"And the land is defiled: therefore I do visit the iniquity thereof upon it, and the land itself vomiteth out her inhabit…" — Leviticus 18:25

Leviticus 18:25 · KJV

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

— Leviticus 18:25

Verse 24

Defile not ye yourselves in any of these things: for in all these the nations are defiled which I cast out before you:

Verse 26

Ye shall therefore keep my statutes and my judgments, and shall not commit {any} of these abominations; {neither} any of your own nation, nor any stranger that sojourneth among you:

Leviticus 18 — Context

Neither shalt thou lie with any beast to defile thyself therewith: neither shall any woman stand before a beast to lie down thereto: it {is} confusion.

Defile not ye yourselves in any of these things: for in all these the nations are defiled which I cast out before you:

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

Ye shall therefore keep my statutes and my judgments, and shall not commit {any} of these abominations; {neither} any of your own nation, nor any stranger that sojourneth among you:

(For all these abominations have the men of the land done, which {were} before you, and the land is defiled;)

Cross References

Leviticus 18:28

That the land spue not you out also, when ye defile it, as it spued out the nations that {were} before you.

Leviticus 20:22-23

Ye shall therefore keep all my statutes, and all my judgments, and do them: that the land, whither I bring you to dwell therein, spue you not out.

Jeremiah 2:7

And I brought you into a plentiful country, to eat the fruit thereof and the goodness thereof; but when ye entered, ye defiled my land, and made mine heritage an abomination. {a plentiful...: or, the land of Carmel}

Jeremiah 9:9

Shall I not visit them for these {things}? saith the LORD: shall not my soul be avenged on such a nation as this?

Psalms 106:38

And shed innocent blood, {even} the blood of their sons and of their daughters, whom they sacrificed unto the idols of Canaan: and the land was polluted with blood.

Numbers 35:33-34

So ye shall not pollute the land wherein ye {are}: for blood it defileth the land: and the land cannot be cleansed of the blood that is shed therein, but by the blood of him that shed it. {the land cannot...: Heb. there can be no expiation for the land}

Jeremiah 16:18

And first I will recompense their iniquity and their sin double; because they have defiled my land, they have filled mine inheritance with the carcases of their detestable and abominable things.

Ezekiel 36:17-18

Son of man, when the house of Israel dwelt in their own land, they defiled it by their own way and by their doings: their way was before me as the uncleanness of a removed woman.