Parallel Verses
Amplified
(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 men of the land who have been before you have done all these abominations, and the land has become defiled);
King James Version
(For all these abominations have the men of the land done, which were before you, and the land is defiled;)
Holman Bible
For the men who were in the land prior to you have committed all these detestable things, and the land has become defiled.
International Standard Version
because the inhabitants of the land did all of these detestable things and by doing so defiled the land before you.
A Conservative Version
(for all these abominations the men of the land have done, who were before you, and the land is defiled),
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;)
Darby Translation
(for all these abominations have the men of the land done, who were before you, and the land hath been made unclean);
Julia Smith Translation
For all these abominations did the men of the land which were before you, and the land shall be defiled.
King James 2000
(For all these abominations have the men of the land done, which were before you, and the land is defiled;)
Lexham Expanded Bible
(because the people of the land, who [were] {before you}, did all these detestable things, so the land became unclean),
Modern King James verseion
For the men of the land who were before you have done all these abominations, and the land is defiled.
Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale
- for all these abominations have the men of the land done which were there before you, and the land is defiled -
NET Bible
for the people who were in the land before you have done all these abominations, and the land has become unclean.
New Heart English Bible
(for all these abominations have the men of the land done, that were before you, and the land became defiled);
The Emphasized Bible
For all these abominations, have the men of the land done, who were before you; And so the land hath become unclean:
Webster
(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 became defiled);
Youngs Literal Translation
(for all these abominations have the men of the land done who are before you, and the land is defiled),
Themes
the Canaanites » Israel commanded » Not to follow customs of
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Word Count of 20 Translations in Leviticus 18:27
Verse Info
Context Readings
Unlawful Sexual Relations
26 But as for you, you are to keep My statutes and My judgments (precepts) and shall not commit any of these repulsive acts, neither the native-born, nor the stranger who lives temporarily among you 27 (for all these repulsive acts have been done by the men who lived in the land before you, and the land has become defiled); 28 [do none of these things] so that the land will not vomit you out, should you defile it, as it has vomited out the nation which has been before you.
Cross References
Leviticus 18:24
‘Do not defile yourselves by any of these things; for by all these the nations which I am casting out before you have become defiled.
Deuteronomy 20:18
so that they will not teach you to act in accordance with all the detestable practices which they have done [in worship and service] for their gods, and in this way cause you to sin against the Lord your God.
Deuteronomy 23:18
You shall not bring the wages of a prostitute or the price of a dog [that is, a male prostitute] into the house of the Lord your God as payment for any vow, for both of these [the gift and the giver] are utterly repulsive to the Lord your God.
Deuteronomy 25:16
For everyone who does such things, everyone who acts unjustly [without personal integrity] is utterly repulsive to the Lord your God.
Deuteronomy 27:15
‘Cursed is the man who makes a carved or cast image (idol), a repulsive thing to the Lord, the work of the hands of the artisan, and sets it up in secret.’ All the people shall answer and say, ‘Amen.’
1 Kings 14:24
There were also male cult prostitutes in the land. They committed all the repulsive acts of the nations which the Lord dispossessed before the Israelites.
2 Kings 16:3
Instead he walked in the way of the [idolatrous] kings of Israel, and even made his son pass through the fire [as a human sacrifice], in accordance with the repulsive [and idolatrous] practices of the [pagan] nations whom the Lord drove out before the Israelites.
2 Kings 21:2
He did [great] evil in the sight of the Lord, in accordance with the [idolatrous] repulsive acts of the [pagan] nations whom the Lord dispossessed before the sons (descendants) of Israel.
2 Chronicles 36:14
Also, all the officials of the priests and the people were very unfaithful, following all the repulsive acts of the [pagan] nations; and they defiled the house of the Lord which He had sanctified in Jerusalem.
Ezekiel 16:50
They were haughty and committed repulsive acts before Me; therefore I removed them when I saw it.
Ezekiel 22:11
In you one has committed a shameful act with his neighbor’s wife, another has lewdly defiled his daughter-in-law, and another has violated his sister, his father’s daughter.
Hosea 9:10
I found Israel like grapes in the wilderness [an unexpected and refreshing delight];
I saw your fathers (ancestors) as the first ripe fruit on the fig tree in its first season,
But they came to Baal-peor and consecrated themselves to shamefulness [the worship of Baal],
And [because of their spiritual and physical adultery] they became as detestable and loathsome as the thing they loved.