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Leviticus 18:27

(For all these abominations have the men of the land done, who were before you, and the land hath become defiled;)

Leeser Tanakh

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 shall therefore keep my statutes and my ordinances, and ye shall not commit any of these abominations; neither any of your own nation, nor the stranger that sojourneth among you;

28That the land may not vomit you out also, when ye defile it, as it hath vomited out the nations that were before you.

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Cross References

Deuteronomy 20:18In order that they may not teach you to do in accordance with all their abominations, which they have done unto their gods; and ye would thus sin against the Lord your God.

Deuteronomy 25:16For an abomination of the Lord thy God is every one that doth such things, every one that acteth unrighteously.

1 Kings 14:24And sodomites also were in the land: they acted in accordance with all the abominable deeds of the nations which the Lord had driven out before the children of Israel.

2 Kings 21:2And he did what is evil in the eyes of the Lord, after the abominable acts of the nations whom the Lord had driven out before the children of Israel.

Ezekiel 16:50And they became haughty, and committed abominations before me: therefore did I remove them when I saw their course.

Hosea 9:10Like grapes in the wilderness had I found Israel; as the first ripe fruit on the fig-tree in the first of the season had I seen your fathers; but they too went to Ba'al-pe'or: and devoted themselves unto that shameful idol, and became abominations as those 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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