Occult Practices

When you enter the land the Lord your God is giving you, do not learn to imitate(A) the detestable ways(B) of the nations there.

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When thou art come into the land which the Lord thy God giveth thee, thou shalt not learn to do after the abominations of those nations.

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Avoid Wicked Customs

“When you come into the land which the Lord your God is giving you, (A)you shall not learn to follow the [a]abominations of those nations.

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Footnotes

  1. Deuteronomy 18:9 detestable acts

24 There were even male shrine prostitutes(A) in the land; the people engaged in all the detestable(B) practices of the nations the Lord had driven out before the Israelites.

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24 And there were also sodomites in the land: and they did according to all the abominations of the nations which the Lord cast out before the children of Israel.

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24 (A)And there were also [a]perverted persons in the land. They did according to all the (B)abominations of the nations which the Lord had cast out before the children of (C)Israel.

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Footnotes

  1. 1 Kings 14:24 Heb. qadesh, one practicing sodomy and prostitution in religious rituals

For you have spent enough time in the past(A) doing what pagans choose to do—living in debauchery, lust, drunkenness, orgies, carousing and detestable idolatry.(B)

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For the time past of our life may suffice us to have wrought the will of the Gentiles, when we walked in lasciviousness, lusts, excess of wine, revellings, banquetings, and abominable idolatries:

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For we have spent enough of our past [a]lifetime in doing the will of the Gentiles—when we walked in lewdness, lusts, drunkenness, revelries, drinking parties, and abominable idolatries.

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Footnotes

  1. 1 Peter 4:3 NU time