Leviticus 18:28

Therefore, beware, lest in a similar manner, it may vomit you out as well, if you do these same things, just as it vomited out the people who were before you.

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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

27For all these detestable things were done by the inhabitants of the land who were here before you, and they have polluted it.

29Every soul who shall commit any of these abominations shall perish from the midst of his people.

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Cross References

Leviticus 20:22Observe my laws as well as my judgments, and act according to them, lest the land, into which you will enter and live, may vomit you out, too.

Ezekiel 36:13Thus says the Lord God: Because they are saying about you, ‘You are a woman who devours men, and you are strangling your own nation,’

Romans 8:22For we know that every creature groans inwardly, as if giving birth, even until 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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