Leviticus 18:27
New Revised Standard Version
(for the inhabitants of the land, who were before you, committed all of these abominations, and the land became defiled);

New American Bible
because the previous inhabitants did all these abominations and the land became defiled;

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

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

Leviticus 18:24 Defile not yourselves with any of these things with which all the nations have been defiled, which I will cast out before you,

Deuteronomy 20:18 Lest they teach you to do all the abominations which they have done to their gods: and you should sin against the Lord your God.

Deuteronomy 23:18 Thou shalt not offer the hire of a strumpet, nor the price of a dog, in the house of the Lord thy God, whatsoever it be that thou hast vowed: because both these are an abomination to the Lord thy God.

Deuteronomy 25:16 For the Lord thy God abhorreth him that doth these things, and he hateth all injustice.

Deuteronomy 27:15 Cursed be the man that maketh a graven and molten thing, the abomination of the Lord, the work of the hands of artificers, and shall put it in a secret place: and all the people shall answer and say: Amen.

1 Kings 14:24 There were also the effeminate in the land, and they did according to all the abominations of the people, whom the Lord had destroyed before the face of the children of Israel.

2 Kings 16:3 But he walked in the way of the kings of Israel: moreover, he consecrated also his son, making him pass through the fire, according to the idols of the nations which the Lord destroyed before the children of Israel.

2 Kings 21:2 And he did evil in the sight of the Lord, according to the idols of the nations, which the Lord destroyed from before the face of the children of Israel.

2 Chronicles 36:14 Moreover all the chief of the priests, and the people wickedly transgressed according to all the abominations of the Gentiles: and they defiled the house of the Lord, which he had sanctified to himself in Jerusalem.

Ezekiel 16:50 And they were lifted up, and committed abominations before me: and I took them away as thou hast seen.

Ezekiel 22:11 And every one hath committed abomination with his neighbour's wife, and the father in law hath wickedly defiled his daughter in law, the brother hath oppressed his sister the daughter of his father in thee.

Hosea 9:10 I found Israel like grapes in the desert, I saw their fathers like the firstfruits of the fig tree in the top thereof: but they went in to Beelphegor, and alienated themselves to that confusion, and became abominable, as those things were, which they loved.

Context
Unlawful Sexual Relations
26Keep ye my ordinances and my judgments: and do not any of these abominations. Neither any of your own nation, nor any stranger that sojourneth among you. 27For all these detestable things the inhabitants of the land have done, that were before you, and have defiled it.28Beware then, lest in like manner, it vomit you also out, if you do the like things: as it vomited out the nation that was before you.…
Cross References
Leviticus 18:26
Keep ye my ordinances and my judgments: and do not any of these abominations. Neither any of your own nation, nor any stranger that sojourneth among you.

Leviticus 18:28
Beware then, lest in like manner, it vomit you also out, if you do the like things: as it vomited out the nation that was before you.

Leviticus 18:26
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