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Leviticus 18:17-27

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17 You must not expose the nakedness of a woman and her daughter, or her son's daughter, or her daughter's daughter; you must not take [her as wife] to expose her nakedness; they [are] {close relatives}--that [is] wickedness.
18 And you must not take [as wife] a woman with her sister, to be a rival-wife, to expose her nakedness before her {during} her life.
19 " 'And you must not {have sex with} a woman to expose her nakedness {during} her menstrual uncleanness.
20 And {you must not have sex} with your fellow citizen's wife, becoming unclean with her.
21 " 'And you shall not give {any of} your offspring in order to sacrifice [them] to Molech, nor shall you profane the name of your God; I [am] Yahweh.
22 And you shall not lie with a male as lying {with} a woman; that [is] a detestable thing.
23 And you shall not {have sexual relations} with any animal, becoming unclean with it; and a woman shall not stand {before} an animal to copulate with it--that [is] a perversion.
24 " 'You must not make yourself unclean in any of these [things], because the nations whom I am driving out from your presence were made unclean by all of these.
25 So the land became unclean, and {I have brought the punishment of} its guilt upon it, and the land has vomited out its inhabitants.
26 But you ([neither] the native nor the alien who is dwelling in your midst) shall keep my statutes and my regulations, and you shall not {practice} any of these detestable things
27 (because the people of the land, who [were] {before you}, did all these detestable things, so the land became unclean),
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Leviticus 18:17-27 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

Footnotes 20

  • [a]. The verb ??? is used to speak of marrying ("taking [a wife]")
  • [b]. Literally "flesh"; see vv. 6, 12, 13
  • [c]. The verb ??? is used to speak of marrying ("taking [a wife]")
  • [d]. Literally "in"
  • [e]. Literally "approach"
  • [f]. Literally "in"
  • [g]. Literally "you shall not give your lying down for semen"
  • [h]. Or "neighbor's"
  • [i]. Literally "from"
  • [j]. Or "descendants"
  • [k]. Or "and not"
  • [l]. Literally "of"
  • [m]. Literally "give your lying down"
  • [n]. Literally "to the faces of"
  • [o]. Or "And"
  • [p]. Literally "I have visited"
  • [q]. Or "And"
  • [r]. Or "and"
  • [s]. Literally "do"
  • [t]. Literally "to the faces of you"
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