Leviticus 18:28

Leviticus 18:28

That the land spue not you out also, when ye defile it, as it spued out the nations that were before you.

a. NLT: 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.

b. NIV: And if you defile the land, it will vomit you out as it vomited out the nations that were before you.

c. Amplified Bible: [Do none of these things] lest the land spew you out when you defile it as it spewed out the nation that was before you.

d. Septuagint:  And lest the land be aggrieved with you in your polluting it, as it was aggrieved with the nations before you.

e. Stone Edition Torah/Writings/Prophets: Let not the land disgorge you far having contaminated it, as it disgorged the nation that was before you.

1. “That the land spue not you out also, when ye defile it…”

a. land [776 * ‘erets][Strong: from an unused root probably meaning to be firm; the earth (at large, or partitively a land):--X common, country, earth, field, ground, land, X natins, way, + wilderness, world.]

b. spue [6958 * qow’][Strong: a primitive root; to vomit:--spue (out), vomit (out, up, up again).]

c. defile [2930 * tame’][Strong: a primitive root; to be foul, especially in a ceremial or moral sense (contaminated):--defile (self), pollute (self), be (make, make self, pronounce) unclean, X utterly.][Gesenius: To be or become unclean, to be polluted]

2. “…as it spued out the nations that were before you.”

a. spued [6958 * qow’][Strong: a primitive root; to vomit:--spue (out), vomit (out, up, up again).]

b. nations [1471 * gowy][Strong:  a foreign nation; hence, a Gentile; also (figuratively) a troop of animals, or a flight of locusts:--Gentile, heathen, nation, people.]

c. that were before you [6440 * paniym][Strong: plural (but always as singular) of an unused noun (paneh {paw-neh'}; from 6437); the face (as the part that turns); used in a great variety of applications (literally and figuratively); also (with prepositional prefix) as a preposition (before, etc.):--+ accept, a-(be- )fore(-time), against, anger, X as (long as), at, + battle, + because (of), + beseech, countenance, edge, + employ, endure, + enquire, face, favour, fear of, for, forefront(-part), form(-er time, -ward), from, front, heaviness, X him(-self), + honourable, + impudent, + in, it, look(-eth) (- s), X me, + meet, X more than, mouth, of, off, (of) old (time), X on, open, + out of, over against, the partial, person, + please, presence, propect, was purposed, by reason of, + regard, right forth, + serve, X shewbread, sight, state, straight, + street, X thee, X them(-selves), through (+ - out), till, time(-s) past, (un-)to(-ward), + upon, upside (+ down), with(- in, + -stand), X ye, X you.]]