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Leviticus 18:26 - Meaning and Application
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Translation: World English Bible — Catholic Edition
" You therefore shall keep my statutes and my ordinances, and shall not do any of these abominations; neither the native-born, nor the stranger who lives as a foreigner among you "
Leviticus 18:26
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24 “‘Don’t defile yourselves in any of these things; for in all these the nations which I am casting out before you were defiled.
25 The land was defiled. Therefore I punished its iniquity, and the land vomited out her inhabitants.
26 You therefore shall keep my statutes and my ordinances, and shall not do any of these abominations; neither the native-born, nor the stranger who lives as a foreigner among you
27 (for the men of the land that were before you had done all these abominations, and the land became defiled),
28 that the land not vomit you out also, when you defile it, as it vomited out the nation that was before you.
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Leviticus 18:1
"The LORD said to Moses,"
Leviticus 18:2
"“Speak to the children of Israel, and say to them, ‘I am the LORD your God."
Leviticus 18:3
"You shall not do as they do in the land of Egypt, where you lived. You shall not do as they do in the land of Canaan, where I am bringing you. You shall not follow their statutes."
Leviticus 18:4
"You shall do my ordinances. You shall keep my statutes and walk in them. I am the LORD your God."
Leviticus 18:5
"You shall therefore keep my statutes and my ordinances, which if a man does, he shall live in them. I am the LORD."
Leviticus 18:6
"“‘None of you shall approach any close relatives, to uncover their nakedness: I am the LORD."
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