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The native-born and the foreigners residing among you must not do any of these detestable things,<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/nlt/leviticus/18.htm">New Living Translation</a></span><br />You must obey all my decrees and regulations. You must not commit any of these detestable sins. This applies both to native-born Israelites and to the foreigners living among you.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/esv/leviticus/18.htm">English Standard Version</a></span><br />But you shall keep my statutes and my rules and do none of these abominations, either the native or the stranger who sojourns among you<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/bsb/leviticus/18.htm">Berean Standard Bible</a></span><br />But you are to keep My statutes and ordinances, and you must not commit any of these abominations—neither your native-born nor the foreigner who lives among you.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/kjv/leviticus/18.htm">King James Bible</a></span><br />Ye shall therefore keep my statutes and my judgments, and shall not commit <i>any</i> of these abominations; <i>neither</i> any of your own nation, nor any stranger that sojourneth among you:<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/nkjv/leviticus/18.htm">New King James Version</a></span><br />You shall therefore keep My statutes and My judgments, and shall not commit <i>any</i> of these abominations, <i>either</i> any of your own nation or any stranger who dwells among you<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/nasb_/leviticus/18.htm">New American Standard Bible</a></span><br />But as for you, you are to keep My statutes and My judgments, and you shall not do any of these abominations, <i>neither</i> the native, nor the stranger who resides among you<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/nasb/leviticus/18.htm">NASB 1995</a></span><br />But as for you, you are to keep My statutes and My judgments and shall not do any of these abominations, neither the native, nor the alien who sojourns among you<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/nasb77/leviticus/18.htm">NASB 1977 </a></span><br />‘But as for you, you are to keep My statutes and My judgments, and shall not do any of these abominations, <i>neither</i> the native, nor the alien who sojourns among you<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/lsb/leviticus/18.htm">Legacy Standard Bible </a></span><br />But as for you, you shall keep My statutes and My judgments and shall not do any of these abominations, <i>neither</i> the native nor the sojourner who sojourns among you<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/amp/leviticus/18.htm">Amplified Bible</a></span><br />But as for you, you are to keep My statutes and My judgments (precepts) and shall not commit any of these repulsive acts, neither the native-born, nor the stranger who lives temporarily among you<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/csb/leviticus/18.htm">Christian Standard Bible</a></span><br />But you are to keep my statutes and ordinances. You must not commit any of these detestable acts—not the native or the alien who resides among you.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/hcsb/leviticus/18.htm">Holman Christian Standard Bible</a></span><br />But you are to keep My statutes and ordinances. You must not commit any of these detestable things—not the native or the foreigner who lives among you. <span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/asv/leviticus/18.htm">American Standard Version</a></span><br />Ye therefore shall keep my statutes and mine ordinances, and shall not do any of these abominations; neither the home-born, nor the stranger that sojourneth among you;<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/erv/leviticus/18.htm">English Revised Version</a></span><br />Ye therefore shall keep my statutes and my judgments, and shall not do any of these abominations; neither the homeborn, nor the stranger that sojourneth among you:<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/gwt/leviticus/18.htm">GOD'S WORD® Translation</a></span><br />Live by my standards, and obey my rules. Neither you nor any foreigner should ever do any of these disgusting things.