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Unlawful Sexual Relations

Leviticus 18:28

In 11 translations

BSB
So if you defile the land, it will vomit you out as it spewed out the nations before you.
KJV
That the land spue not you out also, when ye defile it, as it spued out the nations that were before you.
WEB
that the land not vomit you out also, when you defile it, as it vomited out the nation that was before you.
ASV
that the land vomit not you out also, when ye defile it, as it vomited out the nation that was before you.
LSV
and the land does not vomit you out in your defiling it, as it has vomited out the nation which [is] before you;
YLT
and the land doth not vomit you out in your defiling it, as it hath vomited out the nation which [is] before you;
DBY
that the land vomit you not out, when ye make it unclean, as it vomited out the nation that was before you.
DRC
Beware then, lest in like manner, it vomit you also out, if you do the like things, as it vomited out the nation that was before you.
GNV
And shall not the lande spue you out if ye defile it, as it spued out the people that were before you?)
JPS
that the land vomit not you out also, when ye defile it, as it vomited out the nation that was before you.
LXXE
and lest the land be aggrieved with you in your polluting it, as it was aggrieved with the nations before you.

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Words in brackets are English the glossers added; the Hebrew has no word for them, and they can carry a choice of tense or meaning.

Original-language editions

WLC
וְלֹֽא־תָקִ֤יא הָאָ֨רֶץ֙ אֶתְכֶ֔ם בְּטַֽמַּאֲכֶ֖ם אֹתָ֑הּ כַּאֲשֶׁ֥ר קָאָ֛ה אֶת־הַגּ֖וֹי אֲשֶׁ֥ר לִפְנֵיכֶֽם׃
LXX-Br
καὶ ἵνα μὴ προσοχθίσῃ ὑμῖν ἡ γῆ ἐν τῷ μιαίνειν ὑμᾶς αὐτὴν, ὃν τρόπον προσώχθισε τοῖς ἔθνεσι τοῖς πρὸ ὑμῶν.

In the reference works topics that cite this verse

From public-domain Bible dictionaries and topical indexes (1884–1915).

Cross-references most cited first

  • Revelation 3:16So because you are lukewarm—neither hot nor cold—I am about to vomit you out of My mouth!
  • Leviticus 18:25Even the land has become defiled, so I am punishing it for its sin, and the land will vomit out its inhabitants.
  • Leviticus 20:22You are therefore to keep all My statutes and ordinances, so that the land where I am bringing you to live will not vomit you out.
  • Ezekiel 36:17“Son of man, when the people of Israel lived in their land, they defiled it by their own ways and deeds. Their behavior before Me was like the uncleanness of a woman’s impurity.
  • Jeremiah 9:19For the sound of wailing is heard from Zion: ‘How devastated we are! How great is our shame! For we have abandoned the land because our dwellings have been torn down.’”
  • Ezekiel 36:13For this is what the Lord GOD says: Because people say to you, ‘You devour men and deprive your nation of its children,’
  • Romans 8:22We know that the whole creation has been groaning together in the pains of childbirth until the present time.

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