18:24 “‘Do not defile yourselves with any of these things, for the nations which I am about to drive out before you1 have been defiled with all these things.
[18:24]1tnHeb “which I am sending away (Piel participle of שָׁלַח [shalakh, “to send”]) from your faces.” The rendering here takes the participle as anticipatory of the coming conquest events.
