Leviticus 18:28 And if you defile the land, it will vomit you out as it vomited out the nations that were before you.

◄ Leviticus 18:28 ►

Parallel Verses

New International Version
And if you defile the land, it will vomit you out as it vomited out the nations that were before you.

English Standard Version
lest the land vomit you out when you make it unclean, as it vomited out the nation that was before you.

New American Standard Bible
so that the land will not spew you out, should you defile it, as it has spewed out the nation which has been before you.

King James Bible
That the land spue not you out also, when ye defile it, as it spued out the nations that were before you.

Holman Christian Standard Bible
If you defile the land, it will vomit you out as it has vomited out the nations that were before you.

International Standard Version
So you are not to let the land vomit you up because of your uncleanness as it is vomiting the nations that were here before you.

American Standard Version
that the land vomit not you out also, when ye defile it, as it vomited out the nation that was before you.

Douay-Rheims Bible
Beware then, lest in like manner, it vomit you also out, if you do the like things, as it vomited out the nation that was before you.

Darby Bible Translation
that the land vomit you not out, when ye make it unclean, as it vomited out the nation that was before you.

Young's Literal Translation
and the land doth not vomit you out in your defiling it, as it hath vomited out the nation which is before you;

Commentaries

Matthew Henry's Commentary

18:1-30 Unlawful marriages and fleshly lusts. - Here is a law against all conformity to the corrupt usages of the heathen. Also laws against incest, against brutal lusts, and barbarous idolatries; and the enforcement of these laws from the ruin of the Canaanites. God here gives moral precepts. Close and constant adherence to God's ordinances is the most effectual preservative from gross sin. The grace of God only will secure us; that grace is to be expected only in the use of the means of grace. Nor does He ever leave any to their hearts' lusts, till they have left him and his services.

Jamieson-Fausset-Brown

25. therefore I do visit the iniquity thereof upon it; and the land itself vomiteth out her inhabitants—The Canaanites, as enormous and incorrigible sinners, were to be exterminated; and this extermination was manifestly a judicial punishment inflicted by a ruler whose laws had been grossly and perseveringly outraged. But before a law can be disobeyed, it must have been previously in existence; and hence a law, prohibiting all the horrid crimes enumerated above—a law obligatory upon the Canaanites as well as other nations—was already known and in force before the Levitical law of incest was promulgated. Some general Iaw, then, prohibiting these crimes must have been published to mankind at a very early period of the world's history; and that law must either have been the moral law, originally written on the human heart, or a law on the institution of marriage revealed to Adam and known to the Canaanites and others by tradition or otherwise.