Leviticus 18:25
Translations
King James Version (KJV)
And the land is defiled: therefore I do visit the iniquity thereof on it, and the land itself vomits out her inhabitants.
American King James Version (AKJV)
And the land is defiled: therefore I do visit the iniquity thereof on it, and the land itself vomits out her inhabitants.
American Standard Version (ASV)
And the land is defiled: therefore I do visit the iniquity thereof upon it, and the land vomiteth out her inhabitants.
Basic English Translation (BBE)
And the land itself has become unclean; so that I have sent on it the reward of its wrongdoing, and the land itself puts out those who are living in it.
Webster's Revision
And the land is defiled: therefore I do visit its iniquity upon it, and the land itself vomiteth out her inhabitants.
World English Bible
The land was defiled: therefore I punished its iniquity, and the land vomited out her inhabitants.
English Revised Version (ERV)
And the land is defiled: therefore I do visit the iniquity thereof upon it, and the land vomiteth out her inhabitants.
Definitions for Leviticus 18:25
Clarke's Leviticus 18:25 Bible Commentary
The land itself vomiteth out her inhabitants - This is a very nervous prosopopoeia or personification; a figure by which any part of inanimate nature may be represented as possessing the passions and reason of man. Here the land is represented as an intelligent being, with a deep and refined sense of moral good and evil: information concerning the abominations of the people is brought to this personified land, with which it is so deeply affected that a nausea is produced, and it vomits out its abominable and accursed inhabitants. It was natural for the inspired penman to make use of such a figure, as the description he was obliged to give of so many and enormous abominations must have affected him nearly in the same way in which he represents the land to be affected.
Wesley's Leviticus 18:25 Bible Commentary
18:25 I visit - I am about to visit, that is, to punish.
