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Leviticus 18:16-26

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16 1You shall not uncover the nakedness of your brother's wife; it is your brother's nakedness.
17 You shall not uncover the nakedness of a woman and of her daughter, and you shall not take her son's daughter or her daughter's daughter to uncover her nakedness; they are relatives; it is depravity.
18 And you shall not take a woman as a 2rival wife to her sister, uncovering her nakedness 3while her sister is still alive.
19 4"You shall not approach a woman to uncover her nakedness while she is in her menstrual uncleanness.
20 5And you shall not lie sexually with your neighbor's wife and so make yourself unclean with her.
21 You shall not give any of your children to 6offer them[a] to 7Molech, and so 8profane the name of your God: I am the LORD.
22 9You shall not lie with a male as with a woman; it is an abomination.
23 10And you shall not lie with any animal and so make yourself unclean with it, neither shall any woman give herself to an animal to lie with it: it is 11perversion.
24 12"Do not make yourselves unclean by any of these things, 13for by all these the nations I am driving out before you have become unclean,
25 and the 14land became unclean, so that I punished its iniquity, and the land 15vomited out its inhabitants.
26 But 16you shall keep my statutes and my rules and do none of these abominations, either the 17native or the stranger who sojourns among you
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Leviticus 18:16-26 Meaning and Commentary

INTRODUCTION TO LEVITICUS 18

In this chapter the Israelites are directed in general not to imitate the customs and practices of the Egyptians and Canaanites, but to keep the ordinances, statutes, and judgments of the Lord, Le 18:1-5; and they are instructed particularly to avoid incestuous marriages, Le 18:6-18; carnal copulation with a menstruous woman, Le 18:19; adultery, Le 18:20; letting any of their seed pass through the fire to Molech, Le 18:21; sodomy, Le 18:22; and bestiality, Le 18:23; and they are deterred from these things by observing to them the pollution and destruction which they brought on the inhabitants of Canaan, and would bring the same on them should they commit them, Le 18:24-30.

Taken from John Gill's Exposition of the Bible

Cross References 17

  • 1. [Genesis 38:8; Deuteronomy 25:5; Matthew 22:24; Mark 12:19; Luke 20:28]
  • 2. [1 Samuel 1:6]
  • 3. [Genesis 31:50]
  • 4. [Leviticus 15:24; Leviticus 20:18; Ezekiel 18:6; Ezekiel 22:10]
  • 5. See Exodus 20:14
  • 6. Leviticus 20:2-5; Deuteronomy 18:10
  • 7. [1 Kings 11:7, 33; Acts 7:43]
  • 8. Leviticus 19:12; Leviticus 20:3; Leviticus 21:6; Leviticus 22:2, 32; Ezekiel 36:20, 22; Malachi 1:12
  • 9. Leviticus 20:13; [Genesis 19:5; Judges 19:22; Romans 1:27; 1 Corinthians 6:9, 10; 1 Timothy 1:9, 10]
  • 10. Leviticus 20:15, 16; Exodus 22:19
  • 11. Leviticus 20:12
  • 12. ver. 30; [Matthew 15:19, 20; Mark 7:21-23]
  • 13. Leviticus 20:23; [Deuteronomy 18:12]
  • 14. Numbers 35:34; Jeremiah 2:7; Ezekiel 36:17
  • 15. Leviticus 20:22
  • 16. See ver. 4, 5
  • 17. See Leviticus 16:29

Footnotes 1

  • [a]. Hebrew to make them pass through [the fire]
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