Lev 18:24-28, Num 35:33-34, Psa 106:37-38, Isa 24:5, Jer 2:7, 3:1-2, 9 | ESV | STEP | Do not make yourselves unclean by any of these things , for by all these the nations I am driving out before you have become unclean ,

y[See ver. 1 above]

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, 25 and the ^cland became unclean, so that I punished its iniquity, and the land ^dvomited out its inhabitants. 26 But ^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), 28 lest the land vomit you out when you make it unclean, as it vomited out the nation that was before you.

Numbers 35:33-34

33 You shall not ^gpollute the land in which you live, for blood ^hpollutes the land, and no atonement can be made for the land for the blood that is shed in it, except ⁱby the blood of the one who shed it. 34 ^jYou shall not defile the land in which you live, in the midst of which I dwell, ^kfor I the Lord dwell in the midst of the people of Israel.”

Psalms 106:37-38

37 They ^lsacrificed their sons
and their daughters to ^mthe demons;
38 they poured out innocent blood,
the blood of their sons and daughters,
whom they sacrificed to the idols of Canaan,
and the land was ⁿpolluted with blood.

Isaiah 24:5

5 The earth lies ^odefiled
under its inhabitants;
for ^pthey have transgressed the laws,
violated the statutes,
broken the everlasting covenant.

Jeremiah 2:7

7 ^qAnd I brought you into a plentiful land
to enjoy its fruits and its good things.
But when you came in, ^ryou defiled my land
and made my heritage an abomination.

Jeremiah 3:1-2

1 ^s“If ^{▼▼Septuagint, Syriac; Hebrew Saying, “If} a man divorces his wife
and she goes from him
and becomes another man’s wife,
will he return to her?
^uWould not that land be greatly polluted?
^vYou have played the whore with many lovers;
and would you return to me?

declares the Lord.
2 Lift up your eyes to ^wthe bare heights, and see!
Where have you not been ravished?
^xBy the waysides you have sat awaiting lovers
like an Arab in the wilderness.
^yYou have polluted the land
with your vile whoredom.

Jeremiah 3:9

9 Because she took her whoredom lightly, she polluted the land, committing adultery with ^zstone and tree.