23. “Men, you must not have sexual relations with any animal. This will make you filthy. And women, you must not have sexual relations with any animal. It is against nature!
24. “Don’t make yourself unclean by doing any of these wrong things! I am throwing nations off their land and giving it to you because they did those terrible sins.
25. They made the land filthy. Now the land is sick of those things, and it will vomit out the people who live there.
26. “So you must obey my laws and rules. You must not do any of these terrible sins. These rules are for the citizens of Israel and the people living among you.
27. Those who lived in the land before you have done all these terrible things. So the land became filthy.
28. If you do these things, you will make the land filthy. And it will vomit you out as it vomited out the nations that were there before you.