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Leviticus 18:24-30
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Leviticus 18:24-30
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24 “‘Do not defile yourselves in any of these ways, because this is how the nations that I am going to drive out before you(A) became defiled.(B) 25 Even the land was defiled;(C) so I punished it for its sin,(D) and the land vomited out its inhabitants.(E) 26 But you must keep my decrees and my laws.(F) The native-born and the foreigners residing among you must not do any of these detestable things, 27 for all these things were done by the people who lived in the land before you, and the land became defiled. 28 And if you defile the land,(G) it will vomit you out(H) as it vomited out the nations that were before you.
29 “‘Everyone who does any of these detestable things—such persons must be cut off from their people. 30 Keep my requirements(I) and do not follow any of the detestable customs that were practiced before you came and do not defile yourselves with them. I am the Lord your God.(J)’”
Leviticus 18:24-30
New English Translation
Leviticus 18:24-30
New English Translation
Warning against the Abominations of the Nations
24 “‘Do not defile yourselves with any of these things, for the nations that I am about to drive out before you[a] have been defiled with all these things. 25 Therefore[b] the land has become unclean and I have brought the punishment for its iniquity upon it,[c] so that the land has vomited out its inhabitants. 26 You yourselves must obey[d] my statutes and my regulations and must not do any of these abominations, both the native citizen and the resident foreigner[e] in your midst, 27 for the people who were in the land before you have done all these abominations,[f] and the land has become unclean. 28 So do not make the land vomit you out because you defile it[g] just as it has vomited out the nations[h] that were before you. 29 For if anyone does any of these abominations, that person who does them will be cut off from the midst of the people.[i] 30 You must obey my charge not to practice any of the abominable statutes[j] that have been done before you, so that you do not[k] defile yourselves by them. I am the Lord your God.’”
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- Leviticus 18:24 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.
- Leviticus 18:25 tn Heb “And.” The Hebrew conjunction ו (vav, “and”) can be considered to have resultative or even inferential force here.
- Leviticus 18:25 tn Heb “and I have visited its [punishment for] iniquity on it.” See the note on Lev 17:16 above.
- Leviticus 18:26 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.
- Leviticus 18:26 sn On the Hebrew ger (גֵּר) “resident foreigner” see notes at Exod 12:19 and Deut 29:11.
- Leviticus 18:27 tn Heb “for all these abominations the men of the land who were before you have done.”
- Leviticus 18:28 tn Heb “And the land will not vomit you out in your defiling it.”
- Leviticus 18:28 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).
- Leviticus 18:29 sn Regarding the “cut off” penalty see the note on Lev 7:20.
- Leviticus 18:30 tn Heb “to not do from the statutes of the detestable acts.”
- Leviticus 18:30 tn Heb “and you will not.” The Hebrew conjunction ו (vav, “and”) can be considered to have resultative force here.
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