²⁴ Defile not ye yourselves in any of these things: for in all these the nations are defiled which I cast out before you:

²⁴ Do not make yourself unclean in any of these ways; for so have those nations whom I am driving out from before you made themselves unclean:

²⁴ "Don't pollute yourself in any of these ways. This is how the nations became polluted, the ones that I am going to drive out of the land before you.