Leviticus 18:27

27 The people who lived in this land before you arrived did all these things and polluted the land.

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 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.
29 "Those who do any of these abhorrent things will be cut off from their people.
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