‘Do not defile yourselves with any of these things; for by all these the nations are defiled, which I am casting out before you.

You shall therefore keep My statutes and My judgments, and shall not commit any of these abominations, either any of your own nation or any stranger who dwells among you

lest the land vomit you out also when you defile it, as it vomited out the nations that were before you.

And you shall not walk in the statutes of the nation which I am casting out before you; for they commit all these things, and therefore I abhor them.

And as for your male and female slaves whom you may have—from the nations that are around you, from them you may buy male and female slaves.

I will scatter you among the nations and draw out a sword after you; your land shall be desolate and your cities waste.

You shall perish among the nations, and the land of your enemies shall eat you up.

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