Leviticus 20:23

⁵Not for your righteousness or for the uprightness of your heart do you go in to possess their land; but for the wickedness of these nations the LORD your God does drive them out from before you, and that he may establish the word which the LORD swore to your fathers, to Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob.

²⁴“‘Don’t defile yourselves in any of these things; for in all these the nations which I am casting out before you were defiled.

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.’”

³You shall not do as they do in the land of Egypt, where you lived. You shall not do as they do in the land of Canaan, where I am bringing you. You shall not follow their statutes.

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.

²⁷(for the men of the land that were before you had done all these abominations, and the land became defiled),

⁸I cut off the three shepherds in one month; for my soul was weary of them, and their soul also loathed me.

¹Hear the word which the LORD speaks to you, house of Israel! ²The LORD says, “Don’t learn the way of the nations, and don’t be dismayed at the signs of the sky; for the nations are dismayed at them.

⁵⁹When God heard this, he was angry, and greatly abhorred Israel,