24“Do not make yourselves unclean by any of these things, for by all these the nations I am driving out before you have become unclean,
The first reason is presented in the form of a command. The word unclean (ṭm’) refers to that which is immoral and impure. The Canaanites have acted in these ways and as a result that they been driven out of the land.
24 “Do not make yourselves unclean by any of these things, for by all these the nations I am driving out before you have become unclean,