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Leviticus 18:1–3

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AND the Lord spake unto Moses, saying,
Speak unto the children of Israel, and say unto them, I am the Lord your God.
After the doings of the land of Egypt, wherein ye dwelt, shall ye not do: and after the doings of the land of Canaan, whither I bring you, shall ye not do: neither shall ye walk in their ordinances.
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From verse 2

  1. Exodus 6:7Rank 1 from verse 2
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    7And I will take you to me for a people, and I will be to you a God: and ye shall know that I am the Lord your God, which bringeth you out from under the burdens of the Egyptians.

  2. Leviticus 11:44Rank 2 from verse 2
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    44For I am the Lord your God: ye shall therefore sanctify yourselves, and ye shall be holy; for I am holy: neither shall ye defile yourselves with any manner of creeping thing that creepeth upon the earth.

  3. Ezekiel 20:5Rank 3 from verse 2
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    5¶ And say unto them, Thus saith the Lord God; In the day when I chose Israel, and lifted up mine hand unto the seed of the house of Jacob, and made myself known unto them in the land of Egypt, when I lifted up mine hand unto them, saying, I am the Lord your God;

  4. Leviticus 20:7Rank 4 from verse 2
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    7¶ Sanctify yourselves therefore, and be ye holy: for I am the Lord your God.

  5. Exodus 20:2Rank 5 from verse 2
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    2I am the Lord thy God, which have brought thee out of the land of Egypt, out of the house of bondage.

  6. Ezekiel 20:19–20Rank 6 from verse 2
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    19I am the Lord your God; walk in my statutes, and keep my judgments, and do them;

    20And hallow my sabbaths; and they shall be a sign between me and you, that ye may know that I am the Lord your God.

  7. Ezekiel 20:7Rank 7 from verse 2
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    7Then said I unto them, Cast ye away every man the abominations of his eyes, and defile not yourselves with the idols of Egypt: I am the Lord your God.

  8. Genesis 17:7Rank 8 from verse 2
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    7And I will establish my covenant between me and thee and thy seed after thee in their generations for an everlasting covenant, to be a God unto thee, and to thy seed after thee.

  9. Leviticus 18:4Rank 9 from verse 2
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    4Ye shall do my judgments, and keep mine ordinances, to walk therein: I am the Lord your God.

  10. Leviticus 19:10Rank 10 from verse 2
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    10And thou shalt not glean thy vineyard, neither shalt thou gather every grape of thy vineyard; thou shalt leave them for the poor and stranger: I am the Lord your God.

  11. Leviticus 19:3–4Rank 11 from verse 2
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    3¶ Ye shall fear every man his mother, and his father, and keep my sabbaths: I am the Lord your God.

    4¶ Turn ye not unto idols, nor make to yourselves molten gods: I am the Lord your God.

  12. Leviticus 19:34Rank 12 from verse 2
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    34But the stranger that dwelleth with you shall be unto you as one born among you, and thou shalt love him as thyself; for ye were strangers in the land of Egypt: I am the Lord your God.

  13. Psalms 33:12Rank 13 from verse 2
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    12Blessed is the nation whose God is the Lord; and the people whom he hath chosen for his own inheritance.

From verse 3

  1. Exodus 23:24Rank 1 from verse 3
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    24Thou shalt not bow down to their gods, nor serve them, nor do after their works: but thou shalt utterly overthrow them, and quite break down their images.

  2. Leviticus 20:23Rank 2 from verse 3
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    23And 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.

  3. 1 Peter 4:2–4Rank 3 from verse 3
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    2That he no longer should live the rest of his time in the flesh to the lusts of men, but to the will of God.

    3For the time past of our life may suffice us to have wrought the will of the Gentiles, when we walked in lasciviousness, lusts, excess of wine, revellings, banquetings, and abominable idolatries:

    4Wherein they think it strange that ye run not with them to the same excess of riot, speaking evil of you:

  4. Ezekiel 20:7–8Rank 4 from verse 3
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    7Then said I unto them, Cast ye away every man the abominations of his eyes, and defile not yourselves with the idols of Egypt: I am the Lord your God.

    8But they rebelled against me, and would not hearken unto me: they did not every man cast away the abominations of their eyes, neither did they forsake the idols of Egypt: then I said, I will pour out my fury upon them, to accomplish my anger against them in the midst of the land of Egypt.

  5. Ezekiel 23:8Rank 5 from verse 3
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    8Neither left she her whoredoms brought from Egypt: for in her youth they lay with her, and they bruised the breasts of her virginity, and poured their whoredom upon her.

  6. Deuteronomy 12:30–31Rank 6 from verse 3
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    30Take heed to thyself that thou be not snared by following them, after that they be destroyed from before thee; and that thou inquire not after their gods, saying, How did these nations serve their gods? even so will I do likewise.

