Leviticus 18:27

for the men of the land who [are] before you have done all these abominations and the land is defiled,

Literal Standard Version

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

26And you have kept My statutes and My judgments, and do not do [any] of all these abominations, the native and the sojourner who is sojourning in your midst,

28and the land does not vomit you out in your defiling it, as it has vomited out the nation which [is] before you;

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Cross References

Deuteronomy 20:18so that they do not teach you to do according to all their abominations which they have done for their gods, and you have sinned against your God YHWH.

Deuteronomy 25:16for anyone doing these things, anyone doing iniquity, [is] an abomination [to] your God YHWH.

1 Kings 14:24and a whoremonger has also been in the land; they have done according to all the abominations of the nations that YHWH dispossessed from the presence of the sons of Israel.

2 Kings 21:2and he does evil in the eyes of YHWH, according to the abominations of the nations that YHWH dispossessed from the presence of the sons of Israel,

Ezekiel 16:50And they are haughty and do abomination before Me, || And I turn them aside when I have seen.

Hosea 9:10As grapes in a wilderness I found Israel, || As the first-fruit in a fig tree, at its beginning, I have seen your fathers, || They have gone in [to] Ba‘al-Peor, || And are separated to a shameful thing, || And have become abominable like 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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