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/isv/leviticus/18.htm">International Standard Version</a></span><br />"Therefore, keep my statutes and ordinances. You are not to do any of these detestable things—this applies to the native born and the resident alien who lives among you— <span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/msb/leviticus/18.htm">Majority Standard Bible</a></span><br />But you are to keep My statutes and ordinances, and you must not commit any of these abominations?neither your native-born nor the foreigner who lives among you.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/net/leviticus/18.htm">NET Bible</a></span><br />You yourselves must obey my statutes and my regulations and must not do any of these abominations, both the native citizen and the resident foreigner in your midst,<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/nheb/leviticus/18.htm">New Heart English Bible</a></span><br />You therefore shall keep my statutes and my ordinances, and shall not do any of these abominations; neither the native-born, nor the stranger who lives as a foreigner among you;<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/wbt/leviticus/18.htm">Webster's Bible Translation</a></span><br />Ye shall therefore keep my statutes and my judgments, and shall not commit any of these abominations; neither any of your own nation, nor any stranger that sojourneth among you.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/web/leviticus/18.htm">World English Bible</a></span><br />You therefore shall keep my statutes and my ordinances, and shall not do any of these abominations; neither the native-born, nor the stranger who lives as a foreigner among you <div class="vheading2"><b>Literal Translations</b></div><span class="versiontext"><a href="/lsv/leviticus/18.htm">Literal Standard Version</a></span><br />And you have kept My statutes and My judgments, and do not do [any] of all these abominations, the native and the sojourner who is sojourning in your midst,<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/ylt/leviticus/18.htm">Young's Literal Translation</a></span><br /> and ye -- ye have kept My statutes and My judgments, and do not any of all these abominations, the native and the sojourner who is sojourning in your midst,<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/slt/leviticus/18.htm">Smith's Literal Translation</a></span><br />And ye watched these my laws, and my judgments, and ye shall not do from all of these abominations, the native and the stranger sojourning in your midst:<div class="vheading2"><b>Catholic Translations</b></div><span class="versiontext"><a href="/drb/leviticus/18.htm">Douay-Rheims Bible</a></span><br />Keep ye my ordinances and my judgments, and do not any of these abominations: neither any of your own nation, nor any stranger that sojourneth among you. <span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/cpdv/leviticus/18.htm">Catholic Public Domain Version</a></span><br />Keep my ordinances and judgments, and do not do any of these abominations: the native born, as well as the settler, who sojourns among you.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/nabre/leviticus/18.htm">New American Bible</a></span><br />You, however, must keep my statutes and decrees, avoiding all these abominations, both the natives and the aliens resident among you—<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/nrsvce/leviticus/18.htm">New Revised Standard Version</a></span><br />But you shall keep my statutes and my ordinances and commit none of these abominations, either the citizen or the alien who resides among you<div class="vheading2"><b>Translations from Aramaic</b></div><span class="versiontext"><a href="/lamsa/leviticus/18.htm">Lamsa Bible</a></span><br />You shall therefore keep my statutes and my judgments, and shall not commit any of these abominations; neither you nor any proselytes who sojourn among you<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/hpbt/leviticus/18.htm">Peshitta Holy Bible Translated</a></span><br />Keep my covenants and my judgments and you shall not do one of all of these sins, neither you, nor those who are converted to me who dwell among you:<div class="vheading2"><b>OT Translations</b></div><span class="versiontext"><a href="/jps/leviticus/18.htm">JPS Tanakh 1917</a></span><br />Ye therefore shall keep My statutes and Mine ordinances, and shall not do any of these abominations; neither the home-born, nor the stranger that sojourneth among you--<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/sep/leviticus/18.htm">Brenton Septuagint Translation</a></span><br />And ye shall keep all my statutes and all my ordinances, and ye shall do none of these abominations; neither the native, nor the stranger that joins himself with you:<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/parallel/leviticus/18-26.htm">Additional Translations ...