OLD TESTAMENT · VERSE 26

Leviticus 18:26

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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

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Leviticus 18:23–29

23

“‘You shall not lie with any animal to defile yourself with it. No woman may give herself to an animal, to lie down with it: it is a perversion.

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.

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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),

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that the land not vomit you out also, when you defile it, as it vomited out the nation that was before you.

29

“‘For whoever shall do any of these abominations, even the souls that do them shall be cut off from among their people.

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