Leviticus 18:25

25 The land has become defiled, so I am punishing it for its sin, and the land will vomit out its inhabitants.^[a]

Leviticus 18:25 Meaning and Commentary

Leviticus 18:25

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 ) .

Leviticus 18:25 In-Context

23 You are not to have sexual intercourse with any animal, defiling yourself with it; a woman is not to present herself to an animal to mate with it; it is a perversion.

24 "Do not defile yourselves by any of these [practices], for the nations I am driving out before you have defiled themselves by all these things.

25 The land has become defiled, so I am punishing it for its sin, and the land will vomit out its inhabitants.

26 But you are to keep My statutes and ordinances. You must not commit any of these abominations-not the native or the foreigner who lives among you.

27 For the men who were in the land prior to you have committed all these abominations, and the land has become defiled.

Footnotes

• [a]. Nm 35:33-34; Dt 9:4; Ezr 9:11; Isa 24:5-6