</a></span></div></div></div><div id="centbox"><div class="padcent"><a name="audio" id="audio"></a><div class="vheadingv"><b>Audio Bible</b></div><iframe width="100%" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/NWs_V1RyMFo?start=4921" title="YouTube video player" frameborder="0" allow="accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share" allowfullscreen></iframe><span class="p"><br /><br /><br /></span><div class="vheadingv"><b>Context</b></div><span class="hdg"><a href="/bsb/leviticus/18.htm">Unlawful Sexual Relations</a></span><br>…<span class="reftext">25</span>Even the land has become defiled, so I am punishing it for its sin, and the land will vomit out its inhabitants. <span class="reftext">26</span><span class="highl"><a href="/hebrew/859.htm" title="859: ’at·tem (Pro-2mp) -- You (masc. sing.). ">But you</a> <a href="/hebrew/853.htm" title="853: ’eṯ- (DirObjM) -- Apparent contracted from 'owth in the demonstrative sense of entity; properly, self."></a> <a href="/hebrew/8104.htm" title="8104: ū·šə·mar·tem (Conj-w:: V-Qal-ConjPerf-2mp) -- To keep, watch, preserve. A primitive root; properly, to hedge about, i.e. Guard; generally, to protect, attend to, etc.">are to keep</a> <a href="/hebrew/2708.htm" title="2708: ḥuq·qō·ṯay (N-fpc:: 1cs) -- Something prescribed, an enactment, statute. Feminine of choq, and meaning substantially the same.">My statutes</a> <a href="/hebrew/853.htm" title="853: wə·’eṯ- (Conj-w:: DirObjM) -- Apparent contracted from 'owth in the demonstrative sense of entity; properly, self."></a> <a href="/hebrew/4941.htm" title="4941: miš·pā·ṭay (N-mpc:: 1cs) -- Judgment. ">and ordinances,</a> <a href="/hebrew/3808.htm" title="3808: wə·lō (Conj-w:: Adv-NegPrt) -- Not. Or lowi; or loh; a primitive particle; not; by implication, no; often used with other particles.">and you must not</a> <a href="/hebrew/6213.htm" title="6213: ṯa·‘ă·śū (V-Qal-Imperf-2mp) -- To do, make. A primitive root; to do or make, in the broadest sense and widest application.">commit</a> <a href="/hebrew/3605.htm" title="3605: mik·kōl (Prep-m:: N-msc) -- The whole, all. Or kowl; from kalal; properly, the whole; hence, all, any or every.">any</a> <a href="/hebrew/428.htm" title="428: hā·’êl·leh (Art:: Pro-cp) -- These. Prolonged from 'el; these or those.">of these</a> <a href="/hebrew/8441.htm" title="8441: hat·tō·w·‘ê·ḇōṯ (Art:: N-fp) -- Or tonebah; feminine active participle of ta'ab; properly, something disgusting, i.e. an abhorrence; especially idolatry or an idol.">abominations—</a> <a href="/hebrew/249.htm" title="249: hā·’ez·rāḥ (Art:: N-ms) -- A native. From zarach; a spontaneous growth, i.e. Native.">neither your native-born</a> <a href="/hebrew/1616.htm" title="1616: wə·hag·gêr (Conj-w, Art:: N-ms) -- A sojourner. Or geyr; from guwr; properly, a guest; by implication, a foreigner.">nor the foreigner</a> <a href="/hebrew/1481.htm" title="1481: hag·gār (Art:: V-Qal-Prtcpl-ms) -- A primitive root; properly, to turn aside from the road, i.e. Sojourn; also to shrink, fear; also to gather for hostility.">who lives</a> <a href="/hebrew/8432.htm" title="8432: bə·ṯō·wḵ·ḵem (Prep-b:: N-msc:: 2mp) -- Midst. From an unused root meaning to sever; a bisection, i.e. the centre.">among you.</a> </span><span class="reftext">27</span>For the men who were in the land before you committed all these abominations, and the land has become defiled.…<div class="cred"><a href="//berean.bible">Berean Standard Bible</a> · <a href="//berean.bible/downloads.htm">Download</a></div><span class="p"><br /><br /></span><a name="crossref" id="crossref"></a><div class="vheading">Cross References</div><div id="crf"><span class="crossverse"><a href="/deuteronomy/18-9.htm">Deuteronomy 18:9-12</a></span><br />When you enter the land that the LORD your God is giving you, do not imitate the detestable ways of the nations there. / Let no one be found among you who sacrifices his son or daughter in the fire, practices divination or conjury, interprets omens, practices sorcery, / casts spells, consults a medium or spiritist, or inquires of the dead. ...<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="/leviticus/20-22.htm">Leviticus 20:22-23</a></span><br />You are therefore to keep all My statutes and ordinances, so that the land where I am bringing you to live will not vomit you out. / You must not follow the statutes of the nations I am driving out before you. Because they did all these things, I abhorred them.