Leviticus 18:28

If you pollute the land, it will vomit you out just like it did the nations 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

27The people who lived in the land before you practiced all these disgusting things, and the land became polluted.

29Consequently anyone who does any of these disgusting things must be expelled from their people.

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Cross References

Leviticus 20:22So keep all my rules and regulations, so that the land where I'm taking you to live won't vomit you out.

Ezekiel 36:13This is what the Lord God says: Because people say to you, ‘You eat people, and rob your nation of their children,’

Romans 8:22We know that all creation groans with longing, suffering birth-pains even up 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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