Leviticus 20:6-8

6 "If ¹a person turns to mediums and necromancers, whoring after them, ²I will set my face against that person and will cut him off from among his people.

7 ³Consecrate yourselves, therefore, and be holy, for I am the LORD your God.

8 ⁴Keep my statutes and do them; ⁵I am the LORD who sanctifies you.

Leviticus 20:6-8 Meaning and Commentary

INTRODUCTION TO LEVITICUS 20

In this chapter several laws are, repeated, enforced with a penalty annexed to them, and the breach them made capital, to deter from it, as giving seed to Molech, Le 20:1-5; going after such that have familiar spirits, or are wizards, Le 20:6; by shunning which, and other sins, a regard would be shown to holiness, Le 20:7,8; such as cursing parents, Le 20:9; committing adultery, Le 20:10; incestuous copulations, and marriages, and beastly actions, Le 20:11-21; all which it became the Israelites to avoid, lest, when come into the land of Canaan, they should be cast out of it, as the old inhabitants were for the same things, Le 20:22-24; and therefore, that they might appear to be a distinct people from others, they were to put a difference between clean and unclean creatures, Le 20:25,26; and the chapter is closed with a law, making it death for any person to have a familiar spirit, or to be a wizard, Le 19:27.

Cross References

• 1. See Leviticus 19:31
• 2. See Leviticus 17:10
• 3. See Leviticus 11:44
• 4. See Leviticus 18:4
• 5. Leviticus 21:8, 15, 23; Leviticus 22:32; Exodus 31:13; Ezekiel 37:28