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and the land became defiled, so that I punished its iniquity, and the land vomited out its inhabitants.

(for all of these abominations the men of the land did, who were before you, so that the land became defiled);

So keep my charge never to practice any of these abominable customs which were practiced before you, and never to defile yourselves by them: I am the LORD your God."

"When you offer a sacrifice of peace offerings to the LORD, you shall offer it so that you may be accepted.

And you shall not swear by my name falsely, and so profane the name of your God: I am the LORD.

He shall not defile himself as a husband among his people and so profane himself.

So Moses spoke to Aaron and to his sons and to all the people of Israel.

"Tell Aaron and his sons to keep away from the holy things of the people of Israel, which they dedicate to me, so that they may not profane my holy name; I am the LORD.

and so cause them to bear iniquity and guilt, by eating their holy things: for I am the LORD who sanctify them."

And when you sacrifice a sacrifice of thanksgiving to the LORD, you shall sacrifice it so that you may be accepted.

"So you shall keep my commandments and do them: I am the LORD.

So Moses spoke to the people of Israel; and they brought him who had cursed out of the camp, and stoned him with stones. Thus the people of Israel did as the LORD commanded Moses.

"And you shall count seven weeks of years, seven times seven years, so that the time of the seven weeks of years shall be to you forty-nine years.

"Therefore you shall do my statutes, and keep my ordinances and perform them; so you will dwell in the land securely.

I will command my blessing upon you in the sixth year, so that it will bring forth fruit for three years.

if you spurn my statutes, and if your soul abhors my ordinances, so that you will not do all my commandments, but break my covenant,

And I will let loose the wild beasts among you, which shall rob you of your children, and destroy your cattle, and make you few in number, so that your ways shall become desolate.

And I will devastate the land, so that your enemies who settle in it shall be astonished at it.

so that I walked contrary to them and brought them into the land of their enemies; if then their uncircumcised heart is humbled and they make amends for their iniquity;

Yet for all that, when they are in the land of their enemies, I will not spurn them, neither will I abhor them so as to destroy them utterly and break my covenant with them; for I am the LORD their God;