Leviticus 18:24

Warning against the Abominations of the Nations

18:24 “‘Do not defile yourselves with any of these things, for the nations which I am about to drive out before you ¹  have been defiled with all these things.

Leviticus 18:28

18:28 So do not make the land vomit you out because you defile it ²  just as it has vomited out the nations ³  that were before you.

Leviticus 25:44

25:44 “‘As for your male and female slaves ⁴  who may belong to you – you may buy male and female slaves from the nations all around you. ⁵ 

Leviticus 26:33

26:33 I will scatter you among the nations and unsheathe the sword ⁶  after you, so your land will become desolate and your cities will become a waste.

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¹ tn Heb “which I am sending away (Piel participle of שָׁלַח [shalakh, “to send”]) from your faces.” The rendering here takes the participle as anticipatory of the coming conquest events.

² tn Heb “And the land will not vomit you out in your defiling it.”

³ tc The MT reads the singular “nation” and is followed by ASV, NASB, NRSV; the LXX, Syriac, and Targum have the plural “nations” (cf. v. 24).

⁴ tn Heb “And your male slave and your female slave.” Smr has these as plural terms, “slaves,” not singular.

⁵ tn Heb “ from the nations which surround you, from them you shall buy male slave and female slave.”

⁶ tn Heb “and I will empty sword” (see HALOT 1228 s.v. ריק 3).