^{25 Ref} The land was defiled: therefore I punished its iniquity, and the land vomitted out her inhabitants.

^{26 Ref} You therefore shall keep my statutes and my ordinances, and shall not do any of these abominations; neither the native-born, nor the stranger who lives as a foreigner among you;

^{27 Ref} (for all these abominations have the men of the land done, that were before you, and the land became defiled);

^{28 Ref} that the land not vomit you out also, when you defile it, as it vomited out the nation that was before you.