<t /><p class="bodytext">Now when these things had been completed, the leaders approached me and said, &#8220;The people of Israel, the priests, and the Levites have not separated themselves from the local residents<n id="1" /> who practice detestable things similar to those of the Canaanites, the Hittites, the Perizzites, the Jebusites, the Ammonites, the Moabites, the Egyptians, and the Amorites.