Deuteronomy 18:12
New International Version
Anyone who does these things is detestable to the LORD; because of these same detestable practices the LORD your God will drive out those nations before you.

New Living Translation
Anyone who does these things is detestable to the LORD. It is because the other nations have done these detestable things that the LORD your God will drive them out ahead of you.

English Standard Version
for whoever does these things is an abomination to the LORD. And because of these abominations the LORD your God is driving them out before you.

Berean Standard Bible
For whoever does these things is detestable to the LORD. And because of these detestable things, the LORD your God is driving out the nations before you.

King James Bible
For all that do these things are an abomination unto the LORD: and because of these abominations the LORD thy God doth drive them out from before thee.

New King James Version
For all who do these things are an abomination to the LORD, and because of these abominations the LORD your God drives them out from before you.

New American Standard Bible
For whoever does these things is detestable to the LORD; and because of these detestable things the LORD your God is going to drive them out before you.

NASB 1995
“For whoever does these things is detestable to the LORD; and because of these detestable things the LORD your God will drive them out before you.

NASB 1977
“For whoever does these things is detestable to the LORD; and because of these detestable things the LORD your God will drive them out before you.

Legacy Standard Bible
For whoever does these things is an abomination to Yahweh; and because of these abominations Yahweh your God will dispossess them from before you.

Amplified Bible
For everyone who does these things is utterly repulsive to the LORD; and because of these detestable practices the LORD your God is driving them out before you.

Christian Standard Bible
Everyone who does these acts is detestable to the LORD, and the LORD your God is driving out the nations before you because of these detestable acts.

Holman Christian Standard Bible
Everyone who does these things is detestable to the LORD, and the LORD your God is driving out the nations before you because of these detestable things.

American Standard Version
For whosoever doeth these things is an abomination unto Jehovah: and because of these abominations Jehovah thy God doth drive them out from before thee.

Aramaic Bible in Plain English
Because everyone whoever does these things is defiled before LORD JEHOVAH your God, and because of these detestable things LORD JEHOVAH your God destroys them from before you.

Brenton Septuagint Translation
For every one that does these things is an abomination to the Lord thy God; for because of these abominations the Lord will destroy them from before thy face.

Contemporary English Version
The LORD is disgusted with anyone who does these things, and that's why he will help you destroy the nations that are in the land.

Douay-Rheims Bible
For the Lord abhorreth all these things, and for these abominations he will destroy them at thy coming.

English Revised Version
For whosoever doeth these things is an abomination unto the LORD: and because of these abominations the LORD thy God doth drive them out from before thee.

GOD'S WORD® Translation
Whoever does these things is disgusting to the LORD. The LORD your God is forcing these nations out of your way because of their disgusting practices.

Good News Translation
The LORD your God hates people who do these disgusting things, and that is why he is driving those nations out of the land as you advance.

International Standard Version
Whoever practices these things is detestable to the LORD, and the LORD your God will expel them before you because of these things.

JPS Tanakh 1917
For whosoever doeth these things is an abomination unto the LORD; and because of these abominations the LORD thy God is driving them out from before thee.

Literal Standard Version
For everyone doing these [is] an abomination [to] YHWH, and because of these abominations your God YHWH is dispossessing them from your presence.

Majority Standard Bible
For whoever does these things is detestable to the LORD. And because of these detestable things, the LORD your God is driving out the nations before you.

New American Bible
Anyone who does such things is an abomination to the LORD, and because of such abominations the LORD, your God, is dispossessing them before you.

NET Bible
Whoever does these things is abhorrent to the LORD and because of these detestable things the LORD your God is about to drive them out from before you.

New Revised Standard Version
For whoever does these things is abhorrent to the LORD; it is because of such abhorrent practices that the LORD your God is driving them out before you.

New Heart English Bible
For whoever does these things is an abomination to the LORD. And because of these abominations the LORD your God is driving them out from before you.

Webster's Bible Translation
For all that do these things are an abomination to the LORD: and because of these abominations the LORD thy God doth drive them out from before thee.

World English Bible
For whoever does these things is an abomination to Yahweh. Because of these abominations, Yahweh your God drives them out from before you.

