Deuteronomy 18:9

WEB

⁹When you have come into the land which the LORD your God gives you, you shall not learn to imitate the abominations of those nations.

KJV

⁹¶ 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.

BSB

⁹When you enter the land that the LORD your God is giving you, do not imitate the detestable ways of the nations there.

FBV

⁹Once you enter the country the Lord your God is giving you, don't copy the offensive ways of the nations there.

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Extra References

Deuteronomy 12:29-31

²⁹When the LORD your God cuts off the nations from before you where you go in to dispossess them, and you dispossess them and dwell in their land, ³⁰be careful that you are not ensnared to follow them after they are destroyed from before you, and that you not inquire after their gods, saying, “How do these nations serve their gods? I will do likewise.” ³¹You shall not do so to the LORD your God; for every abomination to the LORD, which he hates, they have done to their gods; for they even burn their sons and their daughters in the fire to their gods.

Leviticus 18:26-27

²⁶You 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),

Leviticus 18:30

³⁰Therefore you shall keep my requirements, that you do not practice any of these abominable customs which were practiced before you, and that you do not defile yourselves with them. I am the LORD your God.’”