Leviticus 18:25
23 You must not lie carnally with any animal, thus defiling yourself with it; a woman must not stand before an animal to mate with it; that is a perversion.
24 Do not defile yourselves by any of these practices, for by all these things the nations I am driving out before you have defiled themselves.
Even the land has become defiled, so I am punishing it for its sin, and the land will vomit out its inhabitants.
26 But you are to keep My statutes and ordinances, and you must not commit any of these abominations—neither your native-born nor the foreigner who lives among you.
27 For the men who were in the land before you committed all these abominations, and the land has become defiled.
This was said to Israel at a particular time, so it is wise to read it together with the surrounding text. Do read the surrounding verses too, because the context often says more than a single verse.
Compare
- BSB
- Even the land has become defiled, so I am punishing it for its sin, and the land will vomit out its inhabitants.
- KJV
- And the land is defiled: therefore I do visit the iniquity thereof upon it, and the land itself vomiteth out her inhabitants.
- WEB
- The land was defiled. Therefore I punished its iniquity, and the land vomited out her inhabitants.
- ASV
- And the land is defiled: therefore I do visit the iniquity thereof upon it, and the land vomiteth out her inhabitants.
- DARBY
- And the land hath become unclean; and I visit the iniquity thereof upon it, and the land vomiteth out its inhabitants.
- BLB
- And the land is defiled; and I visit the punishment of its iniquity upon it, and the land vomits out those dwelling in it.
- ÅB
- og landet ble urent, og jeg hjemsøker det for dets misgjerning, så landet utspyr sine innbyggere.
- OTB
- Landet har blitt besmittet, derfor har jeg straffet det for dets synd, og landet har spydd ut sine innbyggere.
- B1930
- og landet blev urent, og jeg hjemsøker det for dets misgjerning, så landet utspyr sine innbyggere.
Study notes (Tyndale)
Original text and word study
Cross references
Leviticus 18:28
So if you defile the land, it will vomit you out as it spewed out the nations before you.
Read in contextLeviticus 20:22–23
You are therefore to keep all My statutes and ordinances, so that the land where I am bringing you to live will not vomit you out.
Read in contextJeremiah 2:7
I brought you into a fertile land to eat its fruit and bounty, but you came and defiled My land, and made My inheritance detestable.
Read in contextJeremiah 9:9
Should I not punish them for these things? declares the LORD. Should I not avenge Myself on such a nation as this?”
Read in contextPsalms 106:38
They shed innocent blood— the blood of their sons and daughters, whom they sacrificed to the idols of Canaan, and the land was polluted with blood.
Read in contextNumbers 35:33–34
Do not pollute the land where you live, for bloodshed pollutes the land, and no atonement can be made for the land on which the blood is shed, except by the blood of the one who shed it.
Read in contextJeremiah 5:29
Should I not punish them for these things?” declares the LORD. “Should I not avenge Myself on such a nation as this?
Read in contextHosea 2:13
I will punish her for the days of the Baals when she burned incense to them, when she decked herself with rings and jewelry, and went after her lovers. But Me she forgot,” declares the LORD.
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