“Speak to the Israelites and say to them: ‘I am the Lord your God.(A)

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Speak unto the children of Israel, and say unto them, I am the Lord your God.

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23 You must not live according to the customs of the nations(A) I am going to drive out before you.(B) Because they did all these things, I abhorred them.(C)

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23 And ye shall not walk in the manners of the nation, which I cast out before you: for they committed all these things, and therefore I abhorred them.

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Occult Practices

When you enter the land the Lord your God is giving you, do not learn to imitate(A) the detestable ways(B) of the nations there.

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When thou art come into the land which the Lord thy God giveth thee, thou shalt not learn to do after the abominations of those nations.

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Do not be like your parents(A) and your fellow Israelites, who were unfaithful(B) to the Lord, the God of their ancestors, so that he made them an object of horror,(C) as you see.

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And be not ye like your fathers, and like your brethren, which trespassed against the Lord God of their fathers, who therefore gave them up to desolation, as ye see.

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Saying 3

24 Do not make friends with a hot-tempered person,
    do not associate with one easily angered,

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24 Make no friendship with an angry man; and with a furious man thou shalt not go:

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25 or you may learn their ways
    and get yourself ensnared.(A)

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25 Lest thou learn his ways, and get a snare to thy soul.

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25 or you may learn their ways
    and get yourself ensnared.(A)

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25 Lest thou learn his ways, and get a snare to thy soul.

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