Leviticus 18:24

WEB

"'Do not defile yourselves in any of these things: for in all these the nations which I am casting out before you were defiled.

KJV

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

Commentary

Defile not ye yourselves in any of these things,.... In incestuous copulations and marriages, in adultery, corporeal and spiritual, and bestiality: for in all these the nations are defiled which I cast out before you; that is, the seven nations of the land of Canaan, which God was about to eject out of their land to make room for the Israelites, and that on account of the above shocking vices which abounded among them; so that in some sense the land they dwelt upon was defiled by them, and called for vengeance on them, as even loathing its inhabitants, as afterwards suggested.