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="/deuteronomy/12-30.htm">Deuteronomy 12:30-31</a></span><br />be careful not to be ensnared by their ways after they have been destroyed before you. Do not inquire about their gods, asking, “How do these nations serve their gods? I will do likewise.” / You must not worship the LORD your God in this way, because they practice for their gods every abomination which the LORD hates. They even burn their sons and daughters in the fire as sacrifices to their gods.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="/ezekiel/20-18.htm">Ezekiel 20:18-19</a></span><br />In the wilderness I said to their children: ‘Do not walk in the statutes of your fathers or keep their ordinances or defile yourselves with their idols. / I am the LORD your God; walk in My statutes, keep My ordinances, and practice them.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="/deuteronomy/7-1.htm">Deuteronomy 7:1-6</a></span><br />When the LORD your God brings you into the land that you are entering to possess, and He drives out before you many nations—the Hittites, Girgashites, Amorites, Canaanites, Perizzites, Hivites, and Jebusites, seven nations larger and stronger than you— / and when the LORD your God has delivered them over to you to defeat them, then you must devote them to complete destruction. Make no treaty with them and show them no mercy. / Do not intermarry with them. Do not give your daughters to their sons or take their daughters for your sons, ...<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="/1_kings/14-24.htm">1 Kings 14:24</a></span><br />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.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="/2_kings/17-8.htm">2 Kings 17:8</a></span><br />and walked in the customs of the nations that the LORD had driven out before the Israelites, as well as in the practices introduced by the kings of Israel.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="/2_kings/21-2.htm">2 Kings 21:2</a></span><br />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.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="/2_chronicles/33-2.htm">2 Chronicles 33:2</a></span><br />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.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="/jeremiah/10-2.htm">Jeremiah 10:2-3</a></span><br />This is what the LORD says: “Do not learn the ways of the nations or be terrified by the signs in the heavens, though the nations themselves are terrified by them. / For the customs of the peoples are worthless; they cut down a tree from the forest; it is shaped with a chisel by the hands of a craftsman.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="/romans/1-24.htm">Romans 1:24-27</a></span><br />Therefore God gave them over in the desires of their hearts to impurity for the dishonoring of their bodies with one another. / They exchanged the truth of God for a lie, and worshiped and served the creature rather than the Creator, who is forever worthy of praise! Amen. / For this reason God gave them over to dishonorable passions. Even their women exchanged natural relations for unnatural ones. ...<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="/1_corinthians/6-9.htm">1 Corinthians 6:9-11</a></span><br />Do you not know that the wicked will not inherit the kingdom of God? Do not be deceived: Neither the sexually immoral, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor men who submit to or perform homosexual acts, / nor thieves, nor the greedy, nor drunkards, nor verbal abusers, nor swindlers, will inherit the kingdom of God. / And that is what some of you were. But you were washed, you were sanctified, you were justified, in the name of the Lord Jesus Christ and by the Spirit of our God.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="/ephesians/5-3.htm">Ephesians 5:3-7</a></span><br />But among you, as is proper among the saints, there must not be even a hint of sexual immorality, or of any kind of impurity, or of greed. / Nor should there be obscenity, foolish talk, or crude joking, which are out of character, but rather thanksgiving. / For of this you can be sure: No immoral, impure, or greedy person (that is, an idolater) has any inheritance in the kingdom of Christ and of God. ...