17 (A)“Son of man, when the house of Israel lived in their own land, (B)they defiled it by their ways and their deeds. Their ways before me were (C)like the uncleanness of a woman in her menstrual impurity.

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(A)And I brought you into a plentiful land
    to enjoy its fruits and its good things.
But when you came in, (B)you defiled my land
    and made my heritage an abomination.

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10 (A)Arise and go,
    for this is no (B)place to rest,
because of (C)uncleanness that destroys
    with a grievous destruction.

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33 You shall not (A)pollute the land in which you live, for blood (B)pollutes the land, and no atonement can be made for the land for the blood that is shed in it, except (C)by the blood of the one who shed it. 34 (D)You shall not defile the land in which you live, in the midst of which I dwell, (E)for I the Lord dwell in the midst of the people of Israel.”

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18 But first (A)I will doubly repay their iniquity and their sin, because they have polluted my land with the carcasses of their detestable idols, and (B)have filled my inheritance with their abominations.”

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Because she took her whoredom lightly, she polluted the land, committing adultery with (A)stone and tree.

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(A)“If[a] a man divorces his wife
    and she goes from him
and becomes another man's wife,
    will he return to her?
(B)Would not that land be greatly polluted?
(C)You have played the whore with many lovers;
    and would you return to me?
declares the Lord.
Lift up your eyes to (D)the bare heights, and see!
    Where have you not been ravished?
(E)By the waysides you have sat awaiting lovers
    like an Arab in the wilderness.
(F)You have polluted the land
    with your vile whoredom.

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Footnotes

  1. Jeremiah 3:1 Septuagint, Syriac; Hebrew Saying, “If

(A)We have all become like one who is unclean,
    and all our righteous deeds are like a polluted garment.
(B)We all fade like a leaf,
    and our iniquities, like the wind, take us away.

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The earth lies (A)defiled
    under its inhabitants;
for (B)they have transgressed the laws,
    violated the statutes,
    broken the everlasting covenant.

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37 They (A)sacrificed their sons
    and their daughters to (B)the demons;
38 they poured out innocent blood,
    the blood of their sons and daughters,
whom they sacrificed to the idols of Canaan,
    and the land was (C)polluted with blood.

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24 (A)“Do not make yourselves unclean by any of these things, (B)for by all these the nations I am driving out before you have become unclean, 25 and the (C)land became unclean, so that I punished its iniquity, and the land (D)vomited out its inhabitants. 26 But (E)you shall keep my statutes and my rules and do none of these abominations, either the (F)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.

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19 “When a woman has a discharge, and the discharge in her body is blood, she shall be in her menstrual impurity for seven days, and whoever touches her shall be unclean until the evening. 20 (A)And everything on which she lies during her menstrual impurity shall be unclean. Everything also on which she sits shall be unclean. 21 And whoever touches her bed shall wash his clothes and bathe himself in water and be unclean until the evening. 22 And whoever touches anything on which she sits shall wash his clothes and bathe himself in water and be unclean until the evening. 23 Whether it is the bed or anything on which she sits, when he touches it he shall be unclean until the evening. 24 And (B)if any man lies with her and her menstrual impurity comes upon him, he shall be unclean seven days, and every bed on which he lies shall be unclean.

25 “If (C)a woman has a discharge of blood for many days, not at the time of her menstrual impurity, or if she has a discharge beyond the time of her impurity, all the days of the discharge she shall continue in uncleanness. As in the days of her impurity, she shall be unclean. 26 Every bed on which she lies, all the days of her discharge, shall be to her as the bed of her impurity. And everything on which she sits shall be unclean, as in the uncleanness of her menstrual impurity. 27 And whoever touches these things shall be unclean, and shall wash his clothes and bathe himself in water and be unclean until the evening. 28 But (D)if she is cleansed of her discharge, she shall count for herself seven days, and after that she shall be clean. 29 And on the eighth day she shall take two (E)turtledoves or two pigeons and bring them to the priest, to the entrance of the tent of meeting. 30 And the priest shall use one for a sin offering and the other for a burnt offering. And the priest shall make atonement for her before the Lord for her unclean discharge.

31 “Thus you shall keep the people of Israel separate from their uncleanness, lest they die in their uncleanness by (F)defiling my tabernacle that is in their midst.”

32 This is the law (G)for him who has a discharge and (H)for him who has an emission of semen, becoming unclean thereby; 33 (I)also for her who is unwell with her menstrual impurity, that is, for anyone, (J)male or (K)female, who has a discharge, and for the (L)man who lies with a woman who is unclean.

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