Leviticus 18:27-30

18:27 for the people who were in the land before you have done all these abominations, ¹  and the land has become unclean. 18:28 So do not make the land vomit you out because you defile it ²  just as it has vomited out the nations ³  that were before you. 18:29 For if anyone does any of these abominations, the persons who do them will be cut off from the midst of their people. ⁴  18:30 You must obey my charge to not practice any of the abominable statutes ⁵  that have been done before you, so that you do not ⁶  defile yourselves by them. I am the Lord your God.’”

¹ tn Heb “for all these abominations the men of the land who were before you have done.”

² tn Heb “And the land will not vomit you out in your defiling it.”

³ 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).

³ sn Regarding the “cut off” penalty see the note on Lev 7:20.

⁴ tn Heb “to not do from the statutes of the detestable acts.”

⁵ tn Heb “and you will not.” The Hebrew conjunction ו (vav, “and”) can be considered to have resultative force here.