Leviticus 18:25

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

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 "Don't have sex with an animal and violate yourself by it. A woman must not have sex with an animal. That is perverse.

24 "Don't pollute yourself in any of these ways. This is how the nations became polluted, the ones that I am going to drive out of the land before you.

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.