Leviticus 18:26

26 You must keep my decrees and laws - natives and foreigners both. You must not do any of these abhorrent things.

Leviticus 18:26 Meaning and Commentary

Leviticus 18:26

Ye shall therefore keep my statutes and my judgments
Before observed to them, whether of a ceremonial nature, and enjoined them according to his sovereign will and pleasure; or of a moral nature, and founded in justice and equity, and so worthy of their regard, and obligatory upon them; as well as in their own nature they recommended themselves to their regard, as being the reverse of those loathsome and abominable things before dehorted from: and shall not commit [any] of these abominations;
such as incest, adultery, idolatry, and bestiality, which are in themselves abominable things, execrable to God, and to be detested by men: [neither] any of your own nation;
that belonged to any of their own tribes, or should be born to them in the land of Canaan when they came thither, and were properly natives of it: nor any stranger that sojourneth among you;
any proselyte, and especially a proselyte of righteousness, who conformed to the Jewish religion, and had laid himself under obligation to do everything that was binding upon an Israelite.

Leviticus 18:26 In-Context

24 "Don't pollute yourself in any of these ways. This is how the nations became polluted, the ones that I am going to drive out of the land before you.
25 Even the land itself became polluted and I punished it for its iniquities - the land vomited up its inhabitants.
26 You must keep my decrees and laws - natives and foreigners both. You must not do any of these abhorrent things.
27 The people who lived in this land before you arrived did all these things and polluted the land.
28 And if you pollute it, the land will vomit you up just as it vomited up the nations that preceded you.
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