²⁴ “Do not defile yourselves by any of these practices, for the nations I am driving out before you have defiled themselves by all these things.

¹⁸ “Then I said to their children in the wilderness: Don’t follow the statutes of your fathers, defile yourselves with their idols, or keep their ordinances.^(A)

³⁰ “Therefore say to the house of Israel: This is what the Lord God says: Are you defiling yourselves the way your fathers did,^(A) and prostituting yourselves with their detestable things? ³¹ When you offer your gifts, making your children pass through the fire,^(B) you continue to defile yourselves with all your idols to this day. So should I be consulted by you, house of Israel? As I live”—this is the declaration of the Lord God—“I will not be consulted by you!