Young's Literal Translation
For the abomination of Jehovah is every one doing these, and because of these abominations is Jehovah thy God dispossessing them from thy presence.

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Context
Sorcery Forbidden
11casts spells, consults a medium or spiritist, or inquires of the dead. 12 For whoever does these things is detestable to the LORD. And because of these detestable things, the LORD your God is driving out the nations before you. 13You must be blameless before the LORD your God.…

Cross References
Leviticus 18:24
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.

Leviticus 18:25
Even the land has become defiled, so I am punishing it for its sin, and the land will vomit out its inhabitants.

Deuteronomy 14:27
And do not neglect the Levite within your gates, since he has no portion or inheritance among you.

Ezekiel 31:11
I delivered it into the hand of the ruler of the nations, for him to deal with it according to its wickedness. I have banished it.


Treasury of Scripture

For all that do these things are an abomination to the LORD: and because of these abominations the LORD your God does drive them out from before you.

Deuteronomy 9:4
Speak not thou in thine heart, after that the LORD thy God hath cast them out from before thee, saying, For my righteousness the LORD hath brought me in to possess this land: but for the wickedness of these nations the LORD doth drive them out from before thee.

Leviticus 18:24,27
Defile not ye yourselves in any of these things: for in all these the nations are defiled which I cast out before you: …

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Deuteronomy 18
1. The LORD is the priests and Levites' inheritance
3. The priests' due
6. The Levites' portion
9. The abominations of the nations are to be avoided
15. Christ the Prophet is to be heard
20. The presumptuous prophet is to die














Verse 12. - All who practiced such arts were an abomination unto the Lord, and his people are forbidden to have anything to do with them. They are connected here with the Moloch-worship, because of the intimate relation between idolatry and the use of magical arts; and Moloch-worship is specially mentioned, probably because it was the form of idolatry with which the Israelites were most likely to come in contact, both where they then were and also in Canaan; not, as Keil suggests, because that form "was more intimately connected with soothsaying and magic than any other description of idolatry" - an assertion for which there is no evidence.

Parallel Commentaries ...


Hebrew
For whoever
כָּל־ (kāl-)
Noun - masculine singular construct
Strong's 3605: The whole, all, any, every

does
עֹ֣שֵׂה (‘ō·śêh)
Verb - Qal - Participle - masculine singular construct
Strong's 6213: To do, make

these things
אֵ֑לֶּה (’êl·leh)
Pronoun - common plural
Strong's 428: These, those

is detestable
תוֹעֲבַ֥ת (ṯō·w·‘ă·ḇaṯ)
Noun - feminine singular construct
Strong's 8441: Something disgusting, an abhorrence, idolatry, an idol

to the LORD,
יְהוָ֖ה (Yah·weh)
Noun - proper - masculine singular
Strong's 3068: LORD -- the proper name of the God of Israel

and because
וּבִגְלַל֙ (ū·ḇiḡ·lal)
Conjunctive waw, Preposition-b | Noun - masculine singular construct
Strong's 1558: A circumstance, on account of

of these
הָאֵ֔לֶּה (hā·’êl·leh)
Article | Pronoun - common plural
Strong's 428: These, those

detestable things
הַתּוֹעֵבֹ֣ת (hat·tō·w·‘ê·ḇōṯ)
Article | Noun - feminine plural
Strong's 8441: Something disgusting, an abhorrence, idolatry, an idol

the LORD
יְהוָ֣ה (Yah·weh)
Noun - proper - masculine singular
Strong's 3068: LORD -- the proper name of the God of Israel

your God
אֱלֹהֶ֔יךָ (’ĕ·lō·he·ḵā)
Noun - masculine plural construct | second person masculine singular
Strong's 430: gods -- the supreme God, magistrates, a superlative

is driving out
מוֹרִ֥ישׁ (mō·w·rîš)
Verb - Hifil - Participle - masculine singular
Strong's 3423: To occupy, to seize, to rob, to inherit, to expel, to impoverish, to ruin

[the nations] before you.
מִפָּנֶֽיךָ׃ (mip·pā·ne·ḵā)
Preposition-m | Noun - common plural construct | second person masculine singular
Strong's 6440: The face


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