Leviticus - 18:28



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

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Explanation and meaning of Leviticus 18:28.

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That the land spue not you out also, when ye defile it, as it spued out the nations that were before you.
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.
that the land vomit you not out, when ye make it unclean, as it vomited out the nation that was before you.
That the land may not vomit you out also, when ye defile it, as it vomited out the nations that were before you.
and the land doth not vomit you out in your defiling it, as it hath vomited out the nation which is before you;
That the land spew not you out also, when you defile it, as it spewed out the nations that were before you.
So that the land may not put you out from it, when you make it unclean, as it put out the nations which were there before you.
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.
Ne evomat vos terra quod contaminetis eam, quemadmodum evomuit gentem quae fuit ante vos.

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That the land spue not you out also, when ye defile it, as it (o) spued out the nations that [were] before you.
(o) Both for their wicked marriages, unnatural copulations, idolatry or spiritual whoredom with Molech and such like abominations.

That the land spew not you out also, when ye defile it,.... By sinning on it, and so rendering it obnoxious to the curse of God, as the whole earth originally was for the sin of man; and so be cast out of it, as Adam was out of paradise, and as the Israelites might expect to be cast out of Canaan, as the old inhabitants of it had been:
as it spewed out the nations that were before you; which for the certainty of it is spoken of as done, though it was as yet future; and what the Lord did is ascribed to the land, the more to aggravate their crying sins and abominations, for which the land mourned, and which it could not bear.

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