‘Do not defile yourselves by any of these things; for by all these things the nations which I am driving out from you have become defiled.

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.

Furthermore, you shall not follow the customs of the nation which I am going to drive out before you, because they did all these things; therefore I have felt disgust for them.

As for your male and female slaves whom you may have—you may acquire male and female slaves from the pagan nations that are around you.

You, however, I will scatter among the nations, and I will draw out a sword after you, as your land becomes desolate and your cities become ruins.

Instead, you will perish among the nations, and your enemies’ land will consume you.

But I will remember for them the covenant with their ancestors, whom I brought out of the land of Egypt in the sight of the nations, so that I might be their God. I am the Lord.’”