and there were also male cult prostitutes in the land. They did the same abominations as those of the nations that Adonai had driven out before the children of Israel.
Leviticus 18:27 - Tree of Life Version “For all these abominations were done by the men of the land who were before you, and the land became defiled. 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. |
and there were also male cult prostitutes in the land. They did the same abominations as those of the nations that Adonai had driven out before the children of Israel.
Instead he walked in the way of the kings of Israel, and even made his son pass through the fire, like the abominations of the nations whom Adonai had dispossessed before Bnei-Yisrael.
But he did what was evil in Adonai’s eyes, following the abominations of the nations that Adonai had dispossessed before Bnei-Yisrael.
Furthermore, all the leading kohanim and the people became very unfaithful, following all the abominations of the nations. They defiled the House of Adonai, which He had consecrated in Jerusalem.
So they were haughty and committed abomination before Me; therefore I removed them when I saw it.
One has been detestable with his neighbor’s wife; another has wickedly defiled his daughter-in-law; yet another has violated his sister, his father’s daughter, in you.
“Like grapes in the wilderness I found Israel. Like early fruit on a fig tree in its first season I saw your fathers. They came to Baal-peor and devoted themselves to shame. So they became as detestable as the thing they loved.
“Do not defile yourselves in any of these things, for in all of these ways the nations which I am casting out before you were defiled.
You, however, are to keep My statutes and My ordinances, and do none of these abominations, neither the native-born, nor the outsider dwelling among you.
If you defile it, the land will vomit you out as it vomited out the nation that was before you.
You are to do this so they will not teach you to do all the abominations as they have done for their gods, and so you would sin against Adonai your God.
“None of the daughters of Israel is to be a cult prostitute, nor any of the sons of Israel a cult prostitute.
For all who do these things, all who do injustice, are detestable to Adonai your God.
‘Cursed is the one who makes a carved or molten image—an abomination to Adonai, the work of a craftsman’s hands—and sets it up in secret.’ Then all the people are to answer and say, ‘Amen.’