Leviticus 18:24 KJV — MannaFest

Defile not ye yourselves in any of these things: for in all these the nations are defiled which I cast out before you:

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ASV

Defile not ye yourselves in any of these things: for in all these the nations are defiled which I cast out from before you;

WEB

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.

YLT

`Ye are not defiled with all these, for with all these have the nations been defiled which I am sending away from before you;

DBT

Make not yourselves unclean in any of these things; for in all these have the nations which I am casting out before you made themselves unclean.

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Old Testament

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Leviticus — A holy people before a holy God. Five offerings, a priesthood, a purity code — and at the centre, a single day that carries the sins of a year to a cleansed Most Holy Place.

Author: Moses — receives these laws at Sinai; the repeated formula is ‘the LORD spake unto Moses, saying’
Date: Composed during Israel's year at Sinai (15th–13th century BC)

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Deuteronomy 18:12
For all that do these things are an abomination unto the Lord: and because of these abominations the Lord thy God doth drive them out from before thee.
Leviticus 18:30
Therefore shall ye keep mine ordinance, that ye commit not any one of these abominable customs, which were committed before you, and that ye defile not yourselves therein: I am the Lord your God.
Ezra 9:1
Now when these things were done, the princes came to me, saying, The people of Israel, and the priests, and the Levites, have not separated themselves from the people of the lands, doing according to their abominations, even of the Canaanites, the Hittites, the Perizzites, the Jebusites, the Ammonites, the Moabites, the Egyptians, and the Amorites.
Leviticus 20:23
And ye shall not walk in the manners of the nation, which I cast out before you: for they committed all these things, and therefore I abhorred them.
Ezra 9:11
Which thou hast commanded by thy servants the prophets, saying, The land, unto which ye go to possess it, is an unclean land with the filthiness of the people of the lands, with their abominations, which have filled it from one end to another with their uncleanness.

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All sin is defiling to the conscience, but these are sins that have a peculiar turpitude in them. Our heavenly Father, in kindness to us, requires of us that we keep ourselves clean, and do not wallow in the dirt.

Matthew Henry· Commentary on the Whole Bible, 1710puritan

When we observe how ill sin looks in others we should use this as an argument with ourselves with the utmost care and caution to preserve our purity. For these and the like sins the Canaanites were to be destroyed; these filled the measure of the Amorites' iniquity ( Gen. xv.

Matthew Henry· Commentary on the Whole Bible, 1710puritan

5 Ye shall therefore keep my statutes, and my judgments: which if a man do, he shall live in them: I am the L ORD . After divers ceremonial institutions, God here returns to the enforcement of moral precepts. The former are still of use to us as types, the latter still binding as laws.

Matthew Henry· Commentary on the Whole Bible, 1710puritan

Defile not yourselves in any of these things--In the preceding verses seventeen express cases of incest are enumerated; comprehending eleven of affinity [Le 18:7-16], and six of consanguinity [Le 18:17-20], together with some criminal enormities of an aggravated and unnatural character.

Jamieson, Fausset & Brown· Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible, 1871reformed

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LEV 18:241CO 3:17 1CO 6:18-20
LEV 18:24LEV 18:30 LEV 20:23
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LEV 18:241CO 3:17 EZE 43:12
LEV 18:241CO 3:17 NUM 19:20
LEV 18:241CO 3:17 EZE 7:22
LEV 18:24DEU 18:12 DEU 9:4
LEV 18:241CO 3:17 EZE 5:11
LEV 18:24LEV 18:3 EXO 23:24

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