Leviticus 18:27

27 (because the people of the land, who [were] {before you}, did all these detestable things, so 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 So the land became unclean, and {I have brought the punishment of} its guilt upon it, and the land has vomited out its inhabitants.

26 But you ([neither] the native nor the alien who is dwelling in your midst) shall keep my statutes and my regulations, and you shall not {practice} any of these detestable things

27 (because the people of the land, who [were] {before you}, did all these detestable things, so the land became unclean),

28 so that the land will not vomit you out when you make it unclean [just] as it vomited out the nation that [was] {before you}.

29 Indeed, anyone who does any of these detestable things, even those persons who do so shall be cut off from the midst of their people.

Footnotes

• [a]. Literally "to the faces of you"