Leviticus 18:27

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

Young's Literal Translation

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

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

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Cross References

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

Deuteronomy 25:16for the abomination of Jehovah thy God [is] any one doing these things, any one doing iniquity.

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

2 Kings 21:2and he doth the evil thing in the eyes of Jehovah, according to the abominations of the nations that Jehovah 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 — they have gone in [to] Baal-Peor, And are separated to a shameful thing, And are 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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