²⁴ ‘Do not defile yourselves by any of these things; for by all these ^(A)the nations which I am casting out before you have become defiled. ²⁵ For the land has become defiled, ^(B)therefore I have brought its ^[a]punishment upon it, so the land ^(C)has spewed out its inhabitants. ²⁶ But as for you, you are to keep My statutes and My judgments and shall not do any of these abominations, neither the native, nor the alien who sojourns among you