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Leviticus 18:24
24Do not do any of these things. They would make you unclean. The people who live in Canaan do these things. It made them unclean. God will send those people out of their country.
Leviticus 18:24 in other versions
- King James Version (KJV)Defile not ye yourselves in any of these things: for in all these the nations are defiled which I cast out before you:
- New International Version (NIV)“ ‘Do not defile yourselves in any of these ways, because this is how the nations that I am going to drive out before you became defiled.
- English Standard Version (ESV)"Do not make yourselves unclean by any of these things, for by all these the nations I am driving out before you have become unclean,
- New King James Version (NKJV)‘Do not defile yourselves with any of these things; for by all these the nations are defiled, which I am casting out before you.
Context of Leviticus 18:24
22A man must not have sex with another man. That is an evil thing to do. 23Do not have sex with an animal. That would make you unclean. A woman must not offer herself to an animal to have sex with it. She would be doing a disgusting thing. Do not do any of these things. They would make you unclean. The people who live in Canaan do these things. It made them unclean. God will send those people out of their country. 25Canaan is unclean because the people did these things. This is why God pushed the people out of that land. 26But you and the foreigners with you must not do these wrong things.
Read all of Leviticus 18Leviticus 18:24 word by word
אַל־תִּֽטַּמְּא֖וּ בְּכָל־אֵ֑לֶּה כִּ֤י בְכָל־אֵ֙לֶּה֙ נִטְמְא֣וּ הַגּוֹיִ֔ם אֲשֶׁר־אֲנִ֥י מְשַׁלֵּ֖חַ מִפְּנֵיכֶֽם׃Read the interlinear
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Cross-references for Leviticus 18:24
- Leviticus 18:6Tell them this: A person must not have sex with anyone who belongs to his own family. I am the Lord.
- Jeremiah 44:4Many times I sent my servants the prophets to speak to them. They warned them, ‘Do not do this disgusting thing that the Lord hates!’
- Matthew 15:18The words that people speak come from their thoughts. It is what comes out of their mouths that makes them unclean.
- Mark 7:10For example, Moses wrote, “You must love your father and your mother. You must obey them.” He also said, “You must kill anyone who curses his father or his mother.”
- 1 Corinthians 3:17If anyone destroys God's special house, then God will destroy that person. And you are like that house. You belong to God in a special way.
- Leviticus 20:22If the people want to remain in the land that I am giving to them, they must obey my laws and my rules.
- Deuteronomy 12:31No! You must not worship the Lord your God in the same way that those people worship their gods. When they worship, they do wicked things that the Lord hates. They even burn their children with fire, to make sacrifices to their gods.
- Deuteronomy 18:12The Lord hates anyone who does these things. It is because of those evil things that the Lord will chase the other nations out of the land as you move in.
Commentaries on Leviticus 18:24
- Barnes’ Notes on the Bible · v. 24-30Verses 24-30 The land designed and consecrated for His people by Yahweh Leviticus 25:23 is here impersonated, and represented as vomiting forth its present inhabitants, in consequence of their indulgence in the abominations that have been mentioned. The iniquity of the Canaanites was now full. See Genesis 15:16; compare Isaiah 24:1-6. The Israelites in this place, and throughout the chapter, are exhorted to a pure and holy life, on the ground that Yahweh…Read the comment
- Tyndale Open Study Notes · v. 24-25any of these practices: pagan worship (Leviticus 18:21), homosexuality (18:22), and bestiality (18:23). The land could not endure the sinful practices of the Canaanites. It is described as vomiting them out, showing how completely they would be removed (see 18:28).Read the comment
- Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary · v. 2424. 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. In such prohibitions it was necessary for the instruction of a people low in the scale of moral perception, that the enumeration should be very specific as well as…Read the comment
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Commentaries on Leviticus 18
- Adam Clarke Bible Commentary
- Barnes’ Notes on the Bible
- Matthew Henry Concise Commentary
- Tyndale Open Study Notes
- Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary
- Rashi on Tanakh
- Calvin’s Commentaries
- Keil & Delitzsch Commentary
- John Wesley’s Notes
- Darby Translation Notes
- Geneva Bible Translation Notes
- Kingcomments
- Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary
- Matthew Henry’s Modern English Commentary
- Scofield Reference Notes, 1917 Edition
- Original Douay–Rheims Annotations
- Seventh-day Adventist Bible Commentary
- EGW Writings
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