# 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.