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. 25 The land has become defiled, so I am punishing it for its iniquity, and the land will vomit out its inhabitants.(A) 26 But you are to keep my statutes and ordinances. You must not commit any of these detestable acts—not the native or the alien who resides among you. 27 For the people who were in the land prior to you have committed all these detestable acts, and the land has become defiled. 28 If you defile the land, it will vomit(B) you out as it has vomited out the nations that were before you. 29 Any person who does any of these detestable practices is to be cut off from his people. 30 You must keep my instruction to not do any of the detestable customs(C) that were practiced before you, so that you do not defile yourselves by them; I am the Lord your God.”

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24 ‘Do not defile yourselves by any of these things; for by all these things (A)the nations which I am driving out from you have become defiled. 25 For the land has become defiled, (B)therefore I have brought its punishment upon it, so the land (C)has vomited out its inhabitants. 26 But as for you, you are to keep My statutes and My judgments, and you shall not do any of these abominations, neither the native, nor the stranger who resides among you 27 (for the people of the land who were there before you did all these abominations, and the land has become defiled), 28 so that the land will not vomit you out should you defile it, as it has vomited out the nation which was there before you. 29 For whoever does any of these abominations, those persons who do so shall be cut off from among their people. 30 So you are to keep (D)your [a]commitment to Me not to practice any of the abominable customs which have been practiced before you, so that you do not defile yourselves with them; (E)I am the Lord your God.’”

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Footnotes

  1. Leviticus 18:30 Lit obligation