18:24 “‘Do not defile yourselves with any of these things, for the nations which I am about to drive out before you 1 have been defiled with all these things. 18:25 Therefore 2 the land has become unclean and I have brought the punishment for its iniquity upon it, 3 so that the land has vomited out its inhabitants. 18:26 You yourselves must obey 4 my statutes and my regulations and must not do any of these abominations, both the native citizen and the resident foreigner in your midst, 5 18:27 for the people who were in the land before you have done all these abominations, 6 and the land has become unclean. 18:28 So do not make the land vomit you out because you defile it 7 just as it has vomited out the nations 8 that were before you.