A man shall not take his father's wife, his stepmother, nor discover (uncover) his father's skirt. Incestuous lust is self-injury and a transgression also against the father, by the defiling of his bed. Cf Leviticus 18:6; Ezekiel 16:8; Deuteronomy 27:20. The Lord wants only such servants as are pure and unspotted before Him, members of a people consecrated to His holiness.
Verse Deuteronomy 22:30. _A MAN SHALL NOT TAKE HIS FATHER'S WIFE_] This is to be understood as referring to the case of a _stepmother_. A man in his old age may have married a young wife, and on his...
18. AGAINST INHUMANITY AND DIFFERENT VIOLATIONS, False Testimony and Sins of Adultery CHAPTER 22 _ 1. Laws against inhumanity (Deuteronomy 22:1)_ 2. Concerning false testimony (Deuteronomy 22:13)...
SINS AGAINST PURE MARRIAGES. Deuteronomy 22:14. tokens of virginity: their absence is now known not to be necessarily a proof of pre-nuptial unchastity, though the ancient peoples held the contrary, a...
SKIRT. Put by Figure of speech _Euphemy_ (App-6), for nakedness. Compare Leviticus 18:7; Leviticus 18:8; Leviticus 20:11....
Six Laws on Cases of Unchastity Of these the first five prescribe the procedure in criminal cases: 1st. Of a Husband's Charges against His Bride (Deuteronomy 22:13-21); 2nd. Of Adultery (Deuteronomy...
(Heb. ch. Deuteronomy 23:1.) Against Intercourse with a Father's Wife, cp. Deuteronomy 27:20, and H, Leviticus 18:8; Leviticus 20:11
_VER._ 30. _NOR DISCOVER HIS FATHER'S SKIRT_— A modest phrase for unlawful commerce. See the places referred to in the margins of our Bibles....
(5) IMPURITY TOWARD A FATHER'S WIFE (Deuteronomy 22:30) 30 A man shall not take his father's wife, and shall not uncover his father's skirt. THOUGHT QUESTIONS 22:30 384. Consider Leviticus 18:8; Le...
LAWS REGARDING LOST PROPERTY, DISTINCTION OF SEX IN APPAREL, AND CHASTITY 1-4. Law of Lost Property: see Exodus 23:4 and note....
DEUTERONOMY: GOD’S LAW OF LOVE LOVE AND OBEY THE *LORD YOUR GOD DEUTERONOMY _PHILIP SMITH_ CHAPTER 22 V1 ‘You may see that your neighbour’s *ox or sheep is loose. If you do, you must not avoid i...
_[Deuteronomy 23:1]_ לֹא ־יִקַּ֥ח אִ֖ישׁ אֶת ־אֵ֣שֶׁת...
LAWS OF PURITY (CHASTITY AND MARRIAGE) IN dealing with the ten commandments it has been already shown that, though these great statements of religious and moral truth were to some extent inadequate as...
LAWS OF KINDNESS WITH the commands we now have to consider, we leave altogether the region of strict law, and enter entirely upon that of aspiration and of feeling. Kindness, by its very nature, elude...
Here we have the record of the laws conditioning life in love and neighborliness. Every man was enjoined to take care of his brother's lost things if he found them; and he was also to help the hurt an...
A man shall not (l) take his father's wife, nor discover his father's skirt. (l) He shall not lie with his stepmother, meaning by this all other variations forbidden in (Lev. 18:1-30)....
_Covering. See Leviticus xx. 11. A wife should be hidden from all but her husband. (Haydock)_...
REFLECTIONS HOLY SPIRIT of truth! enable me to see the precious designs of thy blessed will, in the compassion thou hast manifested by those precepts of tenderness, by which thy people are to show the...
Some of the laws in this book of Leviticus, were before given: Leviticus 20:10. The repetition in this place, only serves to intimate their importance. And it is a very solemn consideration, equally i...
It is clear that a new division of the statutes and judgments of this book begins with the later verses just read from Deuteronomy 16:1-22. What belonged to the religious life of Israel was closed wit...
30._A man shall not take his father’s wife_. Since Moses does not here refer to any other kinds of incest, but speaks only of that with a step-mother, it is probable that, what he had more fully set f...
THE FOLLOWING COMMENTARY COVERS CHAPTER S 22, 23, 24, AND 25. Chapter 22 appears to contain ordinances to guard the people from want of benevolence and mercy, and of that which would offend the sensib...
A MAN SHALL NOT TAKE HIS FATHER'S WIFE,.... Not marry her, whether his own mother, or a stepmother; or even, as Aben Ezra thinks, anyone that was deflowered by his father. Jarchi interprets it of his...
1 Of humanitie toward brethren. 5 The sexe is to bee distinguished by apparell. 6 The dam is not to be taken with her yong ones. 8 The house must haue battlements. 9 Confusion is to be auoyded. 1...
LAWS THAT TEST TRUE DISCERNMENT (vs.1-12) The laws in this section require a proper consideration of God's creation, whether of humans, animals, birds or even inanimate things. This involves our disc...
13-30 These and the like regulations might be needful then, and yet it is not necessary that we should curiously examine respecting them. The laws relate to the seventh commandment, laying a restraint...
SHALL NOT TAKE TO WIFE. So this respects the state, and the next branch speaks of the act only. HIS FATHER'S WIFE; his mother-in-law. See LEVITICUS 18:8, LEVITICUS 20:11 1 CORINTHIANS 5:1. His father'
The portion of our book on which we now enter, though not calling for elaborate exposition, yet teaches us two very important practical lessons In the first place, many of the institutions and ordinan...
Deuteronomy 22:30 man H376 take H3947 (H8799) fathers H1 wife H802 uncover H1540 (H8762) fathers H1 bed...
A SON MUST NOT MAKE LOVE TO HIS FATHER'S WIFE (DEUTERONOMY 22:30) Deuteronomy 22:30 ‘ A man shall not take his father's wife, and shall not uncover his father's skirt.' The short section on sexual...
DEALING WITH SEXUAL MISBEHAVIOUR (DEUTERONOMY 22:22). Various aspect of sexual misbehaviour are dealt with in this passage with the most heinous at the beginning and the end. Analysis using the word...
CONTENTS: Law of brotherhood, separation, unchaste wives and husbands. CHARACTERS: God, Moses. CONCLUSION: Christianity teaches us to be neighborly and to be ready to do all good offices as we have...
Deuteronomy 22:5. _All that do so are abomination to the Lord._ The note of Maimonides here is, that men presenting themselves before Venus, appeared partially in female attire; and women presenting t...
DEUTERONOMY—NOTE ON DEUTERONOMY 22:30 UNCOVER HIS FATHER’S NAKEDNESS. See esv footnote; also Deuteronomy 27:20. It prob
CRITICAL NOTES.—The cases stated and provided for in Deuteronomy 22:1 seem selected by way of example, and belong, according to our notions, rather to ethics than to law. It in noteworthy that no pena...
EXPOSITION REGULATIONS REGARDING CATTLE STRAYED OR THINGS LOST, THE APPAREL OF THE SEXES, THE TAKING OF BIRDS, AND THE CONSTRUCTION OF
Now in chapter twenty-two, now in those days they punished people for none involvement. If you saw your brother's ox or his sheep going astray, and you just try to ignore it: [you don't go out and get...
1 Corinthians 5:1; 1 Corinthians 5:13; Deuteronomy 27:20; Ezekiel 16:8;...
Take — To wife. So this respects the state, and the next branch speaks of the act only....