Le 18:3
18:3 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 Canaanites use.

Le 18:5
18:5 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.

Le 18:6
18:6 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.

Le 18:8
18:8 The nakedness of thy father's {d} wife shalt thou not
     uncover: it [is] thy father's nakedness.

     (d) Which is your stepmother.

Le 18:9
18:9 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.

Le 18:10
18:10 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.

Le 18:14
18:14 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.

Le 18:16
18:16 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.

Le 18:18
18:18 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.

Le 18:19
18:19 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.

Le 18:21
18:21 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, @2Ki 23:10.
          This seemed to be the chief and principal of all
          idols: and as the Jews write, was of a great stature,
          and hollow within, having seven places or chambers
          within him: one was to receive meal that was offered:
          another turtle doves: the third, a sheep: the fourth,
          a ram: the fifth a calf: the sixth an ox: the seventh
          a child. This idols face was like a calf: his hands
          were ever stretched out to receive gifts: his priests
          were called Chemarims,
          @2Ki 23:5, Ho 10:5, Zep 1:4.

Le 18:25
18:25 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 the stomach, and oppress nature, and
          therefore must be cast out by vomit.

Le 18:28
18:28 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.

Le 18:29
18:29 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.



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