Leviticus 18:24-28
24 a“Do not make yourselves unclean by any of these things, bfor by all these the nations I am driving out before you have become unclean, 25and the cland became unclean, so that I punished its iniquity, and the land dvomited out its inhabitants. 26But eyou shall keep my statutes and my rules and do none of these abominations, either the fnative or the stranger who sojourns among you 27(for the people of the land, who were before you, did all of these abominations, so that the land became unclean), 28lest the land vomit you out when you make it unclean, as it vomited out the nation that was before you.Leviticus 20:22-26
You Shall Be Holy
22 g“You shall therefore keep all my statutes and all my rules and do them, that the land where I am bringing you to live may not hvomit you out. 23 iAnd you shall not walk in the customs of the nation that I am driving out before you, for they did all these things, and therefore I detested them. 24But jI have said to you, ‘You shall inherit their land, and I will give it to you to possess, a land kflowing with milk and honey.’ I am the Lord your God, lwho has separated you from the peoples. 25 mYou shall therefore separate the clean beast from the unclean, and the unclean bird from the clean. You shall not make yourselves detestable by beast or by bird or by anything with which the ground crawls, which I have set apart for you to hold unclean. 26 nYou shall be holy to me, ofor I the Lord am holy and have separated you from the peoples, that you should be mine.Psalms 106:38
38they poured out innocent blood,the blood of their sons and daughters,
whom they sacrificed to the idols of Canaan,
and the land was ppolluted with blood.
Jeremiah 3:2
2Lift up your eyes to qthe bare heights, and see!Where have you not been ravished?
rBy the waysides you have sat awaiting lovers
like an Arab in the wilderness.
sYou have polluted the land
with your vile whoredom.
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