verse this one points to, and beneath it the verses that one points to in turn. Where several different paths arrive at the same place, that place is listed first: the text keeps returning to it. Every stop shows its own words, and every stop is a page.

Through
Leviticus 18:24
Do not defile yourselves by any of these practices, for by all these things the nations I am driving out before you have defiled themselves.
leads to
- Leviticus 18:30
  You must keep My charge not to practice any of the abominable customs that were practiced before you, so that you do not defile yourselves by them. I am the LORD your God.”
- Leviticus 20:22–23
  You are therefore to keep all My statutes and ordinances, so that the land where I am bringing you to live will not vomit you out.
- Leviticus 18:3
  You must not follow the practices of the land of Egypt, where you used to live, and you must not follow the practices of the land of Canaan, into which I am bringing you.…
Through
Deuteronomy 9:4
When the LORD your God has driven them out before you, do not say in your heart, “Because of my righteousness the LORD has brought me in to possess this land.” Rather, the LORD…
leads to
- Deuteronomy 8:17
  You might say in your heart, “The power and strength of my hands have made this wealth for me.”
- Deuteronomy 9:5
  It is not because of your righteousness or uprightness of heart that you are going in to possess their land, but it is because of their wickedness that the LORD your God is driving…
- 2 Timothy 1:9
  He has saved us and called us to a holy calling, not because of our works, but by His own purpose and by the grace He granted us in Christ Jesus before time began.
- Deuteronomy 18:9–14
  When you enter the land that the LORD your God is giving you, do not imitate the detestable ways of the nations there.
- 1 Corinthians 4:7

The gold bar shows how strongly the cross-reference sources tie the two verses together: a long bar means many compiled references make the connection, a short one means few.

Deuteronomy 22:5A woman must not wear men’s clothing, and a man must not wear women’s clothing, for whoever does these things is detestable to the LORD your God.Leviticus 18:24Do not defile yourselves by any of these practices, for by all these things the nations I am driving out before you have defiled themselves.Deuteronomy 9:4When the LORD your God has driven them out before you, do not say in your heart, “Because of my righteousness the LORD has brought me in to possess this land.” Rather, the LORD is driving out these nations before you because of their wickedness.Leviticus 18:27For the men who were in the land before you committed all these abominations, and the land has become defiled.Leviticus 18:25Even the land has become defiled, so I am punishing it for its sin, and the land will vomit out its inhabitants.Deuteronomy 25:16For everyone who behaves dishonestly in regard to these things is detestable to the LORD your God.Ezekiel 31:11I delivered it into the hand of the ruler of the nations, for him to deal with it according to its wickedness. I have banished it.Judges 11:24Do you not possess whatever your god Chemosh grants you? So also, we possess whatever the LORD our God has granted us.Ezra 9:11that You gave through Your servants the prophets, saying: ‘The land that you are entering to possess is a land polluted by the impurity of its peoples and the abominations with which they have filled it from end to end.

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