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601 B
Why do you make yourselves unclean with the ways of your fathers?
"You should not make yourselves unclean by doing the things that your fathers did." Yahweh rebukes the people.
Why do you make yourselves unclean
A person who is not acceptable for God's purposes is spoken of as if the person were physically unclean.
So why do you act like prostitutes, searching for disgusting things?
"You should not act like prostitutes, searching for disgusting things."
why do you act like prostitutes
Yahweh speaks as if they were acting like women who sleep with men to whom they are not married.