Leviticus 18:27

27 (For all these abominations were done by the men of the land who were before you, and the land was contaminated.)

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 and the land became defiled; therefore, I visited its iniquity upon it, and the land itself vomited out her inhabitants.

26 Ye shall, therefore, keep my statutes and my rights and shall not commit any of these abominations, neither the natural of your own nor any stranger that sojourns among you.

27 (For all these abominations were done by the men of the land who were before you, and the land was contaminated.)

28 And will the land not vomit you out also for having contaminated it, as it vomited out the Gentiles that were before you?

29 For whoever shall commit any of these abominations, the persons that commit them shall be cut off from among his people.