Leviticus 18:24
Context18:24 “‘Do not defile yourselves with any of these things, for the nations which I am about to drive out before you 1 have been defiled with all these things.
Deuteronomy 20:18
Context20:18 so that they cannot teach you all the abhorrent ways they worship 2 their gods, causing you to sin against the Lord your God.
Deuteronomy 23:18
Context23:18 You must never bring the pay of a female prostitute 3 or the wage of a male prostitute 4 into the temple of the Lord your God in fulfillment of any vow, for both of these are abhorrent to the Lord your God.
Deuteronomy 25:16
Context25:16 For anyone who acts dishonestly in these ways is abhorrent 5 to the Lord your God.
Deuteronomy 27:15
Context27:15 ‘Cursed is the one 6 who makes a carved or metal image – something abhorrent 7 to the Lord, the work of the craftsman 8 – and sets it up in a secret place.’ Then all the people will say, ‘Amen!’ 9
Deuteronomy 27:1
Context27:1 Then Moses and the elders of Israel commanded the people: “Pay attention to all the commandments 10 I am giving 11 you today.
Deuteronomy 14:24
Context14:24 When he 12 blesses you, if the 13 place where he chooses to locate his name is distant,
Deuteronomy 14:2
Context14:2 For you are a people holy 14 to the Lord your God. He 15 has chosen you to be his people, prized 16 above all others on the face of the earth.
Deuteronomy 16:3
Context16:3 You must not eat any yeast with it; for seven days you must eat bread made without yeast, symbolic of affliction, for you came out of Egypt hurriedly. You must do this so you will remember for the rest of your life the day you came out of the land of Egypt.
Deuteronomy 21:2
Context21:2 your elders and judges must go out and measure how far it is to the cities in the vicinity of the corpse. 17
Deuteronomy 21:2
Context21:2 your elders and judges must go out and measure how far it is to the cities in the vicinity of the corpse. 18
Deuteronomy 1:14
Context1:14 You replied to me that what I had said to you was good.
Ezekiel 16:50
Context16:50 They were haughty and practiced abominable deeds before me. Therefore when I saw it I removed them.
Ezekiel 22:11
Context22:11 One 19 commits an abominable act with his neighbor’s wife; another obscenely defiles his daughter-in-law; another violates 20 his sister – his father’s daughter 21 – within you.
Hosea 9:10
Context9:10 When I found Israel, it was like finding grapes in the wilderness.
I viewed your ancestors 22 like an early fig on a fig tree in its first season.
Then they came to Baal-Peor and they dedicated themselves to shame –
they became as detestable as what they loved.
[18:24] 1 tn Heb “which I am sending away (Piel participle of שָׁלַח [shalakh, “to send”]) from your faces.” The rendering here takes the participle as anticipatory of the coming conquest events.
[20:18] 2 tn Heb “to do according to all their abominations which they do for their gods.”
[23:18] 3 tn Here the Hebrew term זוֹנָה (zonah) refers to a noncultic (i.e., “secular”) female prostitute; see note on the phrase “sacred prostitute” in v. 17.
[23:18] 4 tn Heb “of a dog.” This is the common Hebrew term for a noncultic (i.e., “secular”) male prostitute. See note on the phrase “sacred male prostitute” in v. 17.
[25:16] 5 tn The Hebrew term translated here “abhorrent” (תּוֹעֵבָה, to’evah) speaks of attitudes and/or behaviors so vile as to be reprehensible to a holy God. See note on the word “abhorrent” in Deut 7:25.
[27:15] 6 tn Heb “man,” but in a generic sense here.
[27:15] 7 tn The Hebrew term translated here “abhorrent” (תּוֹעֵבָה, to’evah) speaks of attitudes and/or behaviors so vile as to be reprehensible to a holy God. See note on the word “abhorrent” in Deut 7:25.
[27:15] 8 tn Heb “craftsman’s hands.”
[27:15] 9 tn Or “So be it!” The term is an affirmation expressing agreement with the words of the Levites.
[27:1] 10 tn Heb “the whole commandment.” See note at 5:31.
[27:1] 11 tn Heb “commanding”; NAB “which I enjoin on you today” (likewise in v. 10).
[14:24] 12 tn Heb “the
[14:24] 13 tn The Hebrew text includes “way is so far from you that you are unable to carry it because the.” These words have not been included in the translation for stylistic reasons, because they are redundant.
[14:2] 15 tn Heb “The
[14:2] 16 tn Or “treasured.” The Hebrew term סְגֻלָּה (sÿgullah) describes Israel as God’s choice people, those whom he elected and who are most precious to him (cf. Exod 19:4-6; Deut 14:2; 26:18; 1 Chr 29:3; Ps 135:4; Eccl 2:8 Mal 3:17). See E. Carpenter, NIDOTTE 3:224.
[21:2] 17 tn Heb “surrounding the slain [one].”
[21:2] 18 tn Heb “surrounding the slain [one].”
[22:11] 20 tn The verb is the same one used in verse 10b and suggests forcible sexual violation of the woman.
[22:11] 21 sn Sexual relations with one’s half-sister may be primarily in view here. See Lev 18:9; 20:17.
[9:10] 22 tn Heb “fathers”; a number of more recent English versions use the more general “ancestors” here.