Leviticus 18:27

27 because the people who had the land before you did all of these detestable things and the land became unclean),

Leviticus 18:27 Meaning and Commentary

Leviticus 18:27

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).

Leviticus 18:27 In-Context

25 That is also how the land became unclean, and I held it liable for punishment, and the land vomited out its inhabitants.

26 But all of you must keep my rules and my regulations. You must not do any of these detestable things, neither citizen nor immigrant who lives with you (

27 because the people who had the land before you did all of these detestable things and the land became unclean),

28 so that the land does not vomit you out because you have made it unclean, just as it vomited out the nations that were before you.

29 Anyone who does any of these detestable things will be cut off from their people.