Leviticus 18:27

Webster's Bible Translation

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

Parallel Translations

Hebrew Names Version
(for all these abominations have the men of the land done, that were before you, and the land became defiled);

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

Lexham English Bible
(because the people of the land, who were before you, did all these detestable things, so the land became unclean),

New Century Version
The people who lived in the land before you did all these hateful things and made the land unclean.

New English Translation
for the people who were in the land before you have done all these abominations, and the land has become unclean.

Amplified Bible
(for all these repulsive acts have been done by the men who lived in the land before you, and the land has become defiled);

New American Standard Bible
(for the people of the land who were there before you did all these abominations, and the land has become defiled),

Geneva Bible (1587)
(For all these abominations haue the men of the land done, which were before you, and the land is defiled:

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

Complete Jewish Bible
(LY: Maftir) for the people of the land have committed all these abominations, and the land is now defiled.

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

Easy-to-Read Version
Those who lived in the land before you have done all these terrible things. So the land became filthy.

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

George Lamsa Translation
(For all these sins have the men of the land done who were before you, and the land is defiled);

Christian Standard Bible®
For the people who were in the land prior to you have committed all these detestable acts, and the land has become defiled.

Literal Translation
For the men of the land who are before you have done all these disgusting things, and the land is defiled.

Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
(for all soch abhominacions haue ye people of this lode done which were before you, & haue defyled the lande)

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

Bible in Basic English
(For all these disgusting things were done by the men of this country who were there before you, and the land has been made unclean by them;)

Bishop's Bible (1568)
(For all these abhominations, haue the men of the lande done whiche were before you, and the lande is defiled.)

JPS Old Testament (1917)
for all these abominations have the men of the land done, that were before you, and the land is defiled--

King James Version (1611)
(For all these abominations haue the men of the land done, which were before you, and the land is defiled.)

Brenton's Septuagint (LXX)
(for all these abominations the men of the land did who were before you, and the land was defiled,)

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

Berean Standard Bible
For the men who were in the land before you committed all these abominations, and the land has become defiled.

Wycliffe Bible (1395)
For the dwellers of the lond, that weren bifor you, diden alle these abhomynaciouns, and defouliden that lond.

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

Update Bible Version
for the men that were before you in the land have done all these disgusting things, 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 is defiled);

New King James Version
(for all these abominations the men of the land have done, who were before you, and thus the land is defiled),

New Living Translation
"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.

New Life Bible
For the men who have lived in the land before you have done all of these sinful things. The land is unclean.

New Revised Standard
(for the inhabitants of the land, who were before you, committed all of these abominations, and the land became defiled);

J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
For all these abominations, have the men of the land done, who were before you; And so the land hath become unclean:

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

Revised Standard Version
(for all of these abominations the men of the land did, who were before you, so that the land became defiled);

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);

Contextual Overview

¹⁹ Also thou shalt not approach to 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 neighbor'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 thyself therewith: neither shall any woman stand before a beast to lie down thereto: it [is] confusion. ²⁴ Defile not ye yourselves in any of these things; for in all these the nations are defiled which I cast out before you: ²⁵ And the land is defiled: therefore I do visit its iniquity upon it, and the land itself vomiteth out her inhabitants. ²⁶ 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. ²⁷ (For all these abominations have the men of the land done, who [were] before you, and the land is defiled;) ²⁸ That the land may not vomit you out also, when ye defile it, as it vomited out the nations that [were] before you.

Bible Verse Review
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Leviticus 18:24, Deuteronomy 20:18, Deuteronomy 23:18, Deuteronomy 25:16, Deuteronomy 27:15, 1 Kings 14:24, 2 Kings 16:3, 2 Kings 21:2, 2 Chronicles 36:14, Ezekiel 16:50, Ezekiel 22:11, Hosea 9:10

Reciprocal: Leviticus 18:30 - abominable Leviticus 20:23 - therefore Deuteronomy 18:9 - General Deuteronomy 18:12 - General Deuteronomy 32:16 - abominations 2 Kings 17:8 - walked Jeremiah 16:13 - will I Jeremiah 16:18 - they have defiled

Cross-References

Genesis 2:7
And the LORD God formed man [of] the dust of the ground, and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life; and man became a living soul.

Genesis 3:19
In the sweat of thy face shalt thou eat bread, till thou shalt return to the ground; for out of it wast thou taken: for dust thou [art], and to dust shalt thou return.

Genesis 18:1
And the LORD appeared to him in the plains of Mamre: and he sat in the tent door in the heat of the day;

Genesis 18:2
And he lifted up his eyes and looked, and lo, three men stood by him: and when he saw [them], he ran to meet them from the tent door, and bowed himself toward the ground,

Genesis 18:6
And Abraham hastened into the tent to Sarah, and said, Make ready quickly three measures of fine meal, knead [it], and make cakes upon the hearth.

Genesis 18:8
And he took butter, and milk, and the calf which he had dressed, and set [it] before them; and he stood by them under the tree, and they ate.

Genesis 18:30
And he said, Oh, let not the Lord be angry, and I will speak: Peradventure there will thirty be found there. And he said, I will not do [it], if I find thirty there.

Genesis 18:32
And he said, Oh let not the Lord be angry, and I will speak yet but this once: Peradventure ten will be found there. And he said, I will not destroy [it] for ten's sake.

Ezra 9:6
And said, O my God, I am ashamed and blush to lift up my face to thee, my God: for our iniquities are increased over [our] head, and our trespass is grown up to the heavens.

Job 4:19
How much less [in] them that dwell in houses of clay, whose foundation [is] in the dust, [who] are crushed before the moth?

Gill's Notes on the 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; :-.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

The land designed and consecrated for His people by Yahweh Leviticus 25:23 is here impersonated, and represented as vomiting forth its present inhabitants, in consequence of their indulgence in the abominations that have been mentioned. The iniquity of the Canaanites was now full. See Genesis 15:16; compare Isaiah 24:1-6. The Israelites in this place, and throughout the chapter, are exhorted to a pure and holy life, on the ground that Yahweh, the Holy One, is their God and that they are His people. Compare Leviticus 19:2. It is upon this high sanction that they are peremptorily forbidden to defile themselves with the pollutions of the pagan. The only punishment here pronounced upon individual transgressors is, that they shall “bear their iniquity” and be “cut off from among their people.” We must understand this latter phrase as expressing an “ipso facto” excommunication or outlawry, the divine Law pronouncing on the offender an immediate forfeiture of the privileges which belonged to him as one of the people in covenant with Yahweh. See Exodus 31:14 note. The course which the Law here takes seems to be first to appeal to the conscience of the individual man on the ground of his relation to Yahweh, and then Leviticus 20:0 to enact such penalties as the order of the state required, and as represented the collective conscience of the nation put into operation.