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27 for the people who were in the land before you have done all these abominations,[a] and the land has become unclean. 28 So do not make the land vomit you out because you defile it[b] just as it has vomited out the nations[c] that were before you. 29 For if anyone does any of these abominations, that person who does them will be cut off from the midst of the people.[d]

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Footnotes

  1. Leviticus 18:27 tn Heb “for all these abominations the men of the land who were before you have done.”
  2. Leviticus 18:28 tn Heb “And the land will not vomit you out in your defiling it.”
  3. Leviticus 18:28 tc The MT reads the singular “nation” and is followed by ASV, NASB, NRSV; the LXX, Syriac, and Targum have the plural “nations” (cf. v. 24).
  4. Leviticus 18:29 sn Regarding the “cut off” penalty see the note on Lev 7:20.