Deuteronomy 18:9
When you are coming into the land which your God YHWH is giving to you, you do not learn to do according to the abominations of those nations.
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In Context
8They eat portion like portion, apart from his sold things from the fathers.
Cross References
Leviticus 18:30and you have kept My charge, so as not to do [any] of the abominable statutes which have been done before you, and you do not defile yourselves with them; I [am] your God YHWH.”
Deuteronomy 12:30take heed to yourself lest you are ensnared after them, after their being destroyed out of your presence, and lest you inquire about their gods, saying, How do these nations serve their gods, that I also do so?
Deuteronomy 20:18so that they do not teach you to do according to all their abominations which they have done for their gods, and you have sinned against your God YHWH.
2 Kings 17:11and make incense there in all high places, like the nations that YHWH removed from their presence, and do evil things to provoke YHWH,
2 Chronicles 36:14Also, all the heads of the priests and the people have multiplied to commit a trespass according to all the abominations of the nations, and they defile the house of YHWH that He has sanctified in Jerusalem.
Matthew Henry on Deuteronomy 18:2-9
Maintenance of the Levites. ( b. c. 1451.) 1 The priests the Levites, and all the tribe of Levi, shall have no part nor inheritance with Israel: they shall eat the offerings of the Lord made by fire, and his inheritance. 2 Therefore shall they have no inheritance among their brethren: the Lord is their inheritance, as he hath said unto them. 3 And this shall be the priest's due from the people, from them that offer a sacrifice, whether it be ox or sheep; and they shall give unto the priest the shoulder, and the… Read the whole commentary →