24. “Do not defile yourselves in any of these things, for in all of these ways the nations which I am casting out before you were defiled.
25. The land has become defiled, so I will punish its iniquity, and the land will vomit out its inhabitants.
26. You, however, are to keep My statutes and My ordinances, and do none of these abominations, neither the native-born, nor the outsider dwelling among you.
27. “For all these abominations were done by the men of the land who were before you, and the land became defiled.
28. If you defile it, the land will vomit you out as it vomited out the nation that was before you.
29. For whoever does any of these detestable things, the souls that do them are to be cut off from the midst of their people.