<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="/colossians/3-5.htm">Colossians 3:5-6</a></span><br />Put to death, therefore, the components of your earthly nature: sexual immorality, impurity, lust, evil desires, and greed, which is idolatry. / Because of these, the wrath of God is coming on the sons of disobedience.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="/1_thessalonians/4-3.htm">1 Thessalonians 4:3-5</a></span><br />For it is God’s will that you should be holy: You must abstain from sexual immorality; / each of you must know how to control his own body in holiness and honor, / not in lustful passion like the Gentiles who do not know God;</div><span class="p"><br /><br /></span><a name="tsk" id="tsk"><div class="vheading">Treasury of Scripture</div><p class="tsk2">You shall therefore keep my statutes and my judgments, and shall not commit any of these abominations; neither any of your own nation, nor any stranger that sojournes among you:</p><p class="hdg">keep</p><p class="tskverse"><b><a href="/leviticus/18-5.htm">Leviticus 18:5,30</a></b></br> Ye shall therefore keep my statutes, and my judgments: which if a man do, he shall live in them: I <i>am</i> the LORD… </p><p class="tskverse"><b><a href="/deuteronomy/4-1.htm">Deuteronomy 4:1,2,40</a></b></br> Now therefore hearken, O Israel, unto the statutes and unto the judgments, which I teach you, for to do <i>them</i>, that ye may live, and go in and possess the land which the LORD God of your fathers giveth you… </p><p class="tskverse"><b><a href="/deuteronomy/12-32.htm">Deuteronomy 12:32</a></b></br> What thing soever I command you, observe to do it: thou shalt not add thereto, nor diminish from it.</p><p class="hdg">nor any stranger</p><p class="tskverse"><b><a href="/leviticus/17-8.htm">Leviticus 17:8,10</a></b></br> And thou shalt say unto them, Whatsoever man <i>there be</i> of the house of Israel, or of the strangers which sojourn among you, that offereth a burnt offering or sacrifice, … </p><div class="vheading">Jump to Previous</div><a href="/revelation/17-5.htm">Abominations</a> <a href="/leviticus/17-15.htm">Alien</a> <a href="/leviticus/17-13.htm">Aliens</a> <a href="/leviticus/18-9.htm">Birth</a> <a href="/leviticus/6-2.htm">Commit</a> <a href="/leviticus/18-5.htm">Decisions</a> <a href="/leviticus/18-5.htm">Decrees</a> <a href="/leviticus/18-22.htm">Detestable</a> <a href="/leviticus/18-22.htm">Disgusting</a> <a href="/leviticus/18-17.htm">Either</a> <a href="/leviticus/17-15.htm">Foreigner</a> <a href="/leviticus/17-15.htm">Home-Born</a> <a href="/leviticus/18-2.htm">Israelites</a> <a href="/leviticus/18-5.htm">Judgments</a> <a href="/leviticus/10-11.htm">Laws</a> <a href="/exodus/34-10.htm">Nation</a> <a href="/leviticus/17-15.htm">Native</a> <a href="/leviticus/17-15.htm">Native-Born</a> <a href="/leviticus/18-5.htm">Observe</a> <a href="/leviticus/18-5.htm">Ordinances</a> <a href="/leviticus/17-12.htm">Others</a> <a href="/leviticus/18-5.htm">Rules</a> <a href="/leviticus/17-12.htm">Sojourneth</a> <a href="/leviticus/17-12.htm">Sojourns</a> <a href="/leviticus/18-5.htm">Statutes</a> <a href="/leviticus/17-15.htm">Stranger</a><div class="vheading2">Jump to Next</div><a href="/leviticus/18-27.htm">Abominations</a> <a href="/leviticus/19-10.htm">Alien</a> <a href="/leviticus/19-34.htm">Aliens</a> <a href="/leviticus/22-27.htm">Birth</a> <a href="/leviticus/18-29.htm">Commit</a> <a href="/leviticus/19-35.htm">Decisions</a> <a href="/leviticus/19-37.htm">Decrees</a> <a href="/leviticus/18-29.htm">Detestable</a> <a href="/leviticus/18-27.htm">Disgusting</a> <a href="/leviticus/20-19.htm">Either</a> <a href="/leviticus/19-10.htm">Foreigner</a> <a href="/leviticus/19-34.htm">Home-Born</a> <a href="/leviticus/21-24.htm">Israelites</a> <a href="/leviticus/19-37.htm">Judgments</a> <a href="/leviticus/19-37.htm">Laws</a> <a href="/leviticus/18-28.htm">Nation</a> <a href="/leviticus/19-34.htm">Native</a> <a href="/leviticus/19-34.htm">Native-Born</a> <a href="/leviticus/19-3.htm">Observe</a> <a href="/leviticus/19-37.htm">Ordinances</a> <a href="/numbers/1-47.htm">Others</a> <a href="/leviticus/19-37.htm">Rules</a> <a href="/leviticus/19-33.htm">Sojourneth</a> <a href="/leviticus/19-33.htm">Sojourns</a> <a href="/leviticus/18-30.htm">Statutes</a> <a href="/leviticus/19-10.htm">Stranger</a><div class="vheading2">Leviticus 18</div><span class="reftext">1. </span><span class="outlinetext"><a href="/leviticus/18-1.htm">Unlawful marriages and unlawful lusts</a></span><br></div></div><div id="mdd"><div align="center"><div class="bot2"><table align="center" width="100%"><tr><td><div align="center"> <script