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Leviticus 18:27

for all these abominations have the men of the land done, that were before you, and the land is defiled —

JPS TaNaKH 1917

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

26Ye 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 —

28that the land vomit not you out also, when ye defile it, as it vomited out the nation that was before you.

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Cross References

Deuteronomy 20:18that they teach you not to do after all their abominations, which they have done unto their gods, and so ye sin against the LORD your God.

Deuteronomy 25:16For all that do such things, even all that do unrighteously, are an abomination unto the LORD thy God.

1 Kings 14:24and there were also sodomites in the land; they did according to all the abominations of the nations which the LORD drove out before the children of Israel.

2 Kings 21:2And he did that which was evil in the sight of the LORD, after the abominations of the nations, whom the LORD cast out before the children of Israel.

Ezekiel 16:50And they were haughty, and committed abomination before Me; therefore I removed them when I saw it.

Hosea 9:10I found Israel like grapes in the wilderness, I saw your fathers as the first-ripe in the fig-tree at her first season; but so soon as they came to Baal-peor, they separated themselves unto the shameful thing, and became detestable like that which they loved.

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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