Discovery BoxLeviticus 18:25 
Context18:25 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.
Leviticus 18:28
Context18:28 So do not make the land vomit you out because you defile it 3 just as it has vomited out the nations 4 that were before you.
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 the land will not vomit you out in your defiling it.”
4 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).
