Bible verse
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.
Leviticus 18:24 · BSB
The verses around it, from Leviticus 18.
20 You must not lie carnally with your neighbor’s wife and thus defile yourself with her.
21 You must not give any of your children to be sacrificed to Molech, for you must not profane the name of your God. I am the LORD.
22 You must not lie with a man as with a woman; that is an abomination.
23 You must not lie carnally with any animal, thus defiling yourself with it; a woman must not stand before an animal to mate with it; that is a perversion.
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.
25 Even the land has become defiled, so I am punishing it for its sin, and the land will vomit out its inhabitants.
26 But you are to keep My statutes and ordinances, and you must not commit any of these abominations—neither your native-born nor the foreigner who lives among you.
27 For the men who were in the land before you committed all these abominations, and the land has become defiled.
28 So if you defile the land, it will vomit you out as it spewed out the nations before you.
KJV
Defile not ye yourselves in any of these things: for in all these the nations are defiled which I cast out before you:
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;
ERV
Defile not ye yourselves in any of these things: for in all these the nations are defiled which I cast out from before you:
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