Leviticus 18:25 “Even the land has become defiled, so I am punishing it for its sin, an…”

Leviticus 18:25

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

Berean Standard Bible

Other translations

King James Version

And the land is defiled: therefore I do visit the iniquity thereof upon it, and the land itself vomiteth out her inhabitants.

World English Bible

The land was defiled. Therefore I punished its iniquity, and the land vomited out her inhabitants.

American Standard Version

and the land is defiled: therefore I do visit the iniquity thereof upon it, and the land vomiteth out her inhabitants.

Geneva Bible 1599

And the land is defiled: therefore I wil visit the wickednesse thereof vpon it, and the lande shall vomit out her inhabitants.

Darby Translation

And the land hath become unclean; and I visit the iniquity thereof upon it, and the land vomiteth out its inhabitants.

Young's Literal Translation

and the land is defiled, and I charge its iniquity upon it, and the land vomiteth out its inhabitants:

Bible in Basic English

And the land itself has become unclean; so that I have sent on it the reward of its wrongdoing, and the land itself puts out those who are living in it.

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Cross references

“the land”

Jeremiah 2:7 Psalm 106:38 Jeremiah 16:18 Isaiah 24:5 Romans 8:22 Numbers 35:33

Jeremiah 2:7 · BSB

I brought you into a fertile land to eat its fruit and bounty, but you came and defiled My land and made My inheritance detestable.

Psalm 106:38 · BSB

They shed innocent blood— the blood of their sons and daughters, whom they sacrificed to the idols of Canaan, and the land was polluted with blood.

Jeremiah 16:18 · BSB

And I will first repay them double their iniquity and their sin, because they have defiled My land with the carcasses of their detestable idols, and they have filled My inheritance with their abominations.”

Isaiah 24:5 · BSB

The earth is defiled by its people; they have transgressed the laws; they have overstepped the decrees and broken the everlasting covenant.

Romans 8:22 · BSB

We know that the whole creation has been groaning together in the pains of childbirth until the present time.

Numbers 35:33 · BSB

Do not pollute the land where you live, for bloodshed pollutes the land, and no atonement can be made for the land on which the blood is shed, except by the blood of the one who shed it.

“therefore”

Jeremiah 9:9 Isaiah 26:21 Jeremiah 5:9 Jeremiah 5:29 Jeremiah 14:10 Jeremiah 23:2

Jeremiah 9:9 · BSB

Should I not punish them for these things? declares the LORD. Should I not avenge Myself on such a nation as this?”

Isaiah 26:21 · BSB

For behold, the LORD is coming out of His dwelling to punish the inhabitants of the earth for their iniquity. The earth will reveal her bloodshed and will no longer conceal her slain.

Jeremiah 5:9 · BSB

Should I not punish them for these things?” declares the LORD. “Should I not avenge Myself on such a nation as this?

Jeremiah 5:29 · BSB

Should I not punish them for these things?” declares the LORD. “Should I not avenge Myself on such a nation as this?

Jeremiah 14:10 · BSB

This is what the LORD says about this people: “Truly they love to wander; they have not restrained their feet. So the LORD does not accept them; He will now remember their iniquity and punish them for their sins.”

Jeremiah 23:2 · BSB

Therefore this is what the LORD, the God of Israel, says about the shepherds who tend My people: “You have scattered My flock and driven them away, and have not attended to them. Behold, I will attend to you for the evil…

“vomiteth”

Leviticus 18:28 Leviticus 20:22

Leviticus 18:28 · BSB

So if you defile the land, it will vomit you out as it spewed out the nations before you.

Leviticus 20:22 · BSB

You are therefore to keep all My statutes and ordinances, so that the land where I am bringing you to live will not vomit you out.

Also

Deuteronomy 18:12 Deuteronomy 9:5

Deuteronomy 18:12 · BSB

For whoever does these things is detestable to the LORD. And because of these detestable things, the LORD your God is driving out the nations before you.

Deuteronomy 9:5 · BSB

It is not because of your righteousness or uprightness of heart that you are going in to possess their land, but it is because of their wickedness that the LORD your God is driving out these nations before you, to keep t…

Cross references adapted from OpenBible.info (CC BY 4.0) and the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.

In context

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

26But you are to keep My statutes and ordinances, and you must not commit any of these abominations—neither your native-born nor the foreigner who lives among you.

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