²⁸ otherwise the land will vomit you out for defiling it, as it vomited out the nation that was before you.

²³ You shall not follow the practices of the nation that I am driving out before you. Because they did all these things, I abhorred them.^(A)

⁵ It is not because of your righteousness or the uprightness of your heart that you are going in to occupy their land, but because of the wickedness of these nations the Lord your God is dispossessing them before you, in order to fulfill the promise that the Lord made on oath to your ancestors, to Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob.^(A)

¹² For whoever does these things is abhorrent to the Lord; it is because of such abhorrent practices that the Lord your God is driving them out before you.^(A)