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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