Leviticus 18:27

27 (For all these disgusting things were done by the men of this country who were there before you, and the land has been made unclean by them;)

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 itself has become unclean; so that I have sent on it the reward of its wrongdoing, and the land itself puts out those who are living in it.

26 So then keep my rules and my decisions, and do not do any of these disgusting things, those of you who are Israelites by birth, or any others who are living with you:

27 (For all these disgusting things were done by the men of this country who were there before you, and the land has been made unclean by them;)

28 So that the land may not put you out from it, when you make it unclean, as it put out the nations which were there before you.

29 For all those who do any of these disgusting things will be cut off from among their people.