Numbers 35:33-34

New International Version

³³“‘Do not pollute the land where you are. Bloodshed pollutes the land,^(A) and atonement cannot be made for the land on which blood has been shed, except by the blood of the one who shed it. ³⁴Do not defile the land^(B) where you live and where I dwell,^(C) for I, the Lord, dwell among the Israelites.’”

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Deuteronomy 9:4

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⁴After the Lord your God has driven them out before you, do not say to yourself,^(A) “The Lord has brought me here to take possession of this land because of my righteousness.” No, it is on account of the wickedness^(B) of these nations^(C) that the Lord is going to drive them out before you.

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Deuteronomy 9:4 in all English translations

Ezra 9:11

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¹¹you gave through your servants the prophets when you said: ‘The land you are entering^(A) to possess is a land polluted^(B) by the corruption of its peoples. By their detestable practices^(C) they have filled it with their impurity from one end to the other.

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Ezra 9:11 in all English translations

Isaiah 24:5-6

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⁵The earth is defiled^(A) by its people;
    they have disobeyed^(B) the laws,
violated the statutes
    and broken the everlasting covenant.^(C)
⁶Therefore a curse^(D) consumes the earth;
    its people must bear their guilt.
Therefore earth’s inhabitants are burned up,^(E)
    and very few are left.