Then the Lord said, “In this way the sons of Israel will eat their bread unclean among the nations where I will scatter them.”

But I said, “Oh, Lord God! Behold, I have never been defiled; for from my youth until now I have never eaten what died of itself or was torn by animals, nor has any unclean meat ever entered my mouth!”

and I pronounced them unclean because of their gifts, in that they made all their firstborn pass through the fire so that I might make them desolate, in order that they might know that I am the Lord.”’

Among you they have uncovered their fathers’ nakedness; among you they have abused her who was unclean in her menstruation.

And I will scatter you among the nations and disperse you among the lands, and I will eliminate your uncleanness from you.

Her priests have done violence to My Law and have profaned My holy things; they have made no distinction between the holy and the common, and they have not taught the difference between the unclean and the clean; and they have closed their eyes from My Sabbaths, and I am defiled among them.

“Son of man, when the house of Israel was living on their own land, they defiled it by their ways and their deeds; their way before Me was like the uncleanness of a woman in her impurity.

Moreover, I will save you from all your uncleanness; and I will call for the grain and multiply it, and I will not bring a famine on you.

In accordance with their uncleanness and their offenses I dealt with them, and I hid My face from them.”’”

Moreover, they shall teach My people the difference between the holy and the common, and teach them to distinguish between the unclean and the clean.