Leviticus 18:25-28

18:25 Therefore ¹  the land has become unclean and I have brought the punishment for its iniquity upon it, ²  so that the land has vomited out its inhabitants. 18:26 You yourselves must obey ³  my statutes and my regulations and must not do any of these abominations, both the native citizen and the resident foreigner in your midst, ⁴  18:27 for the people who were in the land before you have done all these abominations, ⁵  and the land has become unclean. 18:28 So do not make the land vomit you out because you defile it ⁶  just as it has vomited out the nations ⁷  that were before you.

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¹ tn Heb “And.” The Hebrew conjunction ו (vav, “and”) can be considered to have resultative or even inferential force here.

² tn Heb “and I have visited its [punishment for] iniquity on it.” See the note on Lev 17:16 above.

³ tn Heb “And you shall keep, you.” The latter emphatic personal pronoun “you” is left out of a few medieval Hebrew mss, Smr, the LXX, Syriac, and Vulgate.

⁴ tn Heb “the native and the sojourner”; NIV “The native-born and the aliens”; NAB “whether natives or resident aliens.”

⁵ tn Heb “for all these abominations the men of the land who were before you have done.”

⁶ tn Heb “And the land will not vomit you out in your defiling it.”

⁷ 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).