After the doings of the land of Egypt, in which you dwelt, shall you not do: and after the doings of the land of Canaan, to which I bring you, shall you not do: neither shall you walk in their ordinances.
Therefore shall you keep my ordinance, so that you do not commit any one of these abominable customs, which were committed before you, and so that you do not defile yourselves therein: I am the LORD your God.
Not for your righteousness, or for the uprightness of your heart, do you go to possess their land: but for the wickedness of these nations the LORD your God drives them out from before you, and that he may perform the word which the LORD swore unto your fathers, Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob.