Leviticus 18:27

(For all these disgusting things were done by the men of this country who were there before you, and the land has been made unclean by them;)

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In The King James Version

(For all these abominations have the men of the land done, which were before you, and the land is defiled;)

In Context

26So then keep my rules and my decisions, and do not do any of these disgusting things, those of you who are Israelites by birth, or any others who are living with you:

28So that the land may not put you out from it, when you make it unclean, as it put out the nations which were there before you.

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Cross References

Deuteronomy 20:18So that you may not take them as your example and do all the disgusting things which they do in the worship of their gods, so sinning against the Lord your God.

Deuteronomy 25:16For all who do such things, and all whose ways are not upright, are disgusting to the Lord your God.

1 Kings 14:24And more than this, there were those in the land who were used for sex purposes in the worship of the gods, doing the same disgusting crimes as the nations which the Lord had sent out before the children of Israel.

2 Kings 21:2He did evil in the eyes of the Lord, copying the disgusting ways of those nations whom the Lord had sent out before the children of Israel.

Ezekiel 16:50They were full of pride and did what was disgusting to me: and so I took them away as you have seen.

Hosea 9:10I made discovery of Israel as of grapes in the waste land; I saw your fathers as the first-fruits of the fig-tree in her early fruit time; but they came to Baal-peor, and made themselves holy to the thing of shame, and became disgusting like that to which they gave their love.

Matthew Henry on Leviticus 18:20-30

Laws against Iniquity. ( b. c. 1490.) 19 Also thou shalt not approach unto a woman to uncover her nakedness, as long as she is put apart for her uncleanness. 20 Moreover thou shalt not lie carnally with thy neighbour's wife, to defile thyself with her. 21 And thou shalt not let any of thy seed pass through the fire to Molech, neither shalt thou profane the name of thy God: I am the Lord . 22 Thou shalt not lie with mankind, as with womankind: it is abomination. 23 Neither shalt thou lie with any beast to defile… Read the whole commentary →

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