Leviticus 18:24 - Forerunner Commentary

Leviticus 18:24

22 You shall not lie with ^aa male as with a woman. It is an abomination.

23 Nor shall you mate with any ^aanimal, to defile yourself with it. Nor shall any woman stand before an animal to mate with it. It is perversion.

24 ^a‘Do not defile yourselves with any of these things; ^bfor by all these the nations are defiled, which I am casting out before you.

25 For ^athe land is defiled; therefore I ^bvisit the punishment of its iniquity upon it, and the land ^cvomits out its inhabitants.

26 ^aYou shall therefore keep My statutes and My judgments, and shall not commit any of these abominations, either any of your own nation or any stranger who dwells among you

27 (for all these abominations the men of the land have done, who were before you, and thus the land is defiled),

Verse Comparison: Leviticus 18:24

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American Standard Version
Defile not ye yourselves in any of these things: for in all these the nations are defiled which I cast out from before you;

Amplified® Bible
Do not defile yourselves in any of these ways, for in all these things the nations are defiled which I am casting out before you.

Contemporary English Version
Don't make yourselves unclean by any of these disgusting practices of those nations that I am forcing out of the land for you. They made themselves

Darby English Version
Make not yourselves unclean in any of these things; for in all these have the nations which I am casting out before you made themselves unclean.

Good News Bible
Do not make yourselves unclean by any of these acts, for that is how the pagans made themselves unclean, those pagans who lived in the land before you and whom the LORD is driving out so that you can go in.

King James Version
Defile not ye yourselves in any of these things: for in all these the nations are defiled which I cast out before you:

New American Standard Bible
`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.

New International Version
" 'Do not defile yourselves in any of these ways, because this is how the nations that I am going to drive out before you became defiled.

New King James Version
"Do not defile yourselves with any of these things; for by all these the nations are defiled, which I am casting out before you.

N.A.S.B. in E-Prime
'Do not defile yourselves by any of these things; for by all these the nations which I cast out before you have become defiled.

Revised Standard Version
"Do not defile yourselves by any of these things, for by all these the nations I am casting out before you defiled themselves;

Young's Literal Translation
`Ye are not defiled with all these, for with all these have the nations been defiled which I am sending away from before you;

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