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THEY SHALL DIE CHILDLESS - Either the offspring should not be regarded
as lawfully theirs, nor be entitled to any hereditary privileges, or
they should have no blessing in their children....
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3. WARNINGS AGAINST SPECIAL SINS AND THEIR PENALTIES
CHAPTER 20
_ 1. Warning against Molech--worship and familiar spirits (Leviticus
20:1)_
2. Warning against cursing parents (Leviticus 20:9)
3. C...
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PENALTIES FOR SEXUAL SINS generally death, the manner being
unspecified. Adultery, incest, sodomy head the list; the special case
of Leviticus 20:14 (contrast Amos 2:7) is followed by the burning of
a...
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SIN. penalty. Put by Figure of speech _Metonymy_ (of Cause). App-6....
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Directions on the whole similar to those of Leviticus 18:6-20;
Leviticus 18:22-23, but adding penalties for transgression....
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THEY SHALL DIE CHILDLESS— Whatever be the precise mode in which this
curse was to be executed, whether by the entire withholding of
children, or the speedy cutting them off when born; it affords us a...
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CURSING PARENTS-20:9
SEXUAL CRIMES-20:10-21
TEXT 20:9-21
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For every one that curseth his father or his mother shall surely be
put to death; he hath cursed his father or his mother; his blood shall...
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_SANCTIFY YOURSELVES THEREFORE, AND BE YE HOLY: FOR I AM THE LORD YOUR
GOD._
Sanctify yourselves ... and be ye holy. The minute specification of
the incestuous and unnatural crimes here enumerated sh...
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(CHS. 17-26) THE LAW OF HOLINESS
This section of Leviticus occupies a position by itself, being
distinguished from the rest of the book both by style and contents. A
few only of its main characteristi...
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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...
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HIS UNCLE’S WIFE. — See Leviticus 18:14....
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וְ אִ֗ישׁ אֲשֶׁ֤ר יִשְׁכַּב֙ אֶת
־דֹּ֣דָתֹ֔ו...
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PENAL SANCTIONS
Leviticus 20:1
In no age or community has it been found sufficient, to secure
obedience, that one should appeal to the conscience of men, or depend,
as a sufficient motive, upon the n...
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Once more we have a repetition of laws already enunciated with the
same persistent thought of responsibility. In this section we find the
death sentence associated with certain forms of disobedience,...
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And if a man shall lie with his uncle's wife, he hath uncovered his
uncle's nakedness: they shall bear their sin; they shall die (g)
childless.
(g) They shall be cut off from their people, and their...
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_Children. The Sadducees read, "they shall die naked." The present
Hebrew has simply, "they shall be without children;" their offspring
shall be illegitimate. (St. Augustine, q. 76.) God will not bles...
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What is here rehearsed concerning uncleanness, every Christian reader
may say, as the apostle, of such horrible corruptions in general, let
it not be once named among you as becometh saints. Ephesians...
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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...
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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...
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And if a man shall lie with his uncle's wife, he hath uncovered his
uncle's nakedness: they shall bear their sin; they shall die
childless.
Ver. 20. See on Leviticus 18:1,30 ....
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_They shall die childless_ Both shall be speedily cut off ere they can
have a child by that incestuous conjunction; or, if this seem a less
crime than most of the former incestuous mixtures, and there...
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1 Of him that giueth of his seed to Molech.
4 of him that fauoureth such an one.
6 Of going to Wizards.
7 Of sanctification.
9 Of him that curseth his parents.
10 Of adulterie. 11.14.17.19 Of Inc...
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And if a man shall lie with his uncle's wife, his aunt by marriage, HE
HATH UNCOVERED HIS UNCLE'S NAKEDNESS; THEY SHALL BEAR THEIR SIN; THEY
SHALL DIE CHILDLESS. While the marriage was not annulled, t...
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FOR UNLAWFUL MARRIAGES...
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PENALTIES FOR SIN GODWARD (VV. 1-8)
Chapter 19 has given many laws forbidding sin; now chapter 20 shows
that law, when it is broken, demands certain penalties. These
penalties were to be executed as s...
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10-27 These verses repeat what had been said before, but it was
needful there should be line upon line. What praises we owe to God
that he has taught the evil of sin, and the sure way of deliverance
f...
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i.e. Either shall be speedily cut off ere they can have a child by
that incestuous conjunction, that the remembrance of the fact may be
blotted out: or, if this seem a less crime than most of the form...
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Leviticus 20:20 man H376 lies H7901 (H8799) wife H1733 uncovered H1540
(H8765) uncles H1730 nakedness H6172 bea
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LESSER PENALTIES (LEVITICUS 20:19).
Three examples are now given of slightly lesser crimes, still
forbidden but not punishable with death.
Leviticus 20:19
“And you shall not uncover the nakedness of...
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CONTENTS: Further laws on relationship and walk of God's people.
CHARACTERS: God, Moses.
CONCLUSION: God has distinguished His people from all others by a holy
covenant with them through Christ, the...
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Leviticus 20:2. _Molech._ See on Leviticus 18:21.
Leviticus 20:3. _I will cut him off._ Ahaz gave his son to Molech, and
the Lord afflicted his reign with miseries....
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_He shall surely be put to death._
PENAL SANCTIONS
This chapter, directly or indirectly, casts no little light on some
most fundamental and practical questions regarding the administration
of justice...
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LEVITICUS—NOTE ON LEVITICUS 20:10 This section includes the
punishments for each of the sexual activities prohibited in ch.
Leviticus 18:1: capital punishment ...
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Social and Moral Crimes
SUGGESTIVE READINGS
Leviticus 20:2.—Again thou shalt say to the children of Israel.
These denunclations of sin (already denounced in ch. 18.) are to be
_repeated_ in the heari...
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EXPOSITION
The subject of Leviticus 18:1, is resumed in this chapter; but that
which was before considered as sin only is now regarded as crime, and
penalties are attached according to the heinousness...
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Chapter twenty, now God begins to get a little heavier. In chapter
twenty God goes over some of the things He dealt with in chapter
eighteen, only in chapter twenty telling that the violators of these...
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Jeremiah 22:30; Job 18:19; Leviticus 18:14; Luke 1:25; Luke 1:7;...
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They shall die childless — Either shall be speedily cut off ere they
can have a child by that incestuous conjunction; if this seem a less
crime than most of the former incestuous mixtures, and therefo...