English Standard Version
Leviticus 18:28
28lest the land vomit you out when you make it unclean, as it vomited out the nation that was 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.
- 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.
- New Living Translation (NLT)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.
Context of Leviticus 18:28
26But you shall keep my statutes and my rules and do none of these abominations, either the native or the stranger who sojourns among you 27(for the people of the land, who were before you, did all of these abominations, so that the land became unclean), lest the land vomit you out when you make it unclean, as it vomited out the nation that was before you. 29For everyone who does any of these abominations, the persons who do them shall be cut off from among their people. 30So keep my charge never to practice any of these abominable customs that were practiced before you, and never to make yourselves unclean by them: 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 18:25and the land became unclean, so that I punished its iniquity, and the land vomited out its inhabitants.
- Leviticus 20:22"You shall therefore keep all my statutes and all my rules and do them, that the land where I am bringing you to live may not vomit you out.
- Jeremiah 9:19For a sound of wailing is heard from Zion: 'How we are ruined! We are utterly shamed, because we have left the land, because they have cast down our dwellings.'"
- Ezekiel 36:13Thus says the Lord God: Because they say to you, 'You devour people, and you bereave your nation of children,'
- Romans 8:22For we know that the whole creation has been groaning together in the pains of childbirth until now.
- Revelation 3:16So, because you are lukewarm, and neither hot nor cold, I will spit you out of my mouth.
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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