Ezra 9:1
A Prayer of Ezra
9:1 Now when these things had been completed, the leaders approached me and said, “The people of Israel, the priests, and the Levites have not separated themselves from the local residents who practice detestable things similar to those of the Canaanites, the Hittites, the Perizzites, the Jebusites, the Ammonites, the Moabites, the Egyptians, and the Amorites.
Leviticus 18:24-30
Warning against the Abominations of the Nations
18:24 “‘Do not defile yourselves with any of these things, for the nations which I am about to drive out before you have been defiled with all these things.
18:25 Therefore the land has become unclean and I have brought the punishment for its iniquity upon it, so that the land has vomited out its inhabitants.
18:26 You yourselves must obey my statutes and my regulations and must not do any of these abominations, both the native citizen and the resident foreigner in your midst,
18:27 for the people who were in the land before you have done all these abominations, and the land has become unclean.
18:28 So do not make the land vomit you out because you defile it just as it has vomited out the nations that were before you.
18:29 For if anyone does any of these abominations, the persons who do them will be cut off from the midst of their people.
18:30 You must obey my charge to not practice any of the abominable statutes that have been done before you, so that you do not defile yourselves by them. I am the Lord your God.’”
Deuteronomy 12:31
12:31 You must not worship the
Lord your God the way they do!
For everything that is abhorrent
to him,
everything he hates, they have done when worshiping their gods. They even burn up their sons and daughters before their gods!
Deuteronomy 18:12
18:12 Whoever does these things is abhorrent to the
Lord and because of these detestable things
the
Lord your God is about to drive them out
from before you.
Deuteronomy 18:2
18:2 They
will have no inheritance in the midst of their fellow Israelites;
the
Lord alone is their inheritance, just as he had told them.
Deuteronomy 33:2
33:2 He said:
A Historical Review
The Lord came from Sinai
and revealed himself to Israel from Seir.
He appeared in splendor from Mount Paran,
and came forth with ten thousand holy ones.
With his right hand he gave a fiery law to them.