Leviticus 18:27

For all these detestable things were done by the inhabitants of the land who were here before you, and they have polluted it.

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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

26Keep my ordinances and judgments, and do not do any of these abominations: the native born, as well as the settler, who sojourns among you.

28Therefore, beware, lest in a similar manner, it may vomit you out as well, if you do these same things, just as it vomited out the people who were before you.

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Cross References

Deuteronomy 20:18Otherwise, they may teach you to do all the abominations which they have committed for their own gods. And then you would sin against the Lord your God.

Deuteronomy 25:16For the Lord your God abominates him who does these things, and he loathes all injustice.

1 Kings 14:24Moreover, the effeminate were in the land, and they committed all the abominations of the peoples that the Lord had destroyed before the face of the sons of Israel.

2 Kings 21:2And he did evil in the sight of the Lord, in accord with the idols of the nations that the Lord destroyed before the face of the sons of Israel.

Ezekiel 16:50And they were exalted, and they committed abominations before me. And so I took them away, just as you have seen.

Hosea 9:10I discovered Israel like grapes in the desert. Like the first fruits of the fig tree, I saw their fathers on the end of its branches. But they went in to Baal-peor, and they have been estranged by intermingling, and they have become abominable, just like the things that they chose to 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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