²⁶ But you must keep my decrees and my laws.^(A) The native-born and the foreigners residing among you must not do any of these detestable things,

²⁷ for all these things were done by the people who lived in the land before you, and the land became defiled.

²⁹ “‘Everyone who does any of these detestable things—such persons must be cut off from their people.