 | Joshua Efrón - History - 1987 - 468 pages
...and the land spewed out its inhabitants... and you must not do any of those abhorrent things... So let not the land spew you out for defiling it, as...spewed out the nation that came before you" (Lev. 18:24, 25, 26, 28). That rebuke is directed against the entire Jewish people. The land spewed them... | |
 | Elliot N. Dorff, Arthur I. Rosett, Jewish Theological Seminary of America - Religion - 1988 - 622 pages
...abhorrent things were done by the people who were in the land before you and the land became defiled. So let not the land spew you out for defiling it, as it spewed out the nation that came before you. All who do any of those abhorrent things — such persons shall be cut off from their people. You shall... | |
 | John Hick, Edmund S. Meltzer - Religion - 1989 - 260 pages
...that is the Sanhedrin. Why is it called 'navel'? Because it is at the navel point of the world. 60 So let not the land spew you out for defiling it, as it spewed out the nation that came before you (Leviticus 18:28). If, then, you agree and give heed, you will eat the good things of the earth; But... | |
 | Jonathan Magonet - Religion - 1995 - 288 pages
...indulged in the incestuous relations listed there, in bestiality and homosexuality and molechr-woTship, and that as a result the land became defiled and vomited...as it spewed out the nation that came before you' (Leviticus 18:28). Israel's right of occupation is contingent upon its care not to pollute the land... | |
 | Reuven Hammer - Religion - 1995 - 544 pages
...Therefor he spewed it out. So too the Land of Israel does not suffer transgressors. Thus it says SO LEI NOT THE LAND SPEW YOU OUT FOR DEFILING IT, AS IT SPEWED OUT THE NATION THAT CAME BEFORE YOU (Lev. I8:28).... LEST THE LAND TO WHICH I BRING YOU TO SETTLE IN SPEW YOU OUT (Lev. 20:22). I bring you there... | |
 | Elia Benamozegh - Religion - 1995 - 478 pages
...guilty conduct of the peoples whom they had vanquished and whom the earth had spewed out before them: So let not the land spew you out for defiling it, as it spewed out the nation that came before you. (Lv 18:28) It is, then, through obedience to the laws of the Sovereign Master that man will exercise... | |
 | Alice Bach - Religion - 1999 - 570 pages
...indulged in the incestuous relations listed there, in bestiality and homosexuality and molech- worship, and that as a result the land became defiled and vomited...people must not only refrain from murder, they must not pollute the land by letting murderers go free or allowing accidental murderers to leave the city... | |
 | Yiśakhar Shelomoh Ṭaikhṭel - History - 1999 - 476 pages
...185-189. 211 LamR. 3:18. After all, the Land cannot tolerate those who defile her, as it is written: "So let not the Land spew you out for defiling it [as it spewed out the nation that came before it.]" 213 . . . However, there is no difficulty at all. Obviously, the higher and lower courts functioned... | |
 | Jonathan Klawans - Bibles - 2004 - 262 pages
...on which he lies shall become impure. (Lev. 15.i9-24)1 fore you, and the land became defiled (28) So let not the land spew you out for defiling it, as it spewed out the nation that came before you. (29) All who do any of those abhorrent things —such persons shall be cut off from their people. (30)... | |
 | Christine E. Hayes - Religion - 2002 - 324 pages
...things were done by the people who were in the land before you and the land became defiled. 28. So let not the land spew you out for defiling it, as it spewed out the nations that came before you. 29. All who do any of those abhorrent things— such persons shall be... | |
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... all those abhorrent things were done by the people who were in the land before you, and the land became defiled. 28] So let not the land spew you out for defiling it, as it spewed out the nation that came before you. 
