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Leviticus 18:21-30

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21 'You shall not give any of your offspring 1to offer them to Molech, nor shall you 2profane the name of your God; I am the LORD.
22 '3You shall not lie with a male as one lies with a female; it is an abomination.
23 '4Also you shall not have intercourse with any animal to be defiled with it, nor shall any woman stand before an animal to mate with it; it is a perversion.
24 'Do not defile yourselves by any of these things; for by all these 5the nations which I am casting out before * you have become defiled.
25 'For the land has become defiled, 6therefore I have brought its punishment upon it, so the land 7has spewed out its inhabitants.
26 'But as for you, you are to keep My statutes and My judgments and shall not do any * of these abominations, neither the native, nor the alien who sojourns among you
27 (for the men of the land who have been before you have done all these abominations, and the land has become defiled );
28 so that the land will not spew you out, should you defile it, as it has spewed out the nation which has been before you.
29 'For whoever * does any * of these abominations, those persons who do so shall be cut off from among their people.
30 'Thus you are to keep 8My charge, that you do not practice any of the abominable customs which have been practiced before you, so as not to defile yourselves with them; 9I am the LORD your God.' "
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Leviticus 18:21-30 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 9

  • 1. Leviticus 20:2-5; Deuteronomy 12:31
  • 2. Leviticus 19:12; Leviticus 20:3; Leviticus 21:6; Ezekiel 36:20; Malachi 1:12
  • 3. Leviticus 20:13; Deut 23:18 mg; Romans 1:27
  • 4. Exodus 22:19; Leviticus 20:15, 16; Deuteronomy 27:21
  • 5. Leviticus 18:3; Deuteronomy 18:12
  • 6. Leviticus 20:23; Deuteronomy 9:5; Deuteronomy 18:12
  • 7. Leviticus 18:28; Leviticus 20:22
  • 8. Leviticus 22:9; Deuteronomy 11:1
  • 9. Leviticus 18:2

Footnotes 5

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