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Deuteronomy 18:12

Deuteronomy 18:12 is verse 12 of Deuteronomy chapter 18, shown here in the Berean Standard Bible.

Berean Standard Bible

For whoever does these things is detestable to the LORD. And because of these detestable things, the LORD your God is driving out the nations before you.

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King James Version

For all that do these things are an abomination unto the LORD: and because of these abominations the LORD thy God doth drive them out from before thee.

World English Bible

For whoever does these things is an abomination to Yahweh. Because of these abominations, Yahweh your God drives them out from before you.

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Deuteronomy 18:10–14 · Berean Standard Bible

10 Let no one be found among you who sacrifices his son or daughter in the fire, practices divination or conjury, interprets omens, practices sorcery,

11 casts spells, consults a medium or spiritist, or inquires of the dead.

12 For whoever does these things is detestable to the LORD. And because of these detestable things, the LORD your God is driving out the nations before you.

13 You must be blameless before the LORD your God.

14 Though these nations, which you will dispossess, listen to conjurers and diviners, the LORD your God has not permitted you to do so.

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Hebrew words

כִּֽיthat תוֹעֲבַ֥ת[is] [the] abomination of יְהוָ֖הYahweh כָּלevery עֹ֣שֵׂה[one who] does אֵ֑לֶּה<of> these [things]וּבִגְלַל֙and on account of הַתּוֹעֵבֹ֣תthe abominations הָאֵ֔לֶּה<the> these יְהוָ֣הYahweh אֱלֹהֶ֔יךָGod your מוֹרִ֥ישׁ[is] about to dispossess אוֹתָ֖ם<obj.> them מִפָּנֶֽיךָfrom before you

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Cross-references

The Treasury of Scripture Knowledge lists these related verses. Scripture text comes from the Berean Standard Bible.

Deuteronomy 9:4
When the LORD your God has driven them out before you, do not say in your heart, “Because of my righteousness the LORD has brought me in to possess this land.” Rather, the LORD is driving out these nations before you because of their wickedness.

Leviticus 18:24
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.

Leviticus 18:27
For the men who were in the land before you committed all these abominations, and the land has become defiled.

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