Leviticus 18 · Verse 25

Leviticus 18:25

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, King James Version

Leviticus 18:25 in other translations

BSBEven the land has become defiled, so I am punishing it for its sin, and the land will vomit out its inhabitants.
WEBThe land was defiled. Therefore I punished its iniquity, and the land vomited out her inhabitants.
ASVand the land is defiled: therefore I do visit the iniquity thereof upon it, and the land vomiteth out her inhabitants.
YLTand the land is defiled, and I charge its iniquity upon it, and the land vomiteth out its inhabitants:
DARBYAnd the land hath become unclean; and I visit the iniquity thereof upon it, and the land vomiteth out its inhabitants.
BBEAnd 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.
WebsterAnd the land is defiled: therefore I do visit its iniquity upon it, and the land itself vomiteth out her inhabitants.

What does Leviticus 18:25 mean?

Jamieson-Fausset-Brown
25. therefore I do visit the iniquity thereof upon it; and the land itself vomiteth out her inhabitants--The Canaanites, as enormous and incorrigible sinners, were to be exterminated; and this extermination was manifestly a judicial punishment inflicted by a ruler whose laws had been grossly and perseveringly outraged. But before a law can be disobeyed, it must have been previously in existence; and hence a law, prohibiting all the horrid crimes enumerated above--a law obligatory upon the Canaanites as well as other nations--was already known and in force before the Levitical law of incest was promulgated. Some general Iaw, then, prohibiting these crimes must have been published to mankind at a very early period of the world's history; and that law must either have been the moral law, originally written on the human heart, or a law on the institution of marriage revealed to Adam and known to the Canaanites and others by tradition or otherwise.

Robert Jamieson, A. R. Fausset & David Brown, 1871 · public domain

Adam Clarke's Commentary
Verse 25 The land itself vomiteth out her inhabitants - This is a very nervous prosopopoeia or personification; a figure by which any part of inanimate nature may be represented as possessing the passions and reason of man. Here the land is represented as an intelligent being, with a deep and refined sense of moral good and evil: information concerning the abominations of the people is brought to this personified land, with which it is so deeply affected that a nausea is produced, and it vomits out its abominable and accursed inhabitants. It was natural for the inspired penman to make use of such a figure, as the description he was obliged to give of so many and enormous abominations must have affected him nearly in the same way in which he represents the land to be affected.

Adam Clarke, 1831 · public domain

Leviticus 18:25 in the original Hebrew

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וַתִּטְמָ֣אva.tit.Ma'and it became uncleanH2930
הָאָ֔רֶץha.'A.retzthe landH776
וָאֶפְקֹ֥דva.'ef.Kodand I visitedH6485
עֲוֹנָ֖הּ'a.vo.Nahiniquity itsH5771
עָלֶ֑יהָ'a.Lei.haon itH5921
וַתָּקִ֥אva.ta.Ki'and it vomited upH6958
הָאָ֖רֶץha.'A.retzthe landH776
אֶת\־'et-<obj.>H853
יֹשְׁבֶֽיהָ\׃yo.she.Vei.hainhabitants itsH3427

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Cross references for Leviticus 18:25

  • 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. And ye shall not walk in the manners of the nation, which I cast out before you: for they committed all these things, and therefore I abhorred them.

  • 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.

  • 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. Defile not therefore the land which ye shall inhabit, wherein I dwell: for I the Lord dwell among the children of Israel.

  • Jeremiah 5:29

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

  • Hosea 2:13

    And I will visit upon her the days of Baalim, wherein she burned incense to them, and she decked herself with her earrings and her jewels, and she went after her lovers, and forgat me, saith the Lord.

  • 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.

  • Isaiah 26:21

    For, behold, the Lord cometh out of his place to punish the inhabitants of the earth for their iniquity: the earth also shall disclose her blood, and shall no more cover her slain.

  • Jeremiah 14:10

    Thus saith the Lord unto this people, Thus have they loved to wander, they have not refrained their feet, therefore the Lord doth not accept them; he will now remember their iniquity, and visit their sins.

  • 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. Wherefore I poured my fury upon them for the blood that they had shed upon the land, and for their idols wherewith they had polluted it:

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the land.
Nu 35:33,34; Ps 106:38; Isa 24:5; Jer 2:7; 16:18; Eze 36:17,18
Ro 8:22
therefore.
Ps 89:32; Isa 26:21; Jer 5:9,29; 9:9; 14:10; 23:2; Ho 2:13; 8:13; 9:9
vomiteth.
28; 20:22

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Context

  • Leviticus 18:24

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

  • Leviticus 18:25

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

  • Leviticus 18:26

    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:

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Leviticus 18:25 in other languages

Spanish
Reina-Valera 1909		Y la tierra fué contaminada; y yo visité su maldad sobre ella, y la tierra vomitó sus moradores.
French
Bible J.N. Darby 1885		et le pays s’est rendu impur; et je punis sur lui son iniquité, et le pays vomit ses habitants.
German
Elberfelder 1871		Und das Land wurde verunreinigt, und ich suchte seine Ungerechtigkeit an ihm heim, und das Land spie seine Bewohner aus.
Latin
Clementine Vulgate		et quibus polluta est terra: cujus ego scelera visitabo, ut evomat habitatores suos.