Leviticus 20:22
Translations
King James Version (KJV)
You shall therefore keep all my statutes, and all my judgments, and do them: that the land, where I bring you to dwell therein, spew you not out.
American King James Version (AKJV)
You shall therefore keep all my statutes, and all my judgments, and do them: that the land, where I bring you to dwell therein, spew you not out.
American Standard Version (ASV)
Ye shall therefore keep all my statutes, and all mine ordinances, and do them; that the land, whither I bring you to dwell therein, vomit you not out.
Basic English Translation (BBE)
So then, keep my rules and my decisions and do them, so that the land which I am giving you as your resting-place may not violently send you out again.
Webster's Revision
Ye shall therefore keep all my statutes, and all my judgments, and do them: that the land whither I bring you to dwell therein, may not vomit you out.
World English Bible
"'You shall therefore keep all my statutes, and all my ordinances, and do them; that the land, where I am bringing you to dwell, may not vomit you out.
English Revised Version (ERV)
Ye shall therefore keep all my statutes, and all my judgments, and do them: that the land, whither I bring you to dwell therein, vomit you not out.
Definitions for Leviticus 20:22
Clarke's Leviticus 20:22 Bible Commentary
The land, whither I bring you to dwell therein, spue you not out - See this energetic prosopopoeia explained in the note on Leviticus 18:25 (note). From this we learn that the cup of the iniquities of the Canaanitish nations was full; and that, consistently with Divine justice, they could be no longer spared.
Barnes's Leviticus 20:22 Bible Commentary
The ground is here again stated on which all these laws of holiness should be obeyed. See Leviticus 18:24-30 note.
