(For all these abominations have the men of the land done, which were before you, and the land is defiled;)
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For all these abominations have the men of the land done,.... The then present inhabitants of Canaan, who dwelt in it before the Israelites came into it; these were guilty of unclean copulations, of…
The land designed and consecrated for His people by Yahweh Lev 25:23 is here impersonated, and represented as vomiting forth its present inhabitants, in consequence of their indulgence in the…
Here is, I. A law to preserve the honour of the marriage-bed, that it should not be unseasonably used (Lev 18:19), nor invaded by an adulterer, Lev 18:20.
II. A law against that which was the most…
See general note at the beginning of the ch. These vv.are probably expanded from earlier materials. After the warning in Lev 18:18 the standpoint changes, and the remainder of the passage is a…
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