Leviticus 18:25-30

25 Even the land itself became polluted and I punished it for its iniquities - the land vomited up its inhabitants.

26 You must keep my decrees and laws - natives and foreigners both. You must not do any of these abhorrent things.

27 The people who lived in this land before you arrived did all these things and polluted the land.

28 And if you pollute it, the land will vomit you up just as it vomited up the nations that preceded you.

29 "Those who do any of these abhorrent things will be cut off from their people.

30 Keep to what I tell you; don't engage in any of the abhorrent acts that were practiced before you came. Don't pollute yourselves with them. I am God, your God."

Leviticus 18:25-30 Meaning and Commentary

INTRODUCTION TO LEVITICUS 18

In this chapter the Israelites are directed in general not to imitate the customs and practices of the Egyptians and Canaanites, but to keep the ordinances, statutes, and judgments of the Lord, Le 18:1-5; and they are instructed particularly to avoid incestuous marriages, Le 18:6-18; carnal copulation with a menstruous woman, Le 18:19; adultery, Le 18:20; letting any of their seed pass through the fire to Molech, Le 18:21; sodomy, Le 18:22; and bestiality, Le 18:23; and they are deterred from these things by observing to them the pollution and destruction which they brought on the inhabitants of Canaan, and would bring the same on them should they commit them, Le 18:24-30.