Leviticus 18:24

24 “ ‘Do not defile yourselves in any of these ways, because this is how the nations that I am going to drive out before you became defiled.

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Leviticus 18:24 in Other Translations

KJV

24 Defile not ye yourselves in any of these things: for in all these the nations are defiled which I cast out before you:

ESV

24 "Do not make yourselves unclean by any of these things, for by all these the nations I am driving out before you have become unclean,

NLT

24 “Do not defile yourselves in any of these ways, for the people I am driving out before you have defiled themselves in all these ways.

MSG

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.

CSB

24 "Do not defile yourselves by any of these [practices], for the nations I am driving out before you have defiled themselves by all these things.

Leviticus 18:24 Meaning and Commentary

Leviticus 18:24

Defile not ye yourselves in any of these things
In incestuous copulations and marriages, in adultery, corporeal and spiritual, and bestiality: for in all these the nations are defiled which I cast out before you;
that is, the seven nations of the land of Canaan, which God was about to eject out of their land to make room for the Israelites, and that on account of the above shocking vices which abounded among them; so that in some sense the land they dwelt upon was defiled by them, and called for vengeance on them, as even loathing its inhabitants, as afterwards suggested.

Taken from John Gill's Exposition of the Bible

Leviticus 18:24 In-Context

22 “ ‘Do not have sexual relations with a man as one does with a woman; that is detestable.

23 “ ‘Do not have sexual relations with an animal and defile yourself with it. A woman must not present herself to an animal to have sexual relations with it; that is a perversion.

24 “ ‘Do not defile yourselves in any of these ways, because this is how the nations that I am going to drive out before you became defiled.

25 Even the land was defiled; so I punished it for its sin, and the land vomited out its inhabitants.

26 But you must keep my decrees and my laws. The native-born and the foreigners residing among you must not do any of these detestable things,