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Leviticus 18:28
28If you do these bad things, I will push you out of Canaan's land. I will send you away, like the people before you.
Leviticus 18:28 in other versions
- King James Version (KJV)That the land spue not you out also, when ye defile it, as it spued out the nations that were before you.
- New International Version (NIV)And if you defile the land, it will vomit you out as it vomited out the nations that were before you.
- English Standard Version (ESV)lest the land vomit you out when you make it unclean, as it vomited out the nation that was before you.
- New King James Version (NKJV)lest the land vomit you out also when you defile it, as it vomited out the nations that were before you.
Context of Leviticus 18:28
26But you and the foreigners with you must not do these wrong things. 27The people in Canaan did these bad things and the land became unclean. If you do these bad things, I will push you out of Canaan's land. I will send you away, like the people before you. 29You must send away any person who does any of these bad things. 30All the people must obey my rules. They must not do the bad things that the people in Canaan did. If they did them, my people would become unclean. I am the Lord your God.’
Read all of Leviticus 18Leviticus 18:28 word by word
וְלֹֽא־תָקִ֤יא הָאָ֙רֶץ֙ אֶתְכֶ֔ם בְּטַֽמַּאֲכֶ֖ם אֹתָ֑הּ כַּאֲשֶׁ֥ר קָאָ֛ה אֶת־הַגּ֖וֹי אֲשֶׁ֥ר לִפְנֵיכֶֽם׃Read the interlinear
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Cross-references for Leviticus 18:28
- Leviticus 18:25Canaan is unclean because the people did these things. This is why God pushed the people out of that land.
- Leviticus 20:22If the people want to remain in the land that I am giving to them, they must obey my laws and my rules.
- Jeremiah 9:19Listen to the people who are crying in Jerusalem! They say, “A terrible thing has happened to us! We are very ashamed! Our enemies have destroyed our houses. Now we have to leave our land.” ’
- Ezekiel 36:13This is what the Almighty Lord says: People are saying to you, Israel's land, ‘You destroy people. You take away the nation's children.’
- Romans 8:22We know that everything in the universe is still in great pain now. Everything cries together in pain, like a woman who is ready to have a baby.
- Revelation 3:16But you are only warm. Because you are neither cold nor hot, I am ready to throw you away completely.
Commentaries on Leviticus 18:28
- Barnes’ Notes on the Bible · v. 24-30Verses 24-30 The land designed and consecrated for His people by Yahweh Leviticus 25:23 is here impersonated, and represented as vomiting forth its present inhabitants, in consequence of their indulgence in the abominations that have been mentioned. The iniquity of the Canaanites was now full. See Genesis 15:16; compare Isaiah 24:1-6. The Israelites in this place, and throughout the chapter, are exhorted to a pure and holy life, on the ground that Yahweh…Read the comment
- Tyndale Open Study Notes · v. 28Just as the land spewed out the Canaanites, it would also vomit the Israelites if they behaved like the Canaanites (see study note on Leviticus 18:24–25). This happened when the Assyrians destroyed and exiled the northern kingdom in 722 BC (2 Kings 17:6). This also happened when the Babylonians destroyed and exiled Judah in 586 BC (2 Kings 25:8–21).Read the comment
- Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary · v. 1-302-4. I am the Lord your God--This renewed mention of the divine sovereignty over the Israelites was intended to bear particularly on some laws that were widely different from the social customs that obtained both in Egypt and Canaan; for the enormities, which the laws enumerated in this chapter were intended to put down, were freely practised or publicly sanctioned in both of those countries; and, indeed, the extermination of the ancient Canaanites is…Read the comment
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Commentaries on Leviticus 18
- Adam Clarke Bible Commentary
- Barnes’ Notes on the Bible
- Matthew Henry Concise Commentary
- Tyndale Open Study Notes
- Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary
- Rashi on Tanakh
- Calvin’s Commentaries
- Keil & Delitzsch Commentary
- John Wesley’s Notes
- Darby Translation Notes
- Geneva Bible Translation Notes
- Kingcomments
- Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary
- Matthew Henry’s Modern English Commentary
- Scofield Reference Notes, 1917 Edition
- Original Douay–Rheims Annotations
- Seventh-day Adventist Bible Commentary
- EGW Writings
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