Leviticus 18:27

Complete Jewish Bible

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

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);

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);

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;)

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 You are not to approach a woman in order to have sexual relations with her when she is unclean from her time of niddah. ²⁰ You are not to go to bed with your neighbor's wife and thus become unclean with her. ²¹ "‘You are not to let any of your children be sacrificed to Molekh, thereby profaning the name of your God; I am Adonai . ²² (RY: iv, LY: vii) "‘You are not to go to bed with a man as with a woman; it is an abomination. ²³ "‘You are not to have sexual relations with any kind of animal and thus become unclean with it; nor is any woman to present herself to an animal to have sexual relations with it; it is perversion. ²⁴ "‘Do not make yourselves unclean by any of these things, because all the nations which I am expelling ahead of you are defiled with them. ²⁵ The land has become unclean, and this is why I am punishing it — the land itself will vomit out its inhabitants. ²⁶ But you are to keep my laws and rulings and not engage in any of these disgusting practices, neither the citizen nor the foreigner living with you; ²⁷ (LY: Maftir) for the people of the land have committed all these abominations, and the land is now defiled. ²⁸ If you make the land unclean, it will vomit you out too, just as it is vomiting out the nation that was there before you.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

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
Then Adonai , God, formed a person from the dust of the ground and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life, so that he became a living being.

Genesis 3:19
You will eat bread by the sweat of your forehead till you return to the ground — for you were taken out of it: you are dust, and you will return to dust."

Genesis 18:1
Adonai appeared to Avraham by the oaks of Mamre as he sat at the entrance to the tent during the heat of the day.

Genesis 18:2
He raised his eyes and looked, and there in front of him stood three men. On seeing them, he ran from the tent door to meet them, prostrated himself on the ground,

Genesis 18:6
Avraham hurried into the tent to Sarah and said, "Quickly, three measures of the best flour! Knead it and make cakes."

Genesis 18:8
Then he took curds, milk and the calf which he had prepared, and set it all before the men; and he stood by them under the tree as they ate.

Genesis 18:30
He said, "I hope A donai won't be angry if I speak. What if thirty are found there?" He said, "I won't do it if I find thirty there."

Genesis 18:32
He said, "I hope A donai won't be angry if I speak just once more. What if ten are found there?" He said, "For the sake of the ten I won't destroy it."

Ezra 9:6
and said, "My God, I am ashamed. I blush to lift my face to you, my God! For our sins tower over our heads; our guilt reaches up to heaven.

Job 4:19
much more those living in houses of clay, whose foundation is in the dust. They are crushed more easily than a worm;

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.