Leviticus 18:25
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25 Because the entire land has become defiled, I am punishing the people who live there. I will cause the land to vomit them out.
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Leviticus 18:28
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28 So do not defile the land and give it a reason to vomit you out, as it will vomit out the people who live there now.
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Jeremiah 2:7
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7 “And when I brought you into a fruitful land
to enjoy its bounty and goodness,
you defiled my land and
corrupted the possession I had promised you.
Jeremiah 9:9
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9 Should I not punish them for this?” says the Lord.
“Should I not avenge myself against such a nation?”
Psalm 106:38
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38 They shed innocent blood,
the blood of their sons and daughters.
By sacrificing them to the idols of Canaan,
they polluted the land with murder.
Leviticus 20:22-23
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22 “You must keep all my decrees and regulations by putting them into practice; otherwise the land to which I am bringing you as your new home will vomit you out. 23 Do not live according to the customs of the people I am driving out before you. It is because they do these shameful things that I detest them.
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Numbers 35:33-34
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33 This will ensure that the land where you live will not be polluted, for murder pollutes the land. And no sacrifice except the execution of the murderer can purify the land from murder.[a] 34 You must not defile the land where you live, for I live there myself. I am the Lord, who lives among the people of Israel.”
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- 35:33 Or can make atonement for murder.
Hosea 2:13
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13 I will punish her for all those times
when she burned incense to her images of Baal,
when she put on her earrings and jewels
and went out to look for her lovers
but forgot all about me,”
says the Lord.
Ezekiel 36:17-18
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17 “Son of man, when the people of Israel were living in their own land, they defiled it by the evil way they lived. To me their conduct was as unclean as a woman’s menstrual cloth. 18 They polluted the land with murder and the worship of idols,[a] so I poured out my fury on them.
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