“And 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.”
You must not live according to the customs of the nations I am going to drive out before you. Because they did all these things, I abhorred them. The nations that preceded Israel in the land are not neutral alternatives to the covenant community's way of life: God abhorred them for practicing the violations that Leviticus 18–20 prohibits. The abhorrence of God toward the nations' practices is the ground of their expulsion. Israel is warned: follow the same practices and the same abhorrence follows.
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