    31Thou shalt not do so unto the Lord thy God: for every abomination to the Lord, which he hateth, have they done unto their gods; for even their sons and their daughters they have burnt in the fire to their gods.

  7. Deuteronomy 12:4Rank 7 from verse 3
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    4Ye shall not do so unto the Lord your God.

  8. Ephesians 5:7–11Rank 8 from verse 3
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    7Be not ye therefore partakers with them.

    8For ye were sometimes darkness, but now are ye light in the Lord: walk as children of light:

    9(For the fruit of the Spirit is in all goodness and righteousness and truth;)

    10Proving what is acceptable unto the Lord.

    11And have no fellowship with the unfruitful works of darkness, but rather reprove them.

  9. Jeremiah 10:2–3Rank 9 from verse 3
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    2Thus saith the Lord, Learn not the way of the heathen, and be not dismayed at the signs of heaven; for the heathen are dismayed at them.

    3For the customs of the people are vain: for one cutteth a tree out of the forest, the work of the hands of the workman, with the axe.

  10. Psalms 106:35Rank 10 from verse 3
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    35But were mingled among the heathen, and learned their works.

  11. Romans 12:2Rank 11 from verse 3
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    2And be not conformed to this world: but be ye transformed by the renewing of your mind, that ye may prove what is that good, and acceptable, and perfect, will of God.

  12. Leviticus 18:24–30Rank 12 from verse 3
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    24Defile not ye yourselves in any of these things: for in all these the nations are defiled which I cast out before you:

    25And the land is defiled: therefore I do visit the iniquity thereof upon it, and the land itself vomiteth out her inhabitants.

    26Ye shall therefore keep my statutes and my judgments, and shall not commit any of these abominations; neither any of your own nation, nor any stranger that sojourneth among you:

    27(For all these abominations have the men of the land done, which were before you, and the land is defiled;)

    28That the land spue not you out also, when ye defile it, as it spued out the nations that were before you.

    29For whosoever shall commit any of these abominations, even the souls that commit them shall be cut off from among their people.

    30Therefore shall ye keep mine ordinance, that ye commit not any one of these abominable customs, which were committed before you, and that ye defile not yourselves therein: I am the Lord your God.

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Leviticus 18:1

COMBINED MEANING

spake

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The past tense of speak: uttered or expressed words, addressed someone, or communicated a matter in words.

Meaning drawn from: KJV context and cross-references

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Leviticus 18:2

COMBINED MEANING

speak

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Sense 1: To utter words or articulate sounds, or to use a language. Sense 2: To address or converse with someone. Sense 3: To state, declare, make mention of, or otherwise make a matter known.

Meaning drawn from: Direct Scripture definition · KJV context and cross-references · Webster 1828

COMBINED MEANING

children

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Sons or daughters; descendants; or persons likened to children by age, relation, or character.

Meaning drawn from: KJV context and cross-references

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Israel

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The name given to Jacob and, by extension, his descendants, their nation, or the people so called.

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COMBINED MEANING

say

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Sense 1: To speak, declare, tell, or express. Sense 2: What is said.

Meaning drawn from: KJV context and cross-references

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your

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The possessive form of ye or you, ordinarily plural, marking what belongs to, concerns, proceeds from, or stands in relation to the persons addressed.

Meaning drawn from: KJV context and cross-references

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Leviticus 18:3

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after

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1. Later than or following in time or order. 2. Behind. 3. In pursuit of.

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land

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Sense 1: The ground or earth; a country, territory, or region. Sense 2: To set or come on shore.

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ye

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The second-person plural subject pronoun, referring to the persons being addressed as those who are, do, or receive the stated predicate.

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shall

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An auxiliary verb expressing future action, intention, promise, command, requirement, or determination.

Meaning drawn from: KJV context and cross-references · Webster 1828

COMBINED MEANING

you

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The second-person plural pronoun referring to those being addressed.

Meaning drawn from: KJV context and cross-references · Webster 1828

COMBINED MEANING

neither

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1. Also not; nor, introducing or joining a further negative statement or prohibition. 2. Not either, or none, of the alternatives named, commonly in a neither ... nor construction.

Meaning drawn from: KJV context and cross-references

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in

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1. A preposition marking position, presence, state, circumstance, manner, means, sphere, reference, relation, association, or participation. 2. As an adverb, inward, inside, or into the place or position referred to.

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18:1AND the Lord spake unto Moses, saying,

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18:2Speak unto the children of Israel, and say unto them, I am the Lord your God.

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18:3After the doings of the land of Egypt, wherein ye dwelt, shall ye not do: and after the doings of the land of Canaan, whither I bring you, shall ye not do: neither shall ye walk in their ordinances.

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18:4Ye shall do my judgments, and keep mine ordinances, to walk therein: I am the Lord your God.

18:5Ye shall therefore keep my statutes, and my judgments: which if a man do, he shall live in them: I am the Lord.

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