Leviticus 18:27
BSB · Public Domain (CC0)“For the men who were in the land before you committed all these abominations, and the land has become defiled.”
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“For the men who were in the land before you committed all these abominations, and the land has become defiled.”
Berean Standard Bible · Public Domain (CC0)“(For all these abominations have the men of the land done, which were before you, and the land is defiled;)”
King James Version · Public Domain“(for all these abominations have the men of the land done, that were before you, and the land is defiled);”
American Standard Version · Public Domain“(for all these abominations have the men of the land done who <FI>are<Fi> before you, and the land is defiled),”
Young's Literal Translation · Public DomainOther passages that echo Leviticus 18:27 — 12 related verses from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.
- Leviticus 18:24Do not defile yourselves by any of these practices, for by all these things the nations I am driving out before you have defiled themselves.
- Deuteronomy 20:18so that they cannot teach you to do all the detestable things they do for their gods, and so cause you to sin against the LORD your God.
- Deuteronomy 23:18You must not bring the wages of a prostitute, whether female or male, into the house of the LORD your God to fulfill any vow, because both are detestable to the LORD your God.
- Deuteronomy 25:16For everyone who behaves dishonestly in regard to these things is detestable to the LORD your God.
- Deuteronomy 27:15‘Cursed is the man who makes a carved idol or molten image—an abomination to the LORD, the work of the hands of a craftsman—and sets it up in secret.’ And let all the people say, ‘Amen!’
- 1 Kings 14:24There were even male shrine prostitutes in the land. They imitated all the abominations of the nations the LORD had driven out before the Israelites.
- 2 Kings 16:3Instead, he walked in the ways of the kings of Israel and even sacrificed his son in the fire, according to the abominations of the nations that the LORD had driven out before the Israelites.
- 2 Kings 21:2And he did evil in the sight of the LORD by following the abominations of the nations that the LORD had driven out before the Israelites.
- 2 Chronicles 36:14Furthermore, all the leaders of the priests and the people multiplied their unfaithful deeds, following all the abominations of the nations, and they defiled the house of the LORD, which He had consecrated in Jerusalem.
- Ezekiel 16:50Thus they were haughty and committed abominations before Me. Therefore I removed them, as you have seen.
- Ezekiel 22:11One man commits an abomination with his neighbor’s wife; another wickedly defiles his daughter-in-law; and yet another violates his sister, his own father’s daughter.
- Hosea 9:10I found Israel like grapes in the wilderness. I saw your fathers as the firstfruits of the fig tree in its first season. But they went to Baal-peor, and consecrated themselves to Shame; so they became as detestable as the thing they loved.
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