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Deuteronomy 12:30 - Meaning and Application

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Translation: World English Bible — Catholic Edition

" be careful that you are not ensnared to follow them after they are destroyed from before you, and that you not inquire after their gods, saying, “How do these nations serve their gods? I will do likewise.” "

Deuteronomy 12:30

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28 Observe and hear all these words which I command you, that it may go well with you and with your children after you forever, when you do that which is good and right in the LORD your God’s eyes.

29 When the LORD your God cuts off the nations from before you where you go in to dispossess them, and you dispossess them and dwell in their land,

30 be careful that you are not ensnared to follow them after they are destroyed from before you, and that you not inquire after their gods, saying, “How do these nations serve their gods? I will do likewise.”

31 You shall not do so to the LORD your God; for every abomination to the LORD, which he hates, they have done to their gods; for they even burn their sons and their daughters in the fire to their gods.

32 Whatever thing I command you, that you shall observe to do. You shall not add to it, nor take away from it.

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Deuteronomy 11:16

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Deuteronomy 20:18

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Exodus 23:33

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"They shall not dwell in your land, lest they make you sin against me, for if you serve their gods, it will surely be a snare to you.”"

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Jeremiah 25:6

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"Don’t go after other gods to serve them or worship them, and don’t provoke me to anger with the work of your hands; then I will do you no harm.”"

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2 Kings 17:33

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"They feared the LORD, and also served their own gods, after the ways of the nations from among whom they had been carried away."

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Deuteronomy 12:1

"These are the statutes and the ordinances which you shall observe to do in the land which the LORD, the God of your fathers, has given you to possess all the days that you live on the earth."

Deuteronomy 12:2

"You shall surely destroy all the places in which the nations that you shall dispossess served their gods: on the high mountains, and on the hills, and under every green tree."

Deuteronomy 12:3

"You shall break down their altars, dash their pillars in pieces, and burn their Asherah poles with fire. You shall cut down the engraved images of their gods. You shall destroy their name out of that place."

Deuteronomy 12:4

"You shall not do so to the LORD your God."

Deuteronomy 12:5

"But to the place which the LORD your God shall choose out of all your tribes, to put his name there, you shall seek his habitation, and you shall come there."

Deuteronomy 12:6

"You shall bring your burnt offerings, your sacrifices, your tithes, the wave offering of your hand, your vows, your free will offerings, and the firstborn of your herd and of your flock there."

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