Leviticus 18:27

For this is the wickedness that the people in the land have committed, those who lived here before you, and now the land is defiled.

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

In Context

26You, therefore, must keep my commandments and decrees, and you must not do any of these detestable things, neither the native-born Israelite nor the foreigner who lives among you.

28Therefore be careful so that the land does not vomit you up also after you have defiled it, as it vomited out the people who were before you.

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Cross References

Deuteronomy 20:18Do this so that they do not teach you to act in any of their abominable ways, as they have done with their gods. If you do, you will sin against Yahweh your God.

Deuteronomy 25:16For all who do such things, all that act unrighteously, are an abomination to Yahweh your God.

1 Kings 14:24There were also cultic prostitutes in the land. They did the same despicable practices as the nations that Yahweh had driven out before the people of Israel.

2 Kings 21:2He did what was evil in the sight of Yahweh, like the disgusting things of the nations whom Yahweh had driven out before the people of Israel.

Ezekiel 16:50She was arrogant and committed disgusting actions before me, so I took them away just as you have seen.

Hosea 9:10Yahweh says, “When I found Israel, it was like finding grapes in the wilderness. 1 Like the very first fruit of the season on the fig tree, I found your fathers. 1 But they went to Baal Peor, 1 and they devoted themselves to that shameful idol. 1 They became as detestable as the idol they loved. 1

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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