Parallel Verses
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;)
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);
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);
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 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.
Cross References
Leviticus 18:24
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:
Deuteronomy 20:18
So that you may not take them as your example and do all the disgusting things which they do in the worship of their gods, so sinning against the Lord your God.
Deuteronomy 23:18
Do not take into the house of the Lord your God, as an offering for an oath, the price of a loose woman or the money given to one used for sex purposes in the worship of the gods: for these two things are disgusting to the Lord your God.
Deuteronomy 25:16
For all who do such things, and all whose ways are not upright, are disgusting to the Lord your God.
Deuteronomy 27:15
Cursed is the man who makes any image of wood or stone or metal, disgusting to the Lord, the work of man's hands, and puts it up in secret. And let all the people say, So be it.
1 Kings 14:24
And more than this, there were those in the land who were used for sex purposes in the worship of the gods, doing the same disgusting crimes as the nations which the Lord had sent out before the children of Israel.
2 Kings 16:3
But he went in the ways of the kings of Israel, and even made his son go through the fire, copying the disgusting ways of the nations whom the Lord had sent out of the land before the children of Israel.
2 Kings 21:2
He did evil in the eyes of the Lord, copying the disgusting ways of those nations whom the Lord had sent out before the children of Israel.
2 Chronicles 36:14
And more than this, all the great men of Judah and the priests and the people made their sin great, turning to all the disgusting ways of the nations; and they made unclean the house of the Lord which he had made holy in Jerusalem.
Ezekiel 16:50
They were full of pride and did what was disgusting to me: and so I took them away as you have seen.
Ezekiel 22:11
And in you one man has done what was disgusting with his neighbour's wife; and another has made his daughter-in-law unclean; and another has done wrong to his sister, his father's daughter.
Hosea 9:10
I made discovery of Israel as of grapes in the waste land; I saw your fathers as the first-fruits of the fig-tree in her early fruit time; but they came to Baal-peor, and made themselves holy to the thing of shame, and became disgusting like that to which they gave their love.