“(for the men of the land that were before you had done all these abominations, and the land became defiled),”

Reading this verse in context

This page shows one verse on its own, which is rarely how it was written. Leviticus 18 contains 30 verses, and the sentences either side usually decide what this one means. Read the whole chapter before you quote it.

Text: World English Bible, Protestant edition (engwebp), eBible.org — public domain.