Deuteronomy 18:9

9 When you enter the land the Lord your God is giving you, don't learn to do the hateful things the other nations do.

Deuteronomy 18:9 Meaning and Commentary

Deuteronomy 18:9

When thou art come into the land which the Lord thy God giveth
thee
The land of Canaan, often thus described, to express the goodness of God in bestowing it on them, as a mere favour of his, without any desert of theirs; and so typical of the heavenly Canaan, or eternal life, which is the free gift of God through Christ:

thou shall not learn to do after the abominations of these nations;
the seven nations which before inhabited it; they might learn, as Jarchi observes, to know how corrupt their works were, and to show to their children, that they might not do so; but they were not to learn them so as to practise them, but to have them in the utmost abhorrence, as being abominable to God, and which should be so to them; some of which are as follow.

Deuteronomy 18:9 In-Context

7 he may serve the Lord his God. He will be like his fellow Levites who serve there before the Lord.
8 They all will have an equal share of the food. That is separate from what he has received from the sale of family possessions.
9 When you enter the land the Lord your God is giving you, don't learn to do the hateful things the other nations do.
10 Don't let anyone among you offer a son or daughter as a sacrifice in the fire. Don't let anyone use magic or witchcraft, or try to explain the meaning of signs.
11 Don't let anyone try to control others with magic, and don't let them be mediums or try to talk with the spirits of dead people.
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