Lévitique 20:23

Louis Segond

Vous ne suivrez point les usages des nations que je vais chasser devant vous; car elles ont fait toutes ces choses, et je les ai en abomination.

Parallel Translations

La Bible Ostervald (1996)
Vous ne marcherez point selon les lois de la nation que je vais chasser de devant vous; car ils ont fait toutes ces choses, et je les ai en abomination.

Darby's French Translation
Et vous ne marcherez point dans les statuts de la nation que je chasse devant vous; car ils ont fait toutes ces choses-l�, et je les ai eus en abomination;

La Bible David Martin (1744)
Vous ne suivrez point aussi les ordonnances des nations que je m'en vais chasser de devant vous; car elles ont fait toutes ces choses-l�, et je les ai eues en abomination.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

in the manners: Leviticus 18:3, Leviticus 18:24, Leviticus 18:30, Deuteronomy 12:30, Deuteronomy 12:31, Jeremiah 10:1, Jeremiah 10:2

therefore: Leviticus 18:27, Deuteronomy 9:5, Psalms 78:59, Zechariah 11:8

Reciprocal: Leviticus 26:11 - abhor Leviticus 26:30 - my soul Numbers 33:56 - General Deuteronomy 12:4 - General 1 Kings 21:26 - according to 2 Chronicles 33:2 - like unto Psalms 5:5 - thou Psalms 106:40 - insomuch Ezekiel 31:11 - I have driven

Gill's Notes on the Bible

And ye shall not walk in the manners of the nation which I cast out before you,.... Nation seems to be put for nations, for there were seven nations cast out for them; though the Canaanites may be intended, being a general name for the whole: some think the Amorites are meant, who were a principal nation, and notorious for their wickedness: hence we often meet with this phrase in Jewish writings, "the way of the Amorites", as being exceeding bad, and so to be avoided, and by no means to be walked in, Genesis 15:16;

for they committed all these things; were guilty of all the idolatries, incests, and uncleannesses before mentioned, and forbid under severe penalties:

and therefore I abhorred them; the sins committed by them, being so abominable and detestable: their persons, though the creatures of God, were had in abhorrence by him, and this he showed by casting them out of the land; and hereby it is suggested, that, should they, the Israelites, be guilty of the like, they also would be rejected and abhorred by him: the Targums of Onkelos and Jonathan are,

"my Word abhorred them,''

Christ, the eternal Word, Psalms 45:7.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

The ground is here again stated on which all these laws of holiness should be obeyed. See Leviticus 18:24-30 note.

Leviticus 20:24

Compare the margin reference.

Leviticus 20:25, Leviticus 20:26

The distinction between clean and unclean for the whole people, and not for any mere section of it, was one great typical mark of “the kingdom of priests, the holy nation.” See the Leviticus 11:42 note.

Leviticus 20:25

Any manner of living thing that creepeth - Rather, any creeping thing; that is, any vermin. See Leviticus 11:20-23. The reference in this verse is to dead animals, not to the creatures when alive.