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Leviticus 18:25

For the land is unclean. So I have punished its sin. The land has spit out its people.

Bible Study Resources

Concordances:

- Nave's Topical Bible - Canaanites;   Heathen;   Judgments;   Wicked (People);   Thompson Chain Reference - Canaan, Land of;   Land;   The Topic Concordance - Defilement;   Torrey's Topical Textbook - Holy Land;   Sin-Offering;   Sins, National;  

Dictionaries:

- American Tract Society Bible Dictionary - Affinity;   Marriage;   Baker Evangelical Dictionary of Biblical Theology - Amos, Theology of;   Clean, Unclean;   Worship;   Fausset Bible Dictionary - Pentateuch;   Punishments;   Holman Bible Dictionary - Ethics;   Incest;   Leviticus;   Pentateuch;   Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible - Canon of the Old Testament;   Congregation, Assembly;   Crimes and Punishments;   Deuteronomy;   Hexateuch;   Holiness;   Law;   Leviticus;   Marriage;   Priests and Levites;   Sanctification, Sanctify;   People's Dictionary of the Bible - Abram;  

Encyclopedias:

- International Standard Bible Encyclopedia - Law in the Old Testament;   Leviticus;   The Jewish Encyclopedia - Banishment;   Holiness;   Judaism;   Judgment, Divine;  

Parallel Translations

Hebrew Names Version
The land was defiled: therefore I punished its iniquity, and the land vomitted out her inhabitants.
King James Version
And the land is defiled: therefore I do visit the iniquity thereof upon it, and the land itself vomiteth out her inhabitants.
Lexham English Bible
So the land became unclean, and I have brought the punishment of its guilt upon it, and the land has vomited out its inhabitants.
New Century Version
The land has become unclean, and I punished it for its sins, so the land is throwing out those people who live there.
New English Translation
Therefore the land has become unclean and I have brought the punishment for its iniquity upon it, so that the land has vomited out its inhabitants.
Amplified Bible
'For the land has become defiled; therefore I have brought its punishment upon it, and the land vomits out its inhabitants.
New American Standard Bible
'For the land has become defiled, therefore I have brought its punishment upon it, so the land has vomited out its inhabitants.
Geneva Bible (1587)
And the land is defiled: therefore I wil visit the wickednesse thereof vpon it, and the lande shall vomit out her inhabitants.
Legacy Standard Bible
So the land has become defiled, and I have brought its punishment upon it. And the land has vomited out its inhabitants.
Contemporary English Version
and the land so unclean, that I punished the land because of their sins, and I made it vomit them up.
Complete Jewish Bible
The land has become unclean, and this is why I am punishing it — the land itself will vomit out its inhabitants.
Darby Translation
And the land hath become unclean; and I visit the iniquity thereof upon it, and the land vomiteth out its inhabitants.
Easy-to-Read Version
They made the land filthy. Now the land is sick of those things, and it will vomit out the people who live there.
English Standard Version
and the land became unclean, so that I punished its iniquity, and the land vomited out its inhabitants.
George Lamsa Translation
And the land is defiled; therefore I do visit the iniquity thereof upon it so that the land is bereaved of its inhabitants.
Good News Translation
Their actions made the land unclean, and so the Lord is punishing the land and making it reject the people who lived there.
Christian Standard Bible®
The land has become defiled, so I am punishing it for its iniquity, and the land will vomit out its inhabitants.
Literal Translation
and the land is defiled, and I will visit its iniquity on it; and the land is vomiting out those living in it ;
Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
and the londe is defyled there thorow. And their wickednesse wyl I vyset vpo them, so that the londe shal spue out the indwellers therof.
American Standard Version
and the land is defiled: therefore I do visit the iniquity thereof upon it, and the land vomiteth out her inhabitants.
Bible in Basic English
And the land itself has become unclean; so that I have sent on it the reward of its wrongdoing, and the land itself puts out those who are living in it.
Bishop's Bible (1568)
Wherthrough the lande is defiled, and I wyll visite the wyckednesse thereof vpon it, yea and the lande it selfe hath vomited out her inhabitauntes.
JPS Old Testament (1917)
And the land was defiled, therefore I did visit the iniquity thereof upon it, and the land vomited out her inhabitants.
King James Version (1611)
And the land is defiled: Therefore I doe visit the iniquitie thereof vpon it, and the land it selfe vomiteth out her inhabitants.
Brenton's Septuagint (LXX)
and the land is polluted; and I have recompensed their iniquity to them because of it, and the land is aggrieved with them that dwell upon it.
English Revised Version
And the land is defiled: therefore I do visit the iniquity thereof upon it, and the land vomiteth out her inhabitants.
Berean Standard Bible
Even the land has become defiled, so I am punishing it for its sin, and the land will vomit out its inhabitants.
Wycliffe Bible (1395)
of whiche the lond is defoulid, of which lond Y schal vysyte the grete synnes, that it spewe out hise dwellers.
Young's Literal Translation
and the land is defiled, and I charge its iniquity upon it, and the land vomiteth out its inhabitants:
Update Bible Version
And the land is defiled: therefore I visit the iniquity thereof on it, and the land vomits out her inhabitants.
Webster's Bible Translation
And the land is defiled: therefore I do visit its iniquity upon it, and the land itself vomiteth out her inhabitants.
World English Bible
The land is defiled: therefore I do visit the iniquity of it on it, and the land vomits out her inhabitants.
New King James Version
For the land is defiled; therefore I visit the punishment of its iniquity upon it, and the land vomits out its inhabitants.
New Living Translation
Because the entire land has become defiled, I am punishing the people who live there. I will cause the land to vomit them out.
New Revised Standard
Thus the land became defiled; and I punished it for its iniquity, and the land vomited out its inhabitants.
J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
Therefore hath the land become unclean, and I have visited the iniquity thereof upon it, - and the land hath vomited her inhabitants.
Douay-Rheims Bible
And with which the land is defiled: the abominations of which I will visit, that it may vomit out its inhabitants.
Revised Standard Version
and the land became defiled, so that I punished its iniquity, and the land vomited out its inhabitants.
New American Standard Bible (1995)
'For the land has become defiled, therefore I have brought its punishment upon it, so the land has spewed out its inhabitants.

