Leviticus 18:27
 Leviticus 18:27 
New International Version (©2011)
for all these things were done by the people who lived in the land before you, and the land became defiled.

New Living Translation (©2007)
"All these detestable activities are practiced by the people of the land where I am taking you, and this is how the land has become defiled.

English Standard Version (©2001)
(for the people of the land, who were before you, did all of these abominations, so that the land became unclean),

New American Standard Bible (©1995)
(for the men of the land who have been before you have done all these abominations, and the land has become defiled);

King James Bible (Cambridge Ed.)
(For all these abominations have the men of the land done, which were before you, and the land is defiled;)

Holman Christian Standard Bible (©2009)
For the men who were in the land prior to you have committed all these detestable things, and the land has become defiled.

International Standard Version (©2012)
because the inhabitants of the land did all of these detestable things and by doing so defiled the land before you.

NET Bible (©2006)
for the people who were in the land before you have done all these abominations, and the land has become unclean.

GOD'S WORD® Translation (©1995)
The people of the land who were there before you did all these disgusting things. As a result, the land has become unclean.

King James 2000 Bible (©2003)
(For all these abominations have the men of the land done, which were before you, and the land is defiled;)

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

American Standard Version
(for all these abominations have the men of the land done, that were before you, and the land is defiled);

Douay-Rheims Bible
For all these detestable things the inhabitants of the land have done, that; were before you, and have defiled it.

Darby Bible Translation
(for all these abominations have the men of the land done, who were before you, and the land hath been made unclean);

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

Webster's Bible Translation
(For all these abominations have the men of the land done, who were before you, and the land is defiled;)

World English Bible
(for all these abominations have the men of the land done, that were before you, and the land became defiled);

Young's Literal Translation
(for all these abominations have the men of the land done who are before you, and the land is defiled),

Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary

18:1-30 Unlawful marriages and fleshly lusts. - Here is a law against all conformity to the corrupt usages of the heathen. Also laws against incest, against brutal lusts, and barbarous idolatries; and the enforcement of these laws from the ruin of the Canaanites. God here gives moral precepts. Close and constant adherence to God's ordinances is the most effectual preservative from gross sin. The grace of God only will secure us; that grace is to be expected only in the use of the means of grace. Nor does He ever leave any to their hearts' lusts, till they have left him and his services.


Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

For all these abominations have the men of the land done,.... The then present inhabitants of Canaan, who dwelt in it before the Israelites came into it; these were guilty of unclean copulations, of incestuous, marriages, of fornication and adultery, and of bestiality and idolatry:

which were before you; lived in the land before them, had long dwelt there, but now about to be cast out for their sins; and therefore they who were going to succeed them should take warning by them, lest, committing the same sins, they should be cast out likewise:

and the land is defiled; See Gill on Leviticus 18:25.


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Unlawful Sexual Relations
26You shall therefore keep my statutes and my judgments, and shall not commit any of these abominations; neither any of your own nation, nor any stranger that sojournes among you: 27(For all these abominations have the men of the land done, which were before you, and the land is defiled;) 28That the land spew not you out also, when you defile it, as it spewed out the nations that were before you. …

Leviticus 18:26 But you must keep my decrees and my laws. The native-born and the foreigners residing among you must not do any of these detestable things,
Leviticus 18:28 And if you defile the land, it will vomit you out as it vomited out the nations that were before you.