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Leviticus 20:22 Bible in Basic English (BBE)

22 So then, keep my rules and my decisions and do them, so that the land which I am giving you as your resting-place may not violently send you out again.

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Leviticus 18:25-28 BBE

And the land itself has become unclean; so that I have sent on it the reward of its wrongdoing, and the land itself puts out those who are living in it. So then keep my rules and my decisions, and do not do any of these disgusting things, those of you who are Israelites by birth, or any others who are living with you: (For all these disgusting things were done by the men of this country who were there before you, and the land has been made unclean by them;) So that the land may not put you out from it, when you make it unclean, as it put out the nations which were there before you.

Psalms 119:80 BBE

Let all my heart be given to your orders, so that I may not be put to shame.

Ezekiel 36:27 BBE

And I will put my spirit in you, causing you to be guided by my rules, and you will keep my orders and do them.

Isaiah 26:8-9 BBE

We have been waiting for you, O Lord; the desire of our soul is for the memory of your name. In the night the desire of my soul has been for you; early will my spirit be searching for you; for when your punishments come on the earth, the people of the world will get the knowledge of righteousness.

Psalms 119:175 BBE

Give life to my soul so that it may give you praise; and let your decisions be my support.

Psalms 119:171 BBE

Let my lips be flowing with praise, because you have given me knowledge of your rules.

Psalms 119:164 BBE

Seven times a day do I give you praise, because of your upright decisions.

Psalms 119:160 BBE

Your word is true from the first; and your upright decision is unchanging for ever.

Psalms 119:145 BBE

<KOPH> I have made my prayer with all my heart; give answer to me, O Lord: I will keep your rules.

Psalms 119:106 BBE

I have made an oath and kept it, to be guided by your upright decisions.

Exodus 21:1 BBE

Now these are the laws which you are to put before them.

Psalms 119:20 BBE

My soul is broken with desire for your decisions at all times.

Psalms 105:45 BBE

So that they might keep his orders, and be true to his laws. Give praise to the Lord.

Psalms 19:8-11 BBE

The orders of the Lord are right, making glad the heart: the rule of the Lord is holy, giving light to the eyes. The fear of the Lord is clean, and has no end; the decisions of the Lord are true and full of righteousness. More to be desired are they than gold, even than much shining gold; sweeter than the dropping honey. By them is your servant made conscious of danger, and in keeping them there is great reward.

Deuteronomy 28:25-26 BBE

The Lord will let you be overcome by your haters: you will go out against them one way, and you will go in flight before them seven ways: you will be the cause of fear among all the kingdoms of the earth. Your bodies will be meat for all the birds of the air and the beasts of the earth; there will be no one to send them away.

Deuteronomy 5:1 BBE

And Moses sent for all Israel, and said to them, Give ear, O Israel, to the laws and the decisions which I give you today, and give attention to them so that you may keep and do them.

Deuteronomy 4:45 BBE

These are the rules and the laws and the decisions which Moses gave to the children of Israel after they came out of Egypt;

Leviticus 26:33 BBE

And I will send you out in all directions among the nations, and my sword will be uncovered against you, and your land will be without any living thing, and your towns will be made waste.

Leviticus 19:37 BBE

You are to keep all my rules and my decisions and do them: I am the Lord.

Leviticus 18:4-5 BBE

But you are to be guided by my decisions and keep my rules, and be guided by them: I am the Lord your God. So keep my rules and my decisions, which, if a man does them, will be life to him: I am the Lord.

Commentary on Leviticus 20 Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible


CHAPTER 20

Le 20:1-27. Giving One's Seed to Molech.

2. Whosoever … giveth any of his seed unto Molech—(See on Le 18:21).

the people of the land shall stone him with stones, &c.—Criminals who were condemned to be stoned were led, with their hands bound, without the gates to a small eminence, where was a large stone placed at the bottom. When they had approached within ten cubits of the spot, they were exhorted to confess, that, by faith and repentance, their souls might be saved. When led forward to within four cubits, they were stripped almost naked, and received some stupefying draught, during which the witnesses prepared, by laying aside their outer garments, to carry into execution the capital sentence which the law bound them to do. The criminal, being placed on the edge of the precipice, was then pushed backwards, so that he fell down the perpendicular height on the stone lying below: if not killed by the fall, the second witness dashed a large stone down upon his breast, and then the "people of the land," who were by-standers, rushed forward, and with stones completed the work of death (Mt 21:44; Ac 7:58).

4. If the people of the land do any ways hide their eyes from the man, &c.—that is, connive at their countrymen practising the horrid rites of Molech. Awful was it that any Hebrew parents could so violate their national covenant, and no wonder that God denounced the severest penalties against them and their families.

7-19. Sanctify yourselves therefore, and be ye holy—The minute specification of the incestuous and unnatural crimes here enumerated shows their sad prevalence amongst the idolatrous nations around, and the extreme proneness of the Israelites to follow the customs of their neighbors. It is to be understood, that, whenever mention is made that the offender was "to be put to death" without describing the mode, stoning is meant. The only instance of another form of capital punishment occurs in Le 20:14, that of being burnt with fire; and yet it is probable that even here death was first inflicted by stoning, and the body of the criminal afterwards consumed by fire (Jos 7:15).

20. they shall die childless—Either by the judgment of God they shall have no children, or their spurious offspring shall be denied by human authority the ordinary privileges of children in Israel.

24. I … have separated you from other people—Their selection from the rest of the nations was for the all-important end of preserving the knowledge and worship of the true God amid the universal apostasy; and as the distinction of meats was one great means of completing that separation, the law about making a difference between clean and unclean beasts is here repeated with emphatic solemnity.