Chapter 18:
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Leviticus 18
18:3
After the
a doings of the land of Egypt,
wherein ye dwelt, shall ye not do: and after the doings of the land of Canaan,
whither I bring you, shall ye not do: neither shall ye walk in their ordinances.
(
a) You shall preserve yourselves from these
abominations following, which the Egyptians and Canaanites use.
18:5 Ye shall therefore keep my
statutes, and my judgments: which if a man do, he shall live in them:
b
I [am] the LORD.
(
b) And therefore you ought to serve me alone, as
my people.
18:6 None of you shall approach to any that is near
of kin to him, to
c uncover [their]
nakedness: I [am] the LORD.
(
c) That is, to lie with her, though it be under
title of marriage.
18:8 The nakedness of thy
father's
d wife shalt thou not
uncover: it [is] thy father's nakedness.
(
d) Which is your stepmother.
18:9 The nakedness of thy
e
sister, the daughter of thy father, or daughter of thy mother, [whether she be]
born at home, or born abroad, [even] their nakedness thou shalt not uncover.
(
e) Either by father or mother, born in marriage
or otherwise.
18:10 The nakedness of thy son's daughter, or of
thy daughter's daughter, [even] their nakedness thou shalt not uncover: for
theirs [is] thine own
f nakedness.
(
f) They are her children whose shame you have
uncovered.
18:14
Thou shalt not uncover the nakedness of thy
g
father's brother, thou shalt not approach to his wife: she [is] thine aunt.
(
g) Which your uncle discovers.
18:16 Thou shalt not uncover
the nakedness of thy
h brother's wife:
it [is] thy brother's nakedness.
(
h) Because the idolaters, among whom God's
people had dwelt and would dwell, were given to these horrible incests, God
charges his own to beware of them.
18:18 Neither shalt thou take
a wife to her sister, to
i vex [her], to
uncover her nakedness, beside the other in her life [time].
(
i) By seeing your affection more bent to her
sister than to her.
18:19 Also thou shalt not approach unto a woman to
uncover her nakedness, as long as she is put
k
apart for her uncleanness.
(
k) Or while she has her period.
18:21 And thou shalt not let
any of thy seed pass through [the fire] to
l
Molech, neither shalt thou profane the name of thy God: I [am] the LORD.
(
l) Which was an idol of the Ammonites, to whom
they burned and sacrificed their children, (
2 Kings
23:10). This seemed to be the chief and principal of all idols: and as the
Jews write, was of a great stature, and hollow within, having seven places or
chambers within him: one was to receive meal that was offered: another turtle
doves: the third, a sheep: the fourth, a ram: the fifth a calf: the sixth an
ox: the seventh a child. This idols face was like a calf: his hands were ever
stretched out to receive gifts: his priests were called Chemarims, (
2 Kings
23:5;
Hosea
10:5;
Zephaniah
1:4).
18:25
And the land is defiled: therefore I do
m
visit the iniquity thereof upon it, and the land itself
n
vomiteth out her inhabitants.
(
m) I will punish the land where such incestuous
marriages and pollutions are tolerated.
(
n) He compares the wicked to evil humours and
overeating, which corrupt the stomach, and oppress nature, and therefore must
be cast out by vomit.
18:28
That the land spue not you out also, when ye defile it, as it
o
spued out the nations that [were] before you.
(
o) Both for their wicked marriages, unnatural
copulations, idolatry or spiritual whoredom with Molech and such like
abominations.
18:29 For whosoever shall commit any of these
abominations, even the souls that commit [them] shall
p
be cut off from among their people.
(
p) Either by the civil sword or by some plague
that God will send upon such.
Chapter 18:
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Introduction 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 Exodus Numbers
Genesis
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