Leviticus 18:27

27 (For all these abominations have the men of the land done, who [were] before you, and the land is defiled;)

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 is defiled: therefore I do visit its iniquity upon it, and the land itself vomiteth out her inhabitants.

26 Ye shall therefore keep my statutes and my judgments, and shall not commit [any] of these abominations; [neither] any of your own nation, nor any stranger that sojourneth among you.

27 (For all these abominations have the men of the land done, who [were] before you, and the land is defiled;)

28 That the land may not vomit you out also, when ye defile it, as it vomited out the nations that [were] before you.

29 For whoever shall commit any of these abominations, even the souls that commit [them] shall be cut off from among their people.