"(For all these abominations have the men of the land done, which {were} before you, and the land is defiled;)" — Leviticus 18:27

Leviticus 18:27 · KJV

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

— Leviticus 18:27

Ye 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 sojourneth among you:

Verse 28

That the land spue not you out also, when ye defile it, as it spued out the nations that {were} before you.

Leviticus 18 — Context

And the land is defiled: therefore I do visit the iniquity thereof upon it, and the land itself vomiteth out her inhabitants.

Ye 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 sojourneth among you:

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

That the land spue not you out also, when ye defile it, as it spued out the nations that {were} before you.

For whosoever shall commit any of these abominations, even the souls that commit {them} shall be cut off from among their people.

Cross References

2 Kings 21:2

And he did {that which was} evil in the sight of the LORD, after the abominations of the heathen, whom the LORD cast out before the children of Israel.

Deuteronomy 25:16

For all that do such things, {and} all that do unrighteously, {are} an abomination unto the LORD thy God.

Ezekiel 22:11

And one hath committed abomination with his neighbour's wife; and another hath lewdly defiled his daughter in law; and another in thee hath humbled his sister, his father's daughter. {one: or, every one} {another: or, every one} {lewdly: or, by lewdness}

Deuteronomy 27:15

Cursed {be} the man that maketh {any} graven or molten image, an abomination unto the LORD, the work of the hands of the craftsman, and putteth {it} in {a} secret {place}. And all the people shall answer and say, Amen.

Leviticus 18:24

Defile not ye yourselves in any of these things: for in all these the nations are defiled which I cast out before you:

2 Chronicles 36:14

Moreover all the chief of the priests, and the people, transgressed very much after all the abominations of the heathen; and polluted the house of the LORD which he had hallowed in Jerusalem.

Ezekiel 16:50

And they were haughty, and committed abomination before me: therefore I took them away as I saw {good}.

Deuteronomy 20:18

That they teach you not to do after all their abominations, which they have done unto their gods; so should ye sin against the LORD your God.