The land vomits! What? Well, that’s what it says… “Even the land was defiled; so I punished it for its sin, and the land vomit ed out its inhabitants.” Lev 18:25 And if you defile the land, it will vomit you out as it vomit ed out the nations that were before you. Lev 18:28 Keep all my decrees and laws and follow them, so that the land where I am bringing you to live may not vomit you out. Lev. 20:22 Does the land literally vomit? Does it figuratively do so? And what does it mean? From what I can gather, it could be similar to when a person grows nauseous from the contents of his stomach and wants to vomit the contents out. Strange as it sounds, the land grows nauseous of its inhabitants and wants to vomit them out. Some would say that an example of the land vomiting out its inhabitants was when fire and brimstone rained down upon Sodom (Gen 19:24). Had the land become nauseous? Based on this description, it could very well be: “Now the people of Sodom were