Leviticus Chapter 18 verse 24 Holy Bible

ASV Leviticus 18:24

Defile not ye yourselves in any of these things: for in all these the nations are defiled which I cast out from before you;
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BBE Leviticus 18:24

Do 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:
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DARBY Leviticus 18:24

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.
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KJV 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:
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WBT 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:
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WEB Leviticus 18:24

"'Don't defile yourselves in any of these things: for in all these the nations which I am casting out before you were defiled.
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YLT Leviticus 18:24

`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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Pulpit Commentary

Pulpit CommentaryVerses 24-30. - These verses contain a warning against the sins of incest and impurity already specified. The reason why the Canaanites were east out before the Israelites was that they were defiled in all these things,... and the land was defiled by them. God visited the iniquity of these debased races, and the land itself vomited out her inhabitants on account of their abominations. The fate of the Canaanites was therefore a witness to them of what would be their fate if they did like them. Defile not ye yourselves in any of these things.... Ye shall not commit any of these abominations,... that the land spue not you out also, when ye defile it. Special penalties are appointed for particular sins further on. Here there are but two punishments denounced, one for individual sinners, the other national. The individual sinner is to be cut off from the nation by excommunication, For whosoever shall commit any of these abominations, even the souls that commit them shall be cut off from among their people. The nation, if it does not thus purify itself by cutting off from itself the authors of these corruptions, is to perish like the Canaanites. The words vomiteth (verse 25) and spued out (verse 28) are in that tense of the Hebrew verb which is generally called by grammarians a preterite, but this tense does not necessarily imply a past time; the time referred to depends on the context. The previous verbs, "I cast out," "I do visit," being present in sense, the two verbs, "vomiteth out (her inhabitants)," and "spued out (the nations that were before you)," are present also (see Introduction).

Ellicott's Commentary

Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers(24) Defile not ye yourselves.--The Lawgiver who solemnly introduced these precepts by five verses of preamble at the beginning of the chapter (Leviticus 18:1-5), now concludes by an equally solemn appeal to God's people sacredly to observe them in all their integrity, since the violation of them (Leviticus 18:6-23) has branded those nations with infamy, and brought about their national destruction, and expulsion from the very land which is now to be given to the Israelites.