Leviticus 18:28

So that the land may not put you out from it, when you make it unclean, as it put out the nations which were there before you.

Bible in Basic English

In The King James Version

That the land spue not you out also, when ye defile it, as it spued out the nations that were before you.

In Context

27(For all these disgusting things were done by the men of this country who were there before you, and the land has been made unclean by them;)

29For all those who do any of these disgusting things will be cut off from among their people.

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Cross References

Leviticus 20:22So then, keep my rules and my decisions and do them, so that the land which I am giving you as your resting-place may not violently send you out again.

Ezekiel 36:13This is what the Lord has said: Because they say to you, You, O land, are the destruction of men, causing loss of children to your nation;

Romans 8:22For we are conscious that all living things are weeping and sorrowing in pain together till now.

Matthew Henry on Leviticus 18:20-30

Laws against Iniquity. ( b. c. 1490.) 19 Also thou shalt not approach unto a woman to uncover her nakedness, as long as she is put apart for her uncleanness. 20 Moreover thou shalt not lie carnally with thy neighbour's wife, to defile thyself with her. 21 And thou shalt not let any of thy seed pass through the fire to Molech, neither shalt thou profane the name of thy God: I am the Lord . 22 Thou shalt not lie with mankind, as with womankind: it is abomination. 23 Neither shalt thou lie with any beast to defile… Read the whole commentary →

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