Key Verse Spotlight
Leviticus 18:26 — Meaning and Application
King James Version
“Ye shall therefore keep my statutes and my judgments, and shall not commit {any} of these abominations; {neither} any of your own nation, nor any stranger that sojourneth among you:”
Leviticus 18:26
Verse in Context
Understanding the surrounding verses prevents misinterpretation:
Defile not ye yourselves in any of these things: for in all these the nations are defiled which I cast out before you:
And the land is defiled: therefore I do visit the iniquity thereof upon it, and the land itself vomiteth out her inhabitants.
Ye shall therefore keep my statutes and my judgments, and shall not commit {any} of these abominations; {neither} any of your own nation, nor any stranger that sojourneth among you:
(For all these abominations have the men of the land done, which {were} before you, and the land is defiled;)
That the land spue not you out also, when ye defile it, as it spued out the nations that {were} before you.
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