After the (a) doings of the land of Egypt, wherein ye dwelt, shall ye not do: and after the doings of the land of Canaan, whither I bring you, shall ye not do: neither shall ye walk in their ordinances. (a) You shall preserve yourselves from these abominations following, which the Egyptians and Can... [ Continue Reading ]
Ye shall therefore keep my statutes, and my judgments: which if a man do, he shall live in them: (b) I [am] the LORD. (b) And therefore you ought to serve me alone, as my people.... [ Continue Reading ]
None of you shall approach to any that is near of kin to him, to (c) uncover [their] nakedness: I [am] the LORD. (c) That is, to lie with her, though it be under title of marriage.... [ Continue Reading ]
The nakedness of thy father's (d) wife shalt thou not uncover: it [is] thy father's nakedness. (d) Which is your stepmother.... [ Continue Reading ]
The nakedness of thy (e) sister, the daughter of thy father, or daughter of thy mother, [whether she be] born at home, or born abroad, [even] their nakedness thou shalt not uncover. (e) Either by father or mother, born in marriage or otherwise.... [ Continue Reading ]
The nakedness of thy son's daughter, or of thy daughter's daughter, [even] their nakedness thou shalt not uncover: for theirs [is] thine own (f) nakedness. (f) They are her children whose shame you have uncovered.... [ Continue Reading ]
Thou shalt not uncover the nakedness of thy (g) father's brother, thou shalt not approach to his wife: she [is] thine aunt. (g) Which your uncle discovers.... [ Continue Reading ]
Thou shalt not uncover the nakedness of thy (h) brother's wife: it [is] thy brother's nakedness. (h) Because the idolaters, among whom God's people had dwelt and would dwell, were given to these horrible incests, God charges his own to beware of them.... [ Continue Reading ]
Neither shalt thou take a wife to her sister, to (i) vex [her], to uncover her nakedness, beside the other in her life [time]. (i) By seeing your affection more bent to her sister than to her.... [ Continue Reading ]
Also thou shalt not approach unto a woman to uncover her nakedness, as long as she is put (k) apart for her uncleanness. (k) Or while she has her period.... [ Continue Reading ]
And thou shalt not let any of thy seed pass through [the fire] to (l) Molech, neither shalt thou profane the name of thy God: I [am] the LORD. (l) Which was an idol of the Ammonites, to whom they burned and sacrificed their children, (2 Kings 23:10). This seemed to be the chief and principal of all... [ Continue Reading ]
And the land is defiled: therefore I do (m) visit the iniquity thereof upon it, and the land itself (n) vomiteth out her inhabitants. (m) I will punish the land where such incestuous marriages and pollutions are tolerated. (n) He compares the wicked to evil humours and overeating, which corrupt th... [ Continue Reading ]
That the land spue not you out also, when ye defile it, as it (o) spued out the nations that [were] before you. (o) Both for their wicked marriages, unnatural copulations, idolatry or spiritual whoredom with Molech and such like abominations.... [ Continue Reading ]
For whosoever shall commit any of these abominations, even the souls that commit [them] shall (p) be cut off from among their people. (p) Either by the civil sword or by some plague that God will send upon such.... [ Continue Reading ]