18:24 “‘Do not defile yourselves with any of these things, for the nations which I am about to drive out before you 6 have been defiled with all these things. 18:25 Therefore 7 the land has become unclean and I have brought the punishment for its iniquity upon it, 8 so that the land has vomited out its inhabitants. 18:26 You yourselves must obey 9 my statutes and my regulations and must not do any of these abominations, both the native citizen and the resident foreigner in your midst, 10 18:27 for the people who were in the land before you have done all these abominations, 11 and the land has become unclean. 18:28 So do not make the land vomit you out because you defile it 12 just as it has vomited out the nations 13 that were before you. 18:29 For if anyone does any of these abominations, the persons who do them will be cut off from the midst of their people. 14 18:30 You must obey my charge to not practice any of the abominable statutes 15 that have been done before you, so that you do not 16 defile yourselves by them. I am the Lord your God.’”