id="3d27ed63fc4348d5b062c4527ae09445"> (new Image()).src = 'https://capi.connatix.com/tr/si?token=51ce25d5-1a8c-424a-8695-4bd48c750f35&cid=3a9f82d0-4344-4f8d-ac0c-e1a0eb43a405'; 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The statutes and ordinances refer to the specific laws and decrees that God has provided to guide the moral, ceremonial, and civil life of His people. In the broader biblical context, these laws are part of the Mosaic Covenant, which is foundational for Israel's identity and relationship with God. The call to keep these laws is a recurring theme throughout the Pentateuch, underscoring the holiness and distinctiveness expected of God's people (<a href="/exodus/19-5.htm">Exodus 19:5-6</a>, <a href="/deuteronomy/6.htm">Deuteronomy 6:1-3</a>).<p><b>and you must not commit any of these abominations</b><br>The term "abominations" refers to practices that are detestable to God, often associated with idolatry and sexual immorality. In <a href="/leviticus/18.htm">Leviticus 18</a>, these abominations include various prohibited sexual relations, which are seen as violations of the natural order established by God. The use of the word "abominations" highlights the severity of these sins and their incompatibility with the holiness required of God's people. This prohibition is not only a moral directive but also a means of setting Israel apart from the surrounding nations, who engaged in such practices (<a href="/leviticus/18-24.htm">Leviticus 18:24-25</a>).<p><b>neither your native-born nor the foreigner who lives among you</b><br>This phrase indicates that God's laws are to be upheld by both Israelites and non-Israelites residing in the land. The inclusion of "the foreigner" underscores the universal application of God's moral standards and the expectation that all who dwell in the community of God's people adhere to His laws. This reflects the inclusive nature of God's covenant, which, while initially given to Israel, has implications for all humanity. The presence of foreigners in Israel is acknowledged throughout the Old Testament, and they are often called to observe the same laws as the Israelites (<a href="/exodus/12-49.htm">Exodus 12:49</a>, <a href="/numbers/15-15.htm">Numbers 15:15-16</a>). This principle foreshadows the New Testament teaching that in Christ, there is no distinction between Jew and Gentile (<a href="/galatians/3-28.htm">Galatians 3:28</a>).<div class="vheading2">Persons / Places / Events</div>1. <b><a href="/topical/m/moses.htm">Moses</a></b><br>The prophet and leader of the Israelites who received the laws from God on Mount Sinai, including the statutes and ordinances mentioned in Leviticus.<br><br>2. <b><a href="/topical/i/israelites.htm">Israelites</a></b><br>The chosen people of God, who were given the laws to set them apart from other nations and to guide them in holy living.<br><br>3. <b><a href="/topical/f/foreigners.htm">Foreigners</a></b><br>Non-Israelites living among the Israelites, who were also expected to adhere to God's laws, highlighting the universal moral standards expected by God.<br><br>4. <b><a href="/topical/c/canaan.htm">Canaan</a></b><br>The land into which the Israelites were entering, where the practices of the surrounding nations were considered abominable by God.<br><br>5. <b><a href="/topical/g/god.htm">God</a></b><br>The divine lawgiver who establishes moral and ceremonial laws for His people, emphasizing holiness and separation from sinful practices.<div class="vheading2">Teaching Points</div><b><a href="/topical/h/holiness_and_obedience.htm">Holiness and Obedience</a></b><br>God calls His people to a standard of holiness that requires obedience to His statutes and ordinances. This involves a conscious decision to live differently from the surrounding culture.<br><br><b><a href="/topical/u/universal_moral_standards.htm">Universal Moral Standards</a></b><br>The inclusion of foreigners in the command to avoid abominations indicates that God's moral standards are universal and not limited to a specific ethnic group.<br><br><b><a href="/topical/c/cultural_distinctiveness.htm">Cultural Distinctiveness</a></b><br>Believers are called to be distinct from the world, not adopting practices that are contrary to God's commands, which requires discernment and commitment.<br><br><b><a href="/topical/c/community_responsibility.htm">Community Responsibility</a></b><br>The command applies to both individuals and the community, emphasizing collective responsibility in maintaining holiness and obedience to God.