Leviticus 18:27 - Easy To Read Version The people who lived in the land before you did all those terrible things. So the land became filthy [333] ! Tuilleadh leaganachaKing James Version (Oxford) 1769 (for all these abominations have the men of the land done, which were before you, and the land is defiled;) Amplified Bible - Classic Edition For all these abominations have the men of the land done who were before you, and the land is defiled– American Standard Version (1901) (for all these abominations have the men of the land done, that were before you, and the land is defiled); Common English Bible because the people who had the land before you did all of these detestable things and the land became unclean), Catholic Public Domain Version For all these detestable things were done by the inhabitants of the land who were here before you, and they have polluted it. Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version For all these detestable things the inhabitants of the land have done, that; were before you, and have defiled it. |
There were men who served other gods by selling their bodies for sex. [178] So the people of Judah did many bad things. The people that had lived in the land before them did those same evil things. And God took the land away from those people and gave it to the people of Israel.
Ahaz lived like the kings of Israel. He even sacrificed his son in fire. [187] He copied the terrible sins of the nations that the Lord forced to leave the country at the time the Israelites came.
Manasseh did the things that the Lord said were wrong. Manasseh did the terrible things the other nations did. (And the Lord forced those nations to leave their country when the Israelites came.)
Also, all the leaders of the priests and the leaders of the people of Judah sinned worse and became more unfaithful to the Lord. They followed the evil example of the other nations. Those leaders ruined the Lord’s temple. {\cf2\super [453]} The Lord had made the temple holy in Jerusalem.
Sodom and her daughters became too proud and began to do terrible things in front of me. And when I saw them doing those things, I punished them.”
One man does that terrible sin against his own neighbor’s wife. Another man has sex with his own daughter-in-law and makes her unclean. {\cf2\super [171]} And another man rapes his father’s daughter—his very own sister.
At the time I found Israel, they were like fresh grapes in the desert. They were like the first figs on a fig tree at the beginning of the season. But then they came to Baal-Peor. {\cf2\super [92]} And they changed—and I had to cut them off \{(destroy them) like rotten fruit. {\cf2\super [93]} They became like the terrible things \{(false gods) that they loved.
“Don’t make yourself unclean [331] with any of those wrong things! I am throwing nations out of their countries and giving their land to you! Why? Because those people did those terrible sins!
“So you must obey my laws and rules. You must not do any of those terrible sins. Those rules are for the citizens of Israel, and they are for the people living among you!
{If you do these things,} then you will make the land filthy. And it will vomit you out like it vomited out the nations that were {there} before you.
Why? Because then they won’t be able teach you to sin against the Lord your God. They will not be able to teach you to do any of the terrible things they do when they worship their gods.
The money earned by a man [146] or woman prostitute must not be brought to the special house of the Lord your God. A person can’t use that money to pay for the things he promised to give to God. Why? Because the Lord your God hates for people to sell their bodies for sexual sin.
The Lord your God hates people that cheat with false weights and measures. Yes, he hates all people who do wrong.
‘Cursed is the person that makes a false god and puts it in its secret place. Those false gods are only statues that some worker makes from wood, stone or metal. The Lord hates those things!’