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Leviticus 18:26-30

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26 But 1you shall keep my statutes and my rules and do none of these abominations, either the 2native or the stranger who sojourns among you
27 (for the people of the land, who were before you, did all of these abominations, so that the land became unclean),
28 lest the land vomit you out when you make it unclean, as it vomited out the nation that was before you.
29 For everyone who does any of these abominations, the persons who do them shall be cut off from among their people.
30 3So keep my charge never to practice 4any of these abominable customs that were practiced before you, and never to make yourselves unclean by them: 5I am the LORD your God."
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Leviticus 18:26-30 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 5

  • 1. See ver. 4, 5
  • 2. See Leviticus 16:29
  • 3. Leviticus 22:9
  • 4. ver. 3, 26; Leviticus 20:23; Deuteronomy 18:9
  • 5. See ver. 2
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