28 And if you defile the land, it will vomit you out as it vomited out the nations that were before you.
28 That the land spue not you out also, when ye defile it, as it spued out the nations that were before you.
28 lest the land vomit you out when you make it unclean, as it vomited out the nation that was before you.
28 And if you pollute it, the land will vomit you up just as it vomited up the nations that preceded you.
28 lest the land vomit you out also when you defile it, as it vomited out the nations that were before you.
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.
Matthew Henry's Commentary on Leviticus 18:28
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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.