²⁴ You must not make yourselves unclean in any of these ways, for in all these ways the nations that I am casting out before you have made themselves unclean. ²⁵ In this way the land became unclean, so I have come to deal with its guilt, and the land will vomit out its inhabitants.

²⁶ But you yourselves must keep my regulations and ordinances. You must not practice any of these abominations. This applies both to the native and to the alien who resides among you. ²⁷ Because the people of the land who were there before you practiced all these abominations, the land became unclean. ²⁸ So do not let the land vomit you out for making it unclean, as it vomited out the nation that was there before you. ²⁹ If anyone does any of these abominations, the lives of those who practice them will be cut off from the midst of their people. ³⁰ Keep my instructions. Do not perform any of the abominable^[a] practices which were done before you arrived, so that you do not defile yourselves by them. I am the Lord your God.