¹⁶ Then in ^(A)the fourth generation they will return here, for ^(B)the wrongdoing of the Amorite is not yet complete.”

²⁵ For the land has become defiled, ^(A)therefore I have brought its punishment upon it, so the land ^(B)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 ^(C)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; ^(D)I am the Lord your God.’”

¹¹ “^(A)Since Manasseh king of Judah has committed these abominations, ^(B)having done more evil than all that the Amorites did who were before him, and ^(C)has also misled Judah into sin ^(D)with his idols,