¹² For all who do these things are ^[a]an abomination to the Lord, and ^(A)because of these abominations the Lord your God drives them out from before you.

^24 (A)‘Do not defile yourselves with any of these things; ^(B)for by all these the nations are defiled, which I am casting out before you.

^4 (A)“Do not think in your heart, after the Lord your God has cast them out before you, saying, ‘Because of my righteousness the Lord has brought me in to possess this land’; but it is ^(B)because of the wickedness of these nations that the Lord is driving them out from before you.

²⁷ (for all these abominations the men of the land have done, who were before you, and thus the land is defiled),