Leviticus 18:28

New International Reader's Version

If you make the land “unclean,” it will throw you out. It will get rid of you just as it got rid of the nations there before you.

Cross References

Jeremiah 9:19

People are heard weeping in Zion. They are saying, “We are destroyed! We are filled with shame! We must leave our land. Our houses have been torn down.”

Ezekiel 36:13

The Lord and King says, “People say to you mountains, ‘You destroy people. You let your nation’s children be taken away.’

Ezekiel 36:17

“Son of man, the people of Israel used to live in their own land. But they made it ‘unclean’ because of how they acted and the way they lived. To me they were ‘unclean’ like a woman having her monthly period.

Leviticus 18:25

Even their land was not “clean.” So I punished it because of its sin. The land itself threw out the people who lived there.

Leviticus 18:27

All these things were done by the people who lived in the land before you. That is how the land became “unclean.”

Leviticus 18:29

“ ‘Suppose you do any of the things I hate. Then you must be separated from your people.

Leviticus 20:22

“ ‘Obey all my rules and laws. Follow them. Then the land where I am bringing you to live will not throw you out.

Romans 8:22

We know that all that God created has been groaning. It is in pain as if it were giving birth to a child. The created world continues to groan even now.

Revelation 3:16

But you are lukewarm. You aren’t hot or cold. So I am going to spit you out of my mouth.