Kretzmann's Popular Commentary
Leviticus 18:8
The nakedness of thy father's wife, the stepmother, thou shalt not uncover; it is thy father's nakedness.
The nakedness of thy father's wife, the stepmother, thou shalt not uncover; it is thy father's nakedness.
Compare the case of Reuben, Genesis 49:3. See 1 Corinthians 5:1....
V. PRACTICAL HOLINESS IN DAILY LIFE 1. Different Unholy Relationships CHAPTER 18 _ 1. Separation and obedience (Leviticus 18:1)_ 2. Unholy relationships (Leviticus 18:6) 3. Vile and abominable pr...
FORBIDDEN DEGREES OF MARRIAGE. After a general preface (Leviticus 18:6) the relationships are given in detail. The phrase uncover the nakedness is almost confined to Leviticus 17-20, Ezek., and Genesi...
FATHER'S WIFE. See Gen 35:22. 2 Samuel 16:20; 1 Kings 2:17, and 1 Corinthians 5:1. This verse clarifies Genesis 9:22, and see als
This is the one case which appears (apart from two others in the imprecations, Deuteronomy 27:22-23), but stated in different words, in Deut. (Deuteronomy 22:30 [Hebrews 23:1],...
Laws dealing with various Moral Subjects These three chs. contain features common to two or all three of them, which are found nowhere else in the Pentateuch. Such are (1) a collection of laws combin...
PROHIBITED MARRIAGE RELATIONSHIPS 18:6-18 TEXT 18:6-18 6 None of you shall approach to any that are near of kin to him, to uncover _their_ nakedness: I am Jehovah. 7 The nakedness of thy father, e...
_THE NAKEDNESS OF THY FATHER, OR THE NAKEDNESS OF THY MOTHER, SHALT THOU NOT UNCOVER: SHE IS THY MOTHER; THOU SHALT NOT UNCOVER HER NAKEDNESS._ The nakedness of thy father, or the nakedness of thy mo...
LAW OF FORBIDDEN DEGREES OF MARRIAGE, AND OF CHASTITY 3. Some of the unions here forbidden as incestuous were permitted among the nations of antiquity. The early Egyptians, e.g. permitted marriage wit...
FATHER'S WIFE] This is not the same as 'mother' in the previous v. so that polygamy is here presupposed. It was common, perhaps universal, in the East at the time of Moses. The Mosaic Law did not seek...
LEVITICUS *WORSHIP THE *LORD IN THE BEAUTY OF *HOLINESS LEVITICUS _GORDON CHURCHYARD_ This commentary HAS BEEN through Advanced Checking. Words in boxes are from the Bible, except for the words i...
THE NAKEDNESS OF THY FATHER’S WIFE. — Whilst the former prohibition refers to the son’s own mother, this law is directed against illicit commerce with his stepmother. Here we have an instance where th...
עֶרְוַ֥ת אֵֽשֶׁת ־אָבִ֖יךָ לֹ֣א תְגַלֵּ֑ה עֶרְוַ֥ת...
THE LAW OF HOLINESS: CHASTITY Leviticus 18:1 Chapter S 18, 19, and 20, by a formal introduction Leviticus 18:1 and a formal closing, Leviticus 20:22 are indicated as a distinct section, very commonly...
At this point in the enunciation of the laws of separation they assume a slightly altered character. So far, the fundamental matters of relationships to God have been the principal note. Now the habit...
The nakedness of thy father's (d) wife shalt thou not uncover: it [is] thy father's nakedness. (d) Which is your stepmother....
_Father. He hath known her; and to him she belongs, as being one flesh. (Haydock) --- If he were even dead, it would shew a want of respect to marry his widow, though she were not your own mother. (Ca...
These precepts, considered in a moral sense, carry with them conviction of their own propriety. And if explained spiritually, they serve to convey this idea, that the souls who are taken into covenant...
We have seen the various forms of the work of Christ, of His offering of Himself to God, whether in all the perfectness of His life, or in His death as the means of our acceptance. We have seen furthe...
Chapter 18 keeps them from dishonouring themselves in the things which belong to nature itself-to what man ought to be in his natural relations, that he might not dishonour himself. Man ought not to d...
THE NAKEDNESS OF THY FATHER'S WIFE SHALT THOU NOT UNCOVER,.... That is, who is indeed a man's father's wife, but not his own mother, but a stepmother or mother-in-law; or otherwise this law would coin...
The nakedness of thy father's wife shalt thou not uncover: it [is] thy father's nakedness. Ver. 8. It is thy father's nakedness.] For "the wife hath not power over her own body, but the husband": 1Co...
[VNLAWFULL MARRIAGES.] 1 Vnlawfull Marriages. 19 Vnlawfull lusts. 1 AND the LORD spake vnto Moses, saying, 2 Speake vnto the children of Israel, and say vnto them, I am the LORD your God. 3 After...
FORBIDDING SEXUAL SINS (VV. 1-30) Chapter 17 has dealt with sin directly against God; now chapter 18 speaks of sin in relationship with other creatures, primarily humans, but also animals (v. 23). Mos...
i.e. Thy step-mother. Examples of this are GENESIS 35:22, GENESIS 49:4 1 CORINTHIANS 5:1. IT IS THY FATHER'S NAKEDNESS, by interest and relation; that which he only may uncover....
LEVITICUS 20:1-27. This section sets before us, in a very remarkable manner, the personal sanctity and moral propriety which Jehovah looked for, on the part of those whom He had graciously introduced...
Leviticus 18:8 nakedness H6172 fathers H1 wife H802 uncover H1540 (H8762) fathers H1 nakedness H6172...
RELATIONSHIPS WITHIN FAMILIES (LEVITICUS 18:6). Leviticus 18:6 “None of you shall approach to any who are near of kin to him, to uncover their nakedness: I am Yahweh.” Firstly the initial principle...
CONTENTS: Relationship and walk of God's people. CHARACTERS: God, Moses. CONCLUSION: Fleshly lusts war against the soul and will certainly be the ruin of it, if God's mercy and grace prevent not. K...
Leviticus 18:21. _Molech,_ or Moloch, was the chief idol of the Sabians, and of the Ammonites. 1 Kings 11:7; 1 Kings 11:33. To this idol Solomon built a high place on mount Olivet. The form of the ido...
_None of you shall approach to any that is near of kin to him._ CONSANGUINITY 1. God the institutor of marriage (Leviticus 18:6). 2. Faith in Christ not commanded in the law (Leviticus 18:5). 3. O...
LEVITICUS—NOTE ON LEVITICUS 18:1 The Call to Holiness. This section applies the principle of holiness (Leviticus 19:1) to various aspects of Israelite life. Chapte
LEVITICUS—NOTE ON LEVITICUS 18:6 These laws prohibit sexual relations (APPROACH... TO UNCOVER NAKEDNESS), and therefore marriage, between people who are too closely related, either by blood (mother, s...
Incestuous Marriages: Domestic Purity SUGGESTIVE READINGS Leviticus 18:2.—Speak unto them and say, I am the Lord your God. Jehovah is the sole lawgiver, His word the one law to His people: ungodly cu...
PART III. SECTION III. EXPOSITION MORAL UNCLEANNESS AND ITS PUNISHMENT. This being the subject of the three following chapters (chapters 18-20), they naturally form a sequence to chapters 11-17, whic...
Here we find the term used over and over again, "For I am the Lord your God." So God wants a holy people. He tells them how they are to walk with them. "For I am the Lord your God", and actually layin...
1 Corinthians 5:1; 2 Samuel 16:21; 2 Samuel 16:22; Amos 2:7;...