Deuteronomy 12:30-31
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take care l that you be not ensnared to follow them, after they have been destroyed before you, and that you do not inquire about their gods, saying, 'How did these nations serve their gods? - that I also may do the same.'
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m You shall not worship the Lord your God in that way, for every n abominable thing that the Lord hates they have done for their gods, for o they even burn their sons and their daughters in the fire to their gods.
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Cross References
Deuteronomy 7:16
And you shall consume all the peoples that the Lord your God will give over to you. Your eye shall not pity them, neither shall you serve their gods, for that would be a snare to you.
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Deuteronomy 12:4
You shall not worship the Lord your God in that way.
Leviticus 18:3
You shall not do as they do in the land of Egypt, where you lived, and you shall not do as they do in the land of Canaan, to which I am bringing you. You shall not walk in their statutes.
Leviticus 18:26
But you shall keep my statutes and my rules and do none of these abominations, either the native or the stranger who sojourns among you
Leviticus 18:30
So keep my charge never to practice any of these abominable customs that were practiced before you, and never to make yourselves unclean by them: I am the Lord your God.
2 Kings 17:15
They despised his statutes and his covenant that he made with their fathers and the warnings that he gave them. They went after false idols and became false, and they followed the nations that were around them, concerning whom the Lord had commanded them that they should not do like them.
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Deuteronomy 7:25
The carved images of their gods you shall burn ...
Deuteronomy 17:1
You shall not sacrifice to the Lord your God an...
Deuteronomy 18:12
For whoever does these things is an abomination...
Deuteronomy 23:18
You shall not bring the fee of a prostitute or ...
Deuteronomy 25:16
For all who do such things, all who act dishone...
Deuteronomy 27:15
"'Cursed be the man who makes a carved or cast ...
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2 Kings 17:31
And the Avvites made Nibhaz and Tartak; and the Sepharvites burned their children in the fire to Adrammelech and Anammelech, the gods of Sepharvaim.
Jeremiah 7:31
And they have built the high places of Topheth, which is in the Valley of the Son of Hinnom, to burn their sons and their daughters in the fire, which I did not command, nor did it come into my mind.
Jeremiah 19:5
And have built the high places of Baal to burn their sons in the fire as burnt offerings to Baal, which I did not command or decree, nor did it come into my mind -
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