Discovery BoxLeviticus 18:27-28
Context18:27 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.
Leviticus 26:8
Context26:8 Five of you will pursue a hundred, and a hundred of you will pursue ten thousand, and your enemies will fall before you by the sword.
[18:27] 1 tn Heb “for all these abominations the men of the land who were before you have done.”
[18:28] 2 tn Heb “And the land will not vomit you out in your defiling it.”
[18:28] 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).