Contextual Overview

19 ‘And you are not to go near a woman to take off her clothes during the time when she has a flow of blood. 20 Do not have sex with your neighbor's wife. You would be unclean. 21 Do not give any of your children as a gift on an altar to the false god Molech. Do not put the name of your God to shame. I am the Lord. 22 Do not lie with a man as one lies with a woman. It is a sinful thing. 23 Do not have sex with any animal, or you will be unclean. And no woman should give herself to an animal to lie with it. It is a sin. 24 ‘Do not allow yourself to sin in any of these ways. For by doing all these things the nations that I am driving out in front of you became unclean. 25 For the land is unclean. So I have punished its sin. The land has spit out its people. 26 But as for you, you are to keep My Laws and do what I have decided. Do not do any of these sinful things, not you or the man who lives among you from another land. 27 For the men who have lived in the land before you have done all of these sinful things. The land is unclean. 28 Do none of these things or the land will spit you out when you make it sinful, as it has spit out the nation that was before you.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

the land: Numbers 35:33, Numbers 35:34, Psalms 106:38, Isaiah 24:5, Jeremiah 2:7, Jeremiah 16:18, Ezekiel 36:17, Ezekiel 36:18, Romans 8:22

therefore: Psalms 89:32, Isaiah 26:21, Jeremiah 5:9, Jeremiah 5:29, Jeremiah 9:9, Jeremiah 14:10, Jeremiah 23:2, Hosea 2:13, Hosea 8:13, Hosea 9:9

vomiteth: Leviticus 18:28, Leviticus 20:22

Reciprocal: Exodus 22:19 - General Leviticus 20:16 - And if a woman Deuteronomy 9:4 - for the wickedness Deuteronomy 21:23 - thy land Joshua 22:19 - unclean 1 Kings 21:26 - according to 2 Kings 21:2 - after the abominations Jeremiah 9:19 - our Ezekiel 33:26 - and shall

Cross-References

Genesis 18:1
The Lord showed Himself to Abraham by the oak trees of Mamre, as he sat at the tent door in the heat of the day.
Genesis 18:2
Abraham looked up and saw three men standing in front of him. When he saw them, he ran from the tent door to meet them. He put his face to the ground
Genesis 18:5
And I will get a piece of bread so you may eat and get strength. After that you may go on your way, since you have come to your servant." The men said, "Do as you have said."
Genesis 18:6
So Abraham ran into the tent to Sarah, and said, "Hurry and get three pails of fine flour, mix it well, and make bread."
Genesis 18:7
Then Abraham ran to the cattle and took out a young and good calf. He gave it to the servant to make it ready in a hurry.
Genesis 18:10
The Lord said, "I will be sure to return to you at this time next year. And your wife Sarah will have a son." Sarah was listening at the tent door behind him.
Genesis 18:11
Now Abraham and Sarah were old. They had lived many years. The way of women had stopped for Sarah.
Genesis 18:12
So Sarah laughed to herself, saying, "Will I have this joy after my husband and I have grown old?"
Genesis 18:13
Then the Lord said to Abraham, "Why did Sarah laugh and say, ‘How can I give birth to a child when I am so old?'
Genesis 18:17
And the Lord said, "Should I hide from Abraham what I am about to do,

Gill's Notes on the Bible

And the land is defiled,.... The inhabitants of it, with the immoralities and idolatries before mentioned:

therefore I do visit the iniquity thereof upon it; or punish the inhabitants that are on it for their sins:

and the land itself vomiteth out her inhabitants; as a stomach loaded with corrupt and bad food it has taken in, nauseates it, and cannot bear and retain it, but casts it up, and never receives it again; so the land of Canaan is represented as loathing its inhabitants, and as having an aversion to them, and indignation against them, and as not being able to bear them, but entirely willing to be rid of them and throw them out of their places in it, never to be admitted more, being as nauseous and as useless as the cast of a man's stomach; see Revelation 3:16.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

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, the Holy One, is their God and that they are His people. Compare Leviticus 19:2. It is upon this high sanction that they are peremptorily forbidden to defile themselves with the pollutions of the pagan. The only punishment here pronounced upon individual transgressors is, that they shall “bear their iniquity” and be “cut off from among their people.” We must understand this latter phrase as expressing an “ipso facto” excommunication or outlawry, the divine Law pronouncing on the offender an immediate forfeiture of the privileges which belonged to him as one of the people in covenant with Yahweh. See Exodus 31:14 note. The course which the Law here takes seems to be first to appeal to the conscience of the individual man on the ground of his relation to Yahweh, and then Leviticus 20:0 to enact such penalties as the order of the state required, and as represented the collective conscience of the nation put into operation.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse Leviticus 18:25. The land itself vomiteth out her inhabitants. — This is a very nervous prosopopoeia or personification; a figure by which any part of inanimate nature may be represented as possessing the passions and reason of man. Here the land is represented as an intelligent being, with a deep and refined sense of moral good and evil: information concerning the abominations of the people is brought to this personified land, with which it is so deeply affected that a nausea is produced, and it vomits out its abominable and accursed inhabitants. It was natural for the inspired penman to make use of such a figure, as the description he was obliged to give of so many and enormous abominations must have affected him nearly in the same way in which he represents the land to be affected.


 
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