Moral Purity

Leviticus 18:24 “Do not make yourselves unclean by any of these things, for by all these the nations I am driving out before you have become unclean, 25 and the land became unclean, so that I punished its iniquity, and the land vomited out its inhabitants. 26 But you shall keep my statutes and my rules and do none of these abominations, either the native or the stranger who sojourns among you 27 (for the people of the land, who were before you, did all of these abominations, so that the land became unclean), 28 lest the land vomit you out when you make it unclean, as it vomited out the nation that was before you.

Just as certain animals were deemed clean or unclean according to their use in pagan worship, there were sexual practices which had been a part of the pagan peoples who had inhabited the promised land prior to the entrance of Israel. This chapter talks about adultery, incest, bestiality, homosexuality, and other sexual perversions which were (and are) not to be practiced.  As usual, God has a picturesque way of telling what will happen when these practices are welcomed: they would be "vomited out" of the land. May we heed this warning in our own culture.