<br><br><b><a href="/topical/r/relevance_of_old_testament_laws.htm">Relevance of Old Testament Laws</a></b><br>While some ceremonial laws are fulfilled in Christ, the moral principles behind God's statutes remain relevant for guiding Christian conduct today.<div class="vheading2">Lists and Questions</div><a href="/top10/lessons_from_leviticus_18.htm">Top 10 Lessons from Leviticus 18</a><span class="p"><br /><br /></span><a href="/q/how_does_ezekiel_20_25_align_with_god's_justice.htm">Ezekiel 20:25 mentions God giving Israel 'statutes that were not good'; how does this align with the concept of a just and unchanging God elsewhere in Scripture?</a><span class="p"><br /><br /></span><a href="/q/how_does_'sevenfold'_fit_god's_mercy.htm">(Leviticus 26:18) How does the repeated 'sevenfold' punishment align with other biblical portrayals of God's mercy and justice?</a><span class="p"><br /><br /></span><a href="/q/why_does_leviticus_20_13_condemn_homosexuality.htm">Why does Leviticus 20:13 prescribe death for homosexuality when modern views see sexual orientation as inherent, raising justice and compassion concerns?</a><span class="p"><br /><br /></span><a href="/q/what_are_laws_and_decrees.htm">What are laws, commands, decrees, and statutes?</a><a name="commentary" id="commentary"></a><div class="vheading2"><a href="/commentaries/ellicott/leviticus/18.htm">Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers</a></div>(26) <span class= "bld">Ye shall therefore keep my statutes.</span>--As the perpetration of the above named abominations entailed such disastrous consequences both to the land and to its inhabitants, the strict observance of the Divine statutes is enjoined upon all alike, whether they be Israelites by race or strangers who took up their abode amongst them and joined the Jewish community. (See <a href="/leviticus/17-9.htm" title="And brings it not to the door of the tabernacle of the congregation, to offer it to the LORD; even that man shall be cut off from among his people.">Leviticus 17:9</a>.)<span class= "bld"><p><span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/commentaries/leviticus/18-26.htm">Parallel Commentaries ...</a></span><span class="p"><br /><br /><br /></span><a name="lexicon" id="lexicon"></a><div class="vheading">Hebrew</div><span class="word">But you</span><br /><span class="heb">אַתֶּ֗ם</span> <span class="translit">(’at·tem)</span><br /><span class="parse">Pronoun - second person masculine plural<br /></span><span class="str"><a href="/hebrew/strongs_859.htm">Strong's 859: </a> </span><span class="str2">Thou and thee, ye and you</span><br /><br /><span class="word">are to keep</span><br /><span class="heb">וּשְׁמַרְתֶּ֣ם</span> <span class="translit">(ū·šə·mar·tem)</span><br /><span class="parse">Conjunctive waw | Verb - Qal - Conjunctive perfect - second person masculine plural<br /></span><span class="str"><a href="/hebrew/strongs_8104.htm">Strong's 8104: </a> </span><span class="str2">To hedge about, guard, to protect, attend to</span><br /><br /><span class="word">My statutes</span><br /><span class="heb">חֻקֹּתַי֙</span> <span class="translit">(ḥuq·qō·ṯay)</span><br /><span class="parse">Noun - feminine plural construct | first person common singular<br /></span><span class="str"><a href="/hebrew/strongs_2708.htm">Strong's 2708: </a> </span><span class="str2">Something prescribed, an enactment, statute</span><br /><br /><span class="word">and ordinances,</span><br /><span class="heb">מִשְׁפָּטַ֔י</span> <span class="translit">(miš·pā·ṭay)</span><br /><span class="parse">Noun - masculine plural construct | first person common singular<br /></span><span class="str"><a href="/hebrew/strongs_4941.htm">Strong's 4941: </a> </span><span class="str2">A verdict, a sentence, formal decree, divine law, penalty, justice, privilege, style</span><br /><br /><span class="word">and you must not</span><br /><span class="heb">וְלֹ֣א</span> <span class="translit">(wə·lō)</span><br /><span class="parse">Conjunctive waw | Adverb - Negative particle<br /></span><span class="str"><a href="/hebrew/strongs_3808.htm">Strong's 3808: </a> </span><span class="str2">Not, no</span><br /><br /><span class="word">commit</span><br /><span class="heb">תַעֲשׂ֔וּ</span> <span class="translit">(ṯa·‘ă·śū)</span><br /><span class="parse">Verb - Qal - Imperfect - second person masculine plural<br /></span><span class="str"><a href="/hebrew/strongs_6213.htm">Strong's 6213: </a> </span><span class="str2">To do, make</span><br /><br /><span class="word">any</span><br /><span class="heb">מִכֹּ֥ל</span> <span class="translit">(mik·kōl)</span><br /><span class="parse">Preposition-m | Noun - masculine singular construct<br /></span><span class="str"><a href="/hebrew/strongs_3605.htm">Strong's 3605: </a> </span><span class="str2">The whole, all, any, every</span><br /><br /><span class="word">of these</span><br /><span class="heb">הָאֵ֑לֶּה</span> <span class="translit">(hā·’êl·leh)</span><br /><span class="parse">Article | Pronoun - common plural<br /></span><span class="str"><a href="/hebrew/strongs_428.htm">Strong's 428: </a> </span><span class="str2">These, those</span><br /><br /><span class="word">abominations—</span><br /><span class="heb">הַתּוֹעֵבֹ֖ת</span> <span class="translit">(hat·tō·w·‘ê·ḇōṯ)</span><br /><span class="parse">Article | Noun - feminine plural<br /></span><span class="str"><a href="/hebrew/strongs_8441.htm">Strong's 8441: </a> </span><span class="str2">Something disgusting, an abhorrence, idolatry, an idol</span><br /><br /><span class="word">neither your native-born</span><br /><span class="heb">הָֽאֶזְרָ֔ח</span> <span class="translit">(hā·’ez·rāḥ)</span><br /><span class="parse">Article | Noun - masculine singular<br /></span><span class="str"><a href="/hebrew/strongs_249.htm">Strong's 249: </a> </span><span class="str2">A spontaneous growth, native</span><br /><br /><span class="word">nor the foreigner</span><br /><span class="heb">וְהַגֵּ֖ר</span> <span class="translit">(wə·hag·gêr)</span><br /><span class="parse">Conjunctive waw, Article | Noun - masculine singular<br /></span><span class="str"><a href="/hebrew/strongs_1616.htm">Strong's 1616: </a> </span><span class="str2">A guest, a foreigner</span><br /><br /><span class="word">who lives</span><br /><span class="heb">הַגָּ֥ר</span> <span class="translit">(hag·gār)</span><br /><span class="parse">Article | Verb - Qal - Participle - masculine singular<br /></span><span class="str"><a href="/hebrew/strongs_1481.htm">Strong's 1481: </a> </span><span class="str2">To turn aside from the road, sojourn, to shrink, fear, to gather for, hostility</span><br /><br /><span class="word">among you.</span><br /><span class="heb">בְּתוֹכְכֶֽם׃</span> <span class="translit">(bə·ṯō·wḵ·ḵem)</span><br /><span class="parse">Preposition-b | Noun - masculine singular construct | second person masculine plural<br /></span><span class="str"><a href="/hebrew/strongs_8432.htm">Strong's 8432: </a> </span><span class="str2">A bisection, the centre</span><br /><span class="p"><br /><br /></span><div class="vheading">Links</div><a href="/niv/leviticus/18-26.htm">Leviticus 18:26 NIV</a><br /><a href="/nlt/leviticus/18-26.htm">Leviticus 18:26 NLT</a><br /><a href="/esv/leviticus/18-26.htm">Leviticus 18:26 ESV</a><br /><a href="/nasb/leviticus/18-26.htm">Leviticus 18:26 NASB</a><br /><a href="/kjv/leviticus/18-26.htm">Leviticus 18:26 KJV</a><span class="p"><br /><br /></span><a href="//bibleapps.com/leviticus/18-26.htm">Leviticus 18:26 BibleApps.com</a><br /><a href="//bibliaparalela.com/leviticus/18-26.htm">Leviticus 18:26 Biblia Paralela</a><br /><a href="//holybible.com.cn/leviticus/18-26.htm">Leviticus 18:26 Chinese Bible</a><br /><a href="//saintebible.com/leviticus/18-26.htm">Leviticus 18:26 French Bible</a><br /><a href="/catholic/leviticus/18-26.htm">Leviticus 18:26 Catholic Bible</a><span class="p"><br /><br /></span><a href="/leviticus/18-26.htm">OT Law: Leviticus 18:26 You therefore shall keep my statutes (Le Lv Lev.) </a></div></div></td></tr></table></div><div id="left"><a href="/leviticus/18-25.htm" onmouseover='lft.src="/leftgif.png"' onmouseout='lft.src="/left.png"' title="Leviticus 18:25"><img src="/left.png" name="lft" border="0" alt="Leviticus 18:25" /></a></div><div id="right"><a href="/leviticus/18-27.htm" onmouseover='rght.src="/rightgif.png"' onmouseout='rght.src="/right.png"' title="Leviticus 18:27"><img src="/right.png" name="rght" border="0" alt="Leviticus 18:27" /></a></div><div id="botleft"><a href="#" onmouseover='botleft.src="/botleftgif.png"' onmouseout='botleft.src="/botleft.png"' title="Top of Page"><img src="/botleft.png" name="botleft" border="0" alt="Top of Page" /></a></div><div id="botright"><a href="#" onmouseover='botright.src="/botrightgif.png"' onmouseout='botright.src="/botright.png"' title="Top of Page"><img src="/botright.png" name="botright" border="0" alt="Top of Page" /></a></div><div id="bot"><iframe width="100%" height="1500" scrolling="no" src="/botmenubhnew2.htm" frameborder="0"></iframe></div></td></tr></table></div></body></html>