‏ Leviticus 20:11-27

Lev 18:8; Deut 27:20, Deut 27:23; Amos 2:7; 1Cor 5:1

their Lev 20:9

lie Lev 18:15; Gen 38:16, Gen 38:18; Deut 27:23

confusion Lev 18:23

Lev 18:22; Gen 19:5; Deut 23:17; Judg 19:22; Rom 1:26-27; 1Cor 6:9; 1Tim 1:10; Jude 1:7

a wife Lev 18:17; Deut 27:23; Amos 2:7

burnt Lev 21:9; Josh 7:15, Josh 7:25

Lev 18:23; Exod 22:19; Deut 27:21

And if a woman We are assured by Herodotus (in Euterp) that the abominations here referred to existed among the Egyptians, and even formed part of their superstitious religious system, and we have reason to believe that they were not uncommon among the Canaanites. (See note on Lev 18:24-25). Need we wonder then, that God should have made laws of this nature, and appointed the punishment of death for these crimes? This one observation will account for many of those strange prohibitions which we find in the Mosaic law.

and the beast Exod 19:13, Exod 21:28, Exod 21:32; Heb 12:20

Lev 18:9; Gen 20:12; Deut 27:22; 2Sam 13:12; Ezek 22:11

having Lev 15:24, Lev 18:19; Ezek 18:6, Ezek 22:10

discovered Heb. made naked

mother's Lev 18:12, Lev 18:13-30; Exod 6:20

uncovereth Lev 18:6

uncle's wife Lev 18:14

childless Job 18:19; Ps 109:13; Jer 22:30; Luke 1:7, Luke 1:25, Luke 23:29

his brother's Lev 18:16; Matt 14:3-4

an unclean thing Heb. a separation

statutes Lev 18:4-5, Lev 18:26, Lev 19:37; Ps 19:8-11, Ps 105:45, Ps 119:80, Ps 119:145, Ps 119:171; Ezek 36:27

judgments Exod 21:1; Deut 4:45, Deut 5:1; Ps 119:20, Ps 119:106, Ps 119:160, Ps 119:164, Ps 119:175; Isa 26:8-9

spue you Lev 18:25-28, Lev 26:33; Deut 28:25-26

in the manners Lev 18:3, Lev 18:24, Lev 18:30; Deut 12:30-31; Jer 10:1-2

therefore Lev 18:27; Deut 9:5; Ps 78:59; Zech 11:8

But I Exod 3:8, Exod 3:17, Exod 6:8

a land Milk and honey were the chief dainties of the ancients as they are now among the Arabs, particularly the Bedouins. Hence not only the Hebrews, but also the Greeks and Romans, painted the highest pleasantness and fertility by an abundance of milk and honey. The image used in the text, and frequently by ancient authors on similar subjects, is a metaphor, derived from a breast, producing copious streams of milk.

which Lev 20:26; Exod 19:5-6, Exod 33:16; Num 23:9; Deut 7:6, Deut 14:2; 1Kgs 8:53; John 15:19; 2Cor 6:17; 1Pet 2:9

put difference Lev 11:1-47; Deut 14:3-21; Acts 10:11-15, Acts 10:28; Eph 5:7-11

abominable Lev 11:43

creepeth or, moveth

the Lord Lev 20:7, Lev 19:2; Ps 99:5, Ps 99:9; Isa 6:3, Isa 30:11; 1Pet 1:15-16; Rev 3:7, Rev 4:8

severed Lev 20:24; Deut 7:6, Deut 14:2, Deut 26:18-19; Titus 2:14

a familiar Lev 20:6, Lev 19:31; Exod 22:18; Deut 18:10-12; 1Sam 28:7-9

their blood Lev 20:9

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