11 Bible Verses about Abominations, Practices
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And they served him by himself, and them by themselves, and the Egyptians who were eating with him by themselves, for Egyptians {could not dine} with Hebrews, because that [was] a detestable thing to Egyptians.
And Moses said, "To do so [is] not right, because we will sacrifice to Yahweh our God a thing detestable to the Egyptians. Look, [if] we sacrifice before their eyes the thing detestable to the Egyptians, will they not stone us?
"When you come to the land that Yahweh your God [is] giving to you, you must not learn to do like the detestable practices of those nations.
You shall burn the images of their gods with fire; you shall not covet [the] silver or gold [that is] on them, and [so] you take [it] for yourself, so that you are not ensnared by it, for it [is] a detestable thing to Yahweh your God.
You must not do so toward Yahweh your God, because of every detestable thing they have done for their gods Yahweh hates, for even their sons and their daughters they would burn in the fire to their gods.
For everyone doing these [things] [is] detestable to Yahweh, and because of these detestable things Yahweh your God [is] driving them out from {before you}.
For detestable to Yahweh your God [is] everyone who [is] doing such things, everyone who [is] acting dishonestly.
There are six [things] Yahweh hates, and seven [things are] abominations of his soul:
An abomination of Yahweh are lips of deceit, but they who act faithfully [are] his delight.
The sacrifice of the wicked [is] an abomination; how much more when he brings it in divisiveness!
And he said to them, "You are the ones who justify themselves in the sight of men, but God knows your hearts! For [what is] [considered] exalted among men [is] an abomination in the sight of God.
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