Leviticus 18 · Verse 24

Leviticus 18:24

Defile not ye yourselves in any of these things: for in all these the nations are defiled which I cast out before you:
Leviticus 18:24, King James Version

Leviticus 18:24 in other translations

BSBDo not defile yourselves by any of these practices, for by all these things the nations I am driving out before you have defiled themselves.
WEB“‘Don’t defile yourselves in any of these things; for in all these the nations which I am casting out before you were defiled.
ASVDefile not ye yourselves in any of these things: for in all these the nations are defiled which I cast out from before you;
YLT‘Ye are not defiled with all these, for with all these have the nations been defiled which I am sending away from before you;
DARBYMake 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.
BBEDo not make yourself unclean in any of these ways; for so have those nations whom I am driving out from before you made themselves unclean:
WebsterDefile not ye yourselves in any of these things; for in all these the nations are defiled which I cast out before you:

What does Leviticus 18:24 mean?

Jamieson-Fausset-Brown
24. Defile not yourselves in any of these things--In the preceding verses seventeen express cases of incest are enumerated; comprehending eleven of affinity [Le 18:7-16], and six of consanguinity [Le 18:17-20], together with some criminal enormities of an aggravated and unnatural character. In such prohibitions it was necessary for the instruction of a people low in the scale of moral perception, that the enumeration should be very specific as well as minute; and then, on completing it, the divine lawgiver announces his own views of these crimes, without any exception or modification, in the remarkable terms employed in this verse. in all these the nations are defiled which I cast out before you, &c.--Ancient history gives many appalling proofs that the enormous vices described in this chapter were very prevalent, nay, were regularly practised from religious motives in the temples of Egypt and the groves of Canaan; and it was these gigantic social disorders that occasioned the expulsion, of which the Israelites were, in the hands of a righteous and retributive Providence, the appointed instruments (Ge 15:16). The strongly figurative language of "the land itself vomiting out her inhabitants" [Le 18:25], shows the hopeless depth of their moral corruption.

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Leviticus 18:24 in the original Hebrew

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אַל\־'al-may notH408
תִּֽטַּמְּא֖וּti.ta.me.'Uyou defile yourselvesH2930
בְּכָל\־be.kholby allH3605
אֵ֑לֶּה'E.lehthese [things]H428
כִּ֤יkiforH3588
בְכָל\־ve.khol-by allH3605
אֵ֙לֶּה֙'e.lehthese [things]H428
נִטְמְא֣וּnit.me.'Uthey have made themselves uncleanH2930
הַגּוֹיִ֔םha.go.Yimthe nationsH1471
אֲשֶׁר\־'a.Sher-whichH834
אֲנִ֥י'a.NiIH589
מְשַׁלֵּ֖חַme.sha.Le.ach[am] about to send awayH7971
מִפְּנֵיכֶֽם\׃mi.pe.nei.Khemfrom before youH6440

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Cross references for Leviticus 18:24

  • Deuteronomy 18:12

    For all that do these things are an abomination unto the Lord: and because of these abominations the Lord thy God doth drive them out from before thee.

  • Leviticus 18:30

    Therefore shall ye keep mine ordinance, that ye commit not any one of these abominable customs, which were committed before you, and that ye defile not yourselves therein: I am the Lord your God.

  • Leviticus 20:22-23

    Ye shall therefore keep all my statutes, and all my judgments, and do them: that the land, whither I bring you to dwell therein, spue you not out. And ye shall not walk in the manners of the nation, which I cast out before you: for they committed all these things, and therefore I abhorred them.

  • Deuteronomy 12:31

    Thou shalt not do so unto the Lord thy God: for every abomination to the Lord, which he hateth, have they done unto their gods; for even their sons and their daughters they have burnt in the fire to their gods.

  • 1 Corinthians 3:17

    If any man defile the temple of God, him shall God destroy; for the temple of God is holy, which temple ye are.

  • Leviticus 18:3

    After the doings of the land of Egypt, wherein ye dwelt, shall ye not do: and after the doings of the land of Canaan, whither I bring you, shall ye not do: neither shall ye walk in their ordinances.

  • Matthew 15:18-20

    But those things which proceed out of the mouth come forth from the heart; and they defile the man. For out of the heart proceed evil thoughts, murders, adulteries, fornications, thefts, false witness, blasphemies: These are the things which defile a man: but to eat with unwashen hands defileth not a man.

  • Jeremiah 44:4

    Howbeit I sent unto you all my servants the prophets, rising early and sending them, saying, Oh, do not this abominable thing that I hate.

  • Mark 7:10-23

    For Moses said, Honour thy father and thy mother; and, Whoso curseth father or mother, let him die the death: But ye say, If a man shall say to his father or mother, It is Corban, that is to say, a gift, by whatsoever thou mightest be profited by me; he shall be free. And ye suffer him no more to do ought for his father or his mother; Making the word of God of none effect through your tradition, which ye have delivered: and many such like things do ye. …

  • Leviticus 18:6-23

    None of you shall approach to any that is near of kin to him, to uncover their nakedness: I am the Lord. The nakedness of thy father, or the nakedness of thy mother, shalt thou not uncover: she is thy mother; thou shalt not uncover her nakedness. The nakedness of thy father’s wife shalt thou not uncover: it is thy father’s nakedness. The nakedness of thy sister, the daughter of thy father, or daughter of thy mother, whether she be born at home, or born abroad, even their nakedness thou shalt not uncover. …

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Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
Defile.
6-23,30; Jer 44:4; Mt 15:18-20; Mr 7:10-23; 1Co 3:17
for.
20:22,23; De 12:31; 18:12

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Context

  • Leviticus 18:23

    Neither shalt thou lie with any beast to defile thyself therewith: neither shall any woman stand before a beast to lie down thereto: it is confusion.

  • Leviticus 18:24

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

  • Leviticus 18:25

    And the land is defiled: therefore I do visit the iniquity thereof upon it, and the land itself vomiteth out her inhabitants.

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Leviticus 18:24 in other languages

Spanish
Reina-Valera 1909		En ninguna de estas cosas os amancillaréis; porque en todas estas cosas se han ensuciado las gentes que yo echo de delante de vosotros:
French
Bible J.N. Darby 1885		Vous ne vous rendrez point impurs par aucune de ces choses, car c’est par toutes ces choses que les nations que je chasse devant vous se sont rendues impures;
German
Elberfelder 1871		Verunreiniget euch nicht durch alles dieses; denn durch alles dieses haben die Nationen sich verunreinigt, die ich vor euch vertreibe.
Latin
Clementine Vulgate		Nec polluamini in omnibus his quibus contaminatæ sunt universæ gentes, quas ego ejiciam ante conspectum vestrum,