Leviticus 18:27
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For the men who were in the land before you committed all these abominations, and the land has become defiled.
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Do not defile yourselves by any of these practices, for by all these things the nations I am driving out before you have defiled themselves.
Thus they were haughty and committed abominations before Me. Therefore I removed them, as you have seen.
There were even male shrine prostitutes in the land. They imitated all the abominations of the nations the LORD had driven out before the Israelites.
And he did evil in the sight of the LORD by following the abominations of the nations that the LORD had driven out before the Israelites.
so that they cannot teach you to do all the detestable things they do for their gods, and so cause you to sin against the LORD your God.
Furthermore, all the leaders of the priests and the people multiplied their unfaithful deeds, following all the abominations of the nations, and they defiled the house of the LORD, which He had consecrated in Jerusalem.
‘Cursed is the man who makes a carved idol or molten image—an abomination to the LORD, the work of the hands of a craftsman—and sets it up in secret.’ And let all the people say, ‘Amen!’
One man commits an abomination with his neighbor’s wife; another wickedly defiles his daughter-in-law; and yet another violates his sister, his own father’s daughter.
You must not bring the wages of a prostitute, whether female or male, into the house of the LORD your God to fulfill any vow, because both are detestable to the LORD your God.
Instead, he walked in the ways of the kings of Israel and even sacrificed his son in the fire, according to the abominations of the nations that the LORD had driven out before the Israelites.