25 And the land is defiled: therefore I do visit the iniquity thereof upon it, and the land itself vomiteth out her inhabitants.
25 Even the land was defiled; so I punished it for its sin, and the land vomited out its inhabitants.
25 and the land became unclean, so that I punished its iniquity, and the land vomited out its inhabitants.
25 Even the land itself became polluted and I punished it for its iniquities - the land vomited up its inhabitants.
25 For the land is defiled; therefore I visit the punishment of its iniquity upon it, and the land vomits out its inhabitants.
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.
Matthew Henry's Commentary on Leviticus 18:25
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Unlawful marriages and fleshly lusts.
Here is a law against all conformity to the corrupt usages of the heathen. Also laws against incest, against brutal lusts, and barbarous idolatries; and the enforcement of these laws from the ruin of the Canaanites. God here gives moral precepts. Close and constant adherence to God's ordinances is the most effectual preservative from gross sin. The grace of God only will secure us; that grace is to be expected only in the use of the means of grace. Nor does He ever leave any to their hearts' lusts, till they have left him and his services.