¹⁷ Then to Adam He said, ^(A)“Because you have heeded the voice of your wife, and have eaten from the tree ^(B)of which I commanded you, saying, ‘You shall not eat of it’:

^24 (A)‘Do not defile yourselves with any of these things; ^(B)for by all these the nations are defiled, which I am casting out before you.

¹⁸ “But I said to their children in the wilderness, ‘Do not walk in the statutes of your fathers, nor observe their judgments, nor defile yourselves with their idols.