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What does Leviticus 18:25 mean?

"The land was defiled: therefore I punished its iniquity, and the land vomited out her inhabitants."

— Leviticus 18:25 (World English Bible)

Surrounding context

22

“‘You shall not lie with a man, as with a woman. That is detestable.

23

“‘You shall not lie with any animal to defile yourself with it. No woman may give herself to an animal, to lie down with it: it is a perversion.

24

“‘Don’t defile yourselves in any of these things: for in all these the nations which I am casting out before you were defiled.

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The land was defiled: therefore I punished its iniquity, and the land vomited out her inhabitants.

26

You therefore shall keep my statutes and my ordinances, and shall not do any of these abominations; neither the native-born, nor the stranger who lives as a foreigner among you;

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(for the men of the land that were before you had done all these abominations, and the land became defiled);

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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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