Verse Leviticus 19:26. _NEITHER SHALL YE USE ENCHANTMENT_] לא תנחשו _lo_ _thenachashu_. Conjecture itself can do little towards a proper explanation of the terms used in this verse. נחש _nachash_; Ge...
Certain pagan customs, several of them connected with magic, are here grouped together. The prohibition to eat anything with the blood may indeed refer to the eating of meat which had not been properl...
2. DIFFERENT DUTIES CHAPTER 19 _ 1. Honoring parents and fearing God (Leviticus 19:1)_ 2. The care of the poor (Leviticus 19:9) 3. Against stealing and lying (Leviticus 19:11) 4
MISCELLANEOUS PRECEPTS, all found elsewhere, except the last. Most of the forbidden actions have some magical significance, _e.g._ cutting the hair in a special fashion, or maiming oneself (originally...
OBSERVE TIMES: i.e. watch clouds, or days, for good or ill luck, e.g. not commencing. journey on. Friday. See note on Leviticus 19:31 below....
_with the blood_ The LXX. has here instead -upon the mountains," probably influenced by the phrase in Ezekiel 18:6; Ezekiel 22:9, which, however, according to Rob.-Sm. (_Kinship_, p. 312), should be a...
Miscellaneous precepts in reference to the various circumstances of every-day life....
NOR OBSERVE TIMES— This should certainly be read, _nor augur_ or _divine by clouds;_ which is well known to have been a general practice among the heathens. That this is the precise meaning of the ori...
VARIOUS ORDINANCES 19:19-29 TEXT 19:19-29 19 Ye shall keep my statutes. Thou shalt not let thy cattle gender with a diverse kind: thou shalt not sow thy field with two kinds of seed: neither shall t...
_YE SHALL NOT EAT ANY THING WITH THE BLOOD: NEITHER SHALL YE USE ENCHANTMENT, NOR OBSERVE TIMES._ Ye shall not eat any thing with the blood, х_ `AL_ (H5921) _ HADAAM_ (H1818)] - upon the blood. This...
VARIOUS LAWS, MAINLY OF A MORAL AND HUMANE CHARACTER This chapter was very naturally regarded by Jewish authorities as an embodiment of the Decalogue. It will be observed that in general the precepts...
USE ENCHANTMENT] charms or incantations. OBSERVE TIMES] RV 'practise augury,' perhaps by watching the clouds or the flight of birds: see on Deuteronomy 18:10....
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...
YE SHALL NOT EAT ANY THING WITH THE BLOOD. — According to the administrators of the law during the second Temple, there are no less than five different things forbidden here. It prohibits (1) eating t...
לֹ֥א תֹאכְל֖וּ עַל ־הַ דָּ֑ם לֹ֥א תְנַחֲשׁ֖וּ
THE LAW OF HOLINESS (CONCLUDED) Leviticus 19:1 WE have in this chapter a series of precepts and prohibitions which from internal evidence appear to have been selected by an inspired redactor of the c...
The more positive habits of separation are insisted on by the repetition of laws already given, with one reiterated emphasis, namely, the fact that the God of this people is Jehovah. There was, first,...
Ye shall not eat [any thing] with the blood: neither shall ye use enchantment, nor (i) observe times. (i) To measure lucky or unlucky days....
Blood. The flesh of any animal. The blood must belong to God. The members of the Sanhedrim eat nothing on the day that a criminal is executed, supposing that this is the meaning of the precept. The Se...
These precepts are rather obscure. It is probable, that they refer to the heathenish practices of the idolatrous neighbours around Israel. And if so, they serve to teach, that everything which hath th...
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...
THE FOLLOWING COMMENTARY COVERS CHAPTER S 19 AND 20. Chapter s 19, 20, carry us somewhat farther. They were to be holy, for Jehovah was holy. Chapter 19 takes up rather the side of good, though keepin...
YE SHALL NOT EAT [ANYTHING] WITH THE BLOOD,.... Or upon, over, or by the blood s, for this law seems different from that in Genesis 9:4, and from those in Leviticus 3:17; and is variously interpreted...
Ye shall not eat [any thing] with the blood: neither shall ye use enchantment, nor observe times. Ver. 26. _Neither shall ye use enchantment._] Or, observe fortunes, conjecture by signs of good or ev...
_Any thing with the blood_ Any flesh out of which the blood is not first poured. _Neither shall ye use enchantments_ It was unpardonable in them, to whom _were committed the oracles of God_, to ask co...
1 A repetition of sundry Lawes. 1 AND the LORD spake vnto Moses, saying, 2 Speake vnto all the Congregation of the children of Israel, and say vnto them, [NOTE: Leviticus 11:44; Leviticus 20:7; 1 Pet...
MANY LAWS GROUPED TOGETHER (VV. 1-37) We have seen at the beginning and end of chapter 18 God's announcement, “I am the Lord your God.” In chapter 19 the expression “I am the Lord” occurs 15 times. Bu...
WITH THE BLOOD, i. e. any flesh out of which the blood is not first poured. See 1 SAMUEL 14:32. The Jews write, that the Egyptians and other nations, when they offered sacrifices to the devils, did ea...
Leviticus 19:26 eat H398 (H8799) blood H1818 divination H5172 (H8762) soothsaying H6049 (H8779) with the bloo
BANS IN RELIGIOUS MATTERS: WARNINGS AGAINST PAGAN PRACTISES (LEVITICUS 19:26). There now follow in the name of Yahweh a number of provisions banning various aspects connected with ‘other-worldly' pra...
CONTENTS: Further laws concerning proper relationships. CHARACTERS: God, Moses. CONCLUSION: God's people being distinguished from all other people by a peculiar relationship with Him through Christ,...
The leading precepts of the law are here repeated to give them new force, and with many additions and illustrations, that they might be better understood. Most of these having already been explained,...
Practical Piety: Religion in all Relationships SUGGESTIVE READINGS Leviticus 19:2.—Speak unto all the congregation of the children of Israel, and say: Nowhere else in the whole of Leviticus does this...
EXPOSITION From the prohibition of moral uncleanness exhibiting itself in the form of incest and licentiousness, the legislator proceeds to a series of laws and commandments against other kinds of imm...
Now God continues in this same vein, as He moves into chapter nineteen. Speak unto all of the congregation of the children of Israel, and say unto them, Ye shall be holy: for I the Lord your God am ho...
1 Samuel 15:23; 2 Chronicles 33:6; 2 Kings 17:17; 2 Kings 21:6;...
Any thing with the blood — Any flesh out of which the blood is poured. Neither shall ye use enchantments — It was unpardonable in them, to whom were committed the oracles of God, to ask counsel of the...