Leviticus 18:27

27 " 'All of those things were done by the people who lived in the land before you. That is how 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 Even their land was not "clean." So I punished it because of its sin. The land itself threw out the people who lived there.

26 " 'But you must keep my rules and my laws. You must not do any of the things I hate. It does not matter whether you are Israelites or outsiders.

27 " 'All of those things were done by the people who lived in the land before you. That is how the land became "unclean."

28 If you make the land "unclean," it will throw you out. It will get rid of you just as it got rid of the nations that were there before you.

29 " 'Suppose you do any of the things I hate. Then you must be cut off from your people.