📜WEB · Leviticus 18:28
What does Leviticus 18:28 mean?
"that the land not vomit you out also, when you defile it, as it vomited out the nation that was before you."
— Leviticus 18:28 (World English Bible)
Surrounding context
The land was defiled: therefore I punished its iniquity, and the land vomited out her inhabitants.
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;
(for the men of the land that were before you had done all these abominations, and the land became defiled);
that the land not vomit you out also, when you defile it, as it vomited out the nation that was before you.
“‘For whoever shall do any of these abominations, even the souls that do them shall be cut off from among their people.
Therefore you shall keep my requirements, that you do not practice any of these abominable customs, which were practiced before you, and that you do not defile yourselves with them. I am Yahweh your God.’”
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