Thou shalt not bow down to their gods, nor serve them, nor do after their deeds; but thou shalt utterly destroy them, and utterly shatter their statues.

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 customs.

And ye shall not walk in the customs of the nation which I am casting out before you; for all these things have they done, and they became an abomination to me.

take heed to thyself that thou be not ensnared to follow after them, after that they are 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.

When thou art come into the land which Jehovah thy God giveth thee, thou shalt not learn to do according to the abominations of those nations.

Ye shall not do so unto Jehovah your God;

Enter not into the path of the wicked, and go not in the way of evil men:

And he did evil in the sight of Jehovah, but not as the kings of Israel that had been before him.

As I live, saith the Lord Jehovah, Sodom thy sister hath not done, she nor her daughters, as thou hast done, thou and thy daughters!

And I said unto their children in the wilderness, Walk not in the statutes of your fathers, neither keep their ordinances, nor defile yourselves with their idols.

For Jehovah spoke thus to me with a strong hand, and he instructed me not to walk in the way of this people, saying,

all things therefore, whatever they may tell you, do and keep. But do not after their works, for they say and do not,

But lo, if he have begotten a son that seeth all his father's sins which he hath done, and considereth, and doeth not such like:

Be not ye therefore like them, for your Father knows of what things ye have need before ye beg anything of him.

This I say therefore, and testify in the Lord, that ye should no longer walk as the rest of the nations walk in the vanity of their mind,