Leviticus 18:28

28 lest the land vomit you out, when you defile it, as it vomited out the nation that was before you.

Leviticus 18:28 Meaning and Commentary

Leviticus 18:28

That the land spew not you out also, when ye defile it
By sinning on it, and so rendering it obnoxious to the curse of God, as the whole earth originally was for the sin of man; and so be cast out of it, as Adam was out of paradise, and as the Israelites might expect to be cast out of Canaan, as the old inhabitants of it had been: as it spewed out the nations that [were] before you;
which for the certainty of it is spoken of as done, though it was as yet future; and what the Lord did is ascribed to the land, the more to aggravate their crying sins and abominations, for which the land mourned, and which it could not bear.

Leviticus 18:28 In-Context

26 But you shall keep my statutes and my ordinances and do none of these abominations, either the native or the stranger who sojourns among you

27 (for all of these abominations the men of the land did, who were before you, so that the land became defiled);

28 lest the land vomit you out, when you defile it, as it vomited out the nation that was before you.

29 For whoever shall do any of these abominations, the persons that do them shall be cut off from among their people.

30 So keep my charge never to practice any of these abominable customs which were practiced before you, and never to defile yourselves by them: I am the LORD your God."