Leviticus 18:27

Bible in Basic English

(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;)

Parallel Translations

Hebrew Names Version
(for all these abominations have the men of the land done, that were before you, and the land became defiled);

King James Version
(For all these abominations have the men of the land done, which were before you, and the land is defiled;)

Lexham English Bible
(because the people of the land, who were before you, did all these detestable things, so the land became unclean),

New Century Version
The people who lived in the land before you did all these hateful things and made the land unclean.

New English Translation
for the people who were in the land before you have done all these abominations, and the land has become unclean.

Amplified Bible
(for all these repulsive acts have been done by the men who lived in the land before you, and the land has become defiled);

New American Standard Bible
(for the people of the land who were there before you did all these abominations, and the land has become defiled),

Geneva Bible (1587)
(For all these abominations haue the men of the land done, which were before you, and the land is defiled:

Legacy Standard Bible
(for the men of the land who have been before you have done all these abominations, and the land has become defiled);

Complete Jewish Bible
(LY: Maftir) for the people of the land have committed all these abominations, and the land is now defiled.

Darby Translation
(for all these abominations have the men of the land done, who were before you, and the land hath been made unclean);

Easy-to-Read Version
Those who lived in the land before you have done all these terrible things. So the land became filthy.

English Standard Version
(for the people of the land, who were before you, did all of these abominations, so that the land became unclean),

George Lamsa Translation
(For all these sins have the men of the land done who were before you, and the land is defiled);

Christian Standard Bible®
For the people who were in the land prior to you have committed all these detestable acts, and the land has become defiled.

Literal Translation
For the men of the land who are before you have done all these disgusting things, and the land is defiled.

Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
(for all soch abhominacions haue ye people of this lode done which were before you, & haue defyled the lande)

American Standard Version
(for all these abominations have the men of the land done, that were before you, and the land is defiled);

Bishop's Bible (1568)
(For all these abhominations, haue the men of the lande done whiche were before you, and the lande is defiled.)

JPS Old Testament (1917)
for all these abominations have the men of the land done, that were before you, and the land is defiled--

King James Version (1611)
(For all these abominations haue the men of the land done, which were before you, and the land is defiled.)

Brenton's Septuagint (LXX)
(for all these abominations the men of the land did who were before you, and the land was defiled,)

English Revised Version
(for all these abominations have the men of the land done, which were before you, and the land is defiled;)

Berean Standard Bible
For the men who were in the land before you committed all these abominations, and the land has become defiled.

Wycliffe Bible (1395)
For the dwellers of the lond, that weren bifor you, diden alle these abhomynaciouns, and defouliden that lond.

Young's Literal Translation
(for all these abominations have the men of the land done who [are] before you, and the land is defiled),

Update Bible Version
for the men that were before you in the land have done all these disgusting things, and the land is defiled;

Webster's Bible Translation
(For all these abominations have the men of the land done, who [were] before you, and the land is defiled;)

World English Bible
(for all these abominations have the men of the land done, that were before you, and the land is defiled);

New King James Version
(for all these abominations the men of the land have done, who were before you, and thus the land is defiled),

New Living Translation
"All these detestable activities are practiced by the people of the land where I am taking you, and this is how the land has become defiled.

New Life Bible
For the men who have lived in the land before you have done all of these sinful things. The land is unclean.

New Revised Standard
(for the inhabitants of the land, who were before you, committed all of these abominations, and the land became defiled);

J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
For all these abominations, have the men of the land done, who were before you; And so the land hath become unclean:

Douay-Rheims Bible
For all these detestable things the inhabitants of the land have done, that were before you, and have defiled it.

Revised Standard Version
(for all of these abominations the men of the land did, who were before you, so that the land became defiled);

New American Standard Bible (1995)
(for the men of the land who have been before you have done all these abominations, and the land has become defiled);

Contextual Overview

¹⁹ And you may not go near a woman or have sex relations with her when she is unclean, at her regular time. ²⁰ And you may not have sex relations with your neighbour's wife, making yourself unclean with her. ²¹ And you may not make any of your children go through the fire as an offering to Molech, and you may not put shame on the name of your God: I am the Lord. ²² You may not have sex relations with men, as you do with women: it is a disgusting thing. ²³ And you may not have sex relations with a beast, making yourself unclean with it; and a woman may not give herself to a beast: it is an unnatural act. ²⁴ Do not make yourself unclean in any of these ways; for so have those nations whom I am driving out from before you made themselves unclean: 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.

Bible Verse Review
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Leviticus 18:24, Deuteronomy 20:18, Deuteronomy 23:18, Deuteronomy 25:16, Deuteronomy 27:15, 1 Kings 14:24, 2 Kings 16:3, 2 Kings 21:2, 2 Chronicles 36:14, Ezekiel 16:50, Ezekiel 22:11, Hosea 9:10

Reciprocal: Leviticus 18:30 - abominable Leviticus 20:23 - therefore Deuteronomy 18:9 - General Deuteronomy 18:12 - General Deuteronomy 32:16 - abominations 2 Kings 17:8 - walked Jeremiah 16:13 - will I Jeremiah 16:18 - they have defiled

Cross-References

Genesis 2:7
And the Lord God made man from the dust of the earth, breathing into him the breath of life: and man became a living soul.

Genesis 3:19
With the hard work of your hands you will get your bread till you go back to the earth from which you were taken: for dust you are and to the dust you will go back.

Genesis 18:1
Now the Lord came to him by the holy tree of Mamre, when he was seated in the doorway of his tent in the middle of the day;

Genesis 18:2
And lifting up his eyes, he saw three men before him; and seeing them, he went quickly to them from the door of the tent, and went down on his face to the earth;

Genesis 18:6
Then Abraham went quickly into the tent, and said to Sarah, Get three measures of meal straight away and make cakes.

Genesis 18:8
And he took butter and milk and the young ox which he had made ready and put it before them, waiting by them under the tree while they took food.

Genesis 18:30
And he said, Let not the Lord be angry with me if I say, What if there are thirty there? And he said, I will not do it if there are thirty.

Genesis 18:32
And he said, O let not the Lord be angry and I will say only one word more: by chance there may be ten there. And he said, I will have mercy because of the ten.

Ezra 9:6
I said, O my God, shame keeps me from lifting up my face to you, my God: for our sins are increased higher than our heads and our evil-doing has come up to heaven.

Job 4:19
How much more those living in houses of earth, whose bases are in the dust! They are crushed more quickly than an insect;

Gill's Notes on the Bible

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; :-.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

The land designed and consecrated for His people by Yahweh Leviticus 25:23 is here impersonated, and represented as vomiting forth its present inhabitants, in consequence of their indulgence in the abominations that have been mentioned. The iniquity of the Canaanites was now full. See Genesis 15:16; compare Isaiah 24:1-6. The Israelites in this place, and throughout the chapter, are exhorted to a pure and holy life, on the ground that Yahweh, the Holy One, is their God and that they are His people. Compare Leviticus 19:2. It is upon this high sanction that they are peremptorily forbidden to defile themselves with the pollutions of the pagan. The only punishment here pronounced upon individual transgressors is, that they shall “bear their iniquity” and be “cut off from among their people.” We must understand this latter phrase as expressing an “ipso facto” excommunication or outlawry, the divine Law pronouncing on the offender an immediate forfeiture of the privileges which belonged to him as one of the people in covenant with Yahweh. See Exodus 31:14 note. The course which the Law here takes seems to be first to appeal to the conscience of the individual man on the ground of his relation to Yahweh, and then Leviticus 20:0 to enact such penalties as the order of the state required, and as represented the collective conscience of the nation put into operation.