24 “‘Do not make yourselves unclean by any of these things, because by all these things the nations whom I am sending out from before YOU have made themselves unclean.+

33 “‘And YOU must not pollute the land in which YOU are;* because it is blood that pollutes the land,+ and for the land there may be no atonement respecting the blood that has been spilled upon it except by the blood of the one spilling it.+

9 And Ma·nasʹseh+ kept seducing Judah+ and the inhabitants of Jerusalem to do worse+ than the nations that Jehovah had annihilated from before the sons of Israel.+

3 There is a saying: “If a man* should send away his wife* and she should actually go away from him and become another man’s, should he return to her anymore?”+

Has that land* not positively been polluted?+

“And you* yourself have committed prostitution with many companions;+ and should there be a returning to me?”+ is the utterance of Jehovah.

11 “For both the prophet and the priest themselves have become polluted.+ Also in my own house I have found their badness,”+ is the utterance of Jehovah.