(for all these abominations have the men of the land done, that were before you, and the land became defiled);
KJV
(For all these abominations have the men of the land done, which were before you, and the land is defiled;)
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For all these abominations have the men of the land done,.... The then present inhabitants of Canaan, who dwelt in it before the Israelites came into it; these were guilty of unclean copulations, of incestuous, marriages, of fornication and adultery, and of bestiality and idolatry:
which were before you; lived in the land before them, had long dwelt there, but now about to be cast out for their sins; and therefore they who were going to succeed them should take warning by them, lest, committing the same sins, they should be cast out likewise:
and the land is defiled; See Gill on
Lev 18:25
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