He once evicted an immoral and wicked people from the fertile Jordan Valley and assured the new caretakers of the land, who were in a covenant with him, that if they kept his statutes, ‘ the land would not vomit them out for their defiling it the same way as it would certainly vomit the nations out who were before them. ’ — Leviticus 18: 24 - 28.
नष्ट होने के लिए चिन्हित दुष्ट समाज ही प्रकाशितवाक्य २१: १ में, जिसे पहले उद्धृत किया गया है, ज़िक्र की गई ‘ पहिली पृथ्वी ’ है ।