Leviticus 18:27

²⁵ Even the land has become defiled, so I am punishing it for its sin, and the land will vomit out its inhabitants.

²⁶ But you are to keep My statutes and ordinances, and you must not commit any of these abominations—neither your native-born nor the foreigner who lives among you.

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

²⁸ So if you defile the land, it will vomit you out as it spewed out the nations before you.

²⁹ Therefore anyone who commits any of these abominations must be cut off from among his people.

This was said to Israel at a particular time, so it is wise to read it together with the surrounding text. Do read the surrounding verses too, because the context often says more than a single verse.

Compare

BSB: For the men who were in the land before you committed all these abominations, and the land has become defiled.
KJV: (For all these abominations have the men of the land done, which were before you, and the land is defiled;)
WEB: (for the men of the land that were before you had done all these abominations, and the land became defiled),
ASV: (for all these abominations have the men of the land done, that were before you, and the land is defiled);
DARBY: (for all these abominations have the men of the land done, who were before you, and the land hath been made unclean);
BLB: for the men of the land who [were] before your⁺ faces have done all these abominations, and the land was defiled—

ÅB: for alle disse avskyelige gjerninger har landets innbyggere gjort, de som var der før dere, og slik ble landet urent.
OTB: For alle disse vederstyggelighetene ble begått av folket som bodde i landet før dere, og landet ble besmittet.
B1930: for alle disse vederstyggelige gjerninger har landets innbyggere gjort, de som var der før eder, og således blev landet urent.

Study notes (Tyndale)

Original text and word study

Cross references

Ezekiel 22:11
One man commits an abomination with his neighbor’s wife; another wickedly defiles his daughter-in-law; and yet another violates his sister, his own father’s daughter.
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Deuteronomy 27:15
‘Cursed is the man who makes a carved idol or molten image—an abomination to the LORD, the work of the hands of a craftsman—and sets it up in secret.’ And let all the people say, ‘Amen!’
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Ezekiel 16:50
Thus they were haughty and committed abominations before Me. Therefore I removed them, as you have seen.
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2 Chronicles 36:14
Furthermore, all the leaders of the priests and the people multiplied their unfaithful deeds, following all the abominations of the nations, and they defiled the house of the LORD, which He had consecrated in Jerusalem.
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1 Kings 14:24
There were even male shrine prostitutes in the land. They imitated all the abominations of the nations the LORD had driven out before the Israelites.
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2 Kings 16:3
Instead, he walked in the ways of the kings of Israel and even sacrificed his son in the fire, according to the abominations of the nations that the LORD had driven out before the Israelites.
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Deuteronomy 23:18
You must not bring the wages of a prostitute, whether female or male, into the house of the LORD your God to fulfill any vow, because both are detestable to the LORD your God.
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Leviticus 18:24
Do not defile yourselves by any of these practices, for by all these things the nations I am driving out before you have defiled themselves.
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