¹² For all who do such things are disgusting to the Lord; and because of these disgusting things the Lord your God is driving them out before you.

²⁴ Do not make yourself unclean in any of these ways; for so have those nations whom I am driving out from before you made themselves unclean:

⁴ And after the Lord has sent them in flight from before you, say not in your heart, Because of my righteousness the Lord has given me this land; when it is because of their evil-doing that the Lord is driving these nations out before you.

²⁷ (For all these disgusting things were done by the men of this country who were there before you, and the land has been made unclean by them;)