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

New Living Translation
So do not defile the land and give it a reason to vomit you out, as it will vomit out the people who live there now.

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

Berean Study Bible
So if you defile the land, it will vomit you out as it spewed out the nations before you.

New American Standard Bible
so that the land will not vomit you out should you defile it, as it has vomited out the nation which was there before you.

NASB 1995
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.

NASB 1977
so that the land may not spew you out, should you defile it, as it has spewed out the nation which has been before you.

Amplified Bible
[do none of these things] so that the land will not vomit you out, should you defile it, as it has vomited out the nation which has been before you.

Christian Standard Bible
If you defile the land, it will vomit you out as it has vomited 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.

Contemporary English Version
Then the land won't become sick of you and vomit you up, just as it did them.

Good News Translation
and then the land will not reject you, as it rejected the pagans who lived there before you.

GOD'S WORD® Translation
If you make the land unclean, it will vomit you out as it has vomited out the people who were there 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.

NET Bible
So do not make the land vomit you out because you defile it just as it has vomited out the nations that were before you.
Classic Translations
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.

New King James Version
lest the land vomit you out also when you defile it, as it vomited out the nations that were before you.

King James 2000 Bible
That the land vomit you not out also, when you defile it, as it vomited out the nations that were before you.

New Heart English Bible
that the land not vomit you out also, when you defile it, as it vomited out the nation that was before you.

World English Bible
that the land not vomit you out also, when you defile it, as it vomited out the nation that was before you.

American King James Version
That the land spew not you out also, when you defile it, as it spewed out the nations that were 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.

A Faithful Version
You shall not do these so that the land may not spew you out also when you defile it, as it spewed out the nations that were 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.

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

Webster's Bible Translation
That the land may not vomit you out also, when ye defile it, as it vomited out the nations that were before you.

Early Modern
Geneva Bible of 1587
And shall not the lande spue you out if ye defile it, as it spued out the people that were before you?)

Bishops' Bible of 1568
Shall not the lande spewe you out also if ye defile it, as it spewed out the nations that were before you?

Coverdale Bible of 1535
that the lande spue not you out also, whan ye haue defyled it, as it spewed out the Heythe, that were there before you.

Tyndale Bible of 1526
lest that the lande spewe you out when ye haue defiled it, as it spewed out the nacions that where there before you.
Literal Translations
Literal Standard Version
and the land does not vomit you out in your defiling it, as it has vomited out the nation which [is] 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;

Smith's Literal Translation
And the land shall not vomit you forth in your defiling it, as it vomited forth the nations which were before you.

Catholic Translations
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.

Catholic Public Domain Version
Therefore, beware, lest in a similar manner, it may vomit you out as well, if you do these same things, just as it vomited out the people who were before you.

Translations from Aramaic
Peshitta Holy Bible Translated
Do not defile the land, that it will not empty you out as I emptied out the people that were from before you.

Lamsa Bible
Do not defile the land, lest it cast you out as it cast out the nations that were before you.

OT Translations
JPS Tanakh 1917
that the land vomit not you out also, when ye defile it, as it vomited out the nation that was before you.

Brenton Septuagint Translation
and lest the land be aggrieved with you in your polluting it, as it was aggrieved with the nations before you.
















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