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Leviticus 20:22 World English Bible (WEB)

22 "'You shall therefore keep all my statutes, and all my ordinances, and do them; that the land, where I am bringing you to dwell, may not vomit you out.

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Leviticus 18:25-28 WEB

The land was defiled: therefore I punished its iniquity, and the land vomitted out her inhabitants. You therefore shall keep my statutes and my ordinances, and shall not do any of these abominations; neither the native-born, nor the stranger who lives as a foreigner among you; (for all these abominations have the men of the land done, that were before you, and the land became defiled); that the land not vomit you out also, when you defile it, as it vomited out the nation that was before you.

Psalms 119:80 WEB

Let my heart be blameless toward your decrees, That I may not be disappointed.

Ezekiel 36:27 WEB

I will put my Spirit within you, and cause you to walk in my statutes, and you shall keep my ordinances, and do them.

Isaiah 26:8-9 WEB

Yes, in the way of your judgments, Yahweh, have we waited for you; to your name, even to your memorial [name], is the desire of our soul. With my soul have I desired you in the night; yes, with my spirit within me will I seek you earnestly: for when your judgments are in the earth, the inhabitants of the world learn righteousness.

Psalms 119:175 WEB

Let my soul live, that I may praise you. Let your ordinances help me.

Psalms 119:171 WEB

Let my lips utter praise, For you teach me your statutes.

Psalms 119:164 WEB

Seven times a day, I praise you, Because of your righteous ordinances.

Psalms 119:160 WEB

All of your words are truth. Every one of your righteous ordinances endures forever.

Psalms 119:145 WEB

I have called with my whole heart. Answer me, Yahweh! I will keep your statutes.

Psalms 119:106 WEB

I have sworn, and have confirmed it, That I will obey your righteous ordinances.

Exodus 21:1 WEB

"Now these are the ordinances which you shall set before them.

Psalms 119:20 WEB

My soul is consumed with longing for your ordinances at all times.

Psalms 105:45 WEB

That they might keep his statutes, And observe his laws. Praise Yah!

Psalms 19:8-11 WEB

Yahweh's precepts are right, rejoicing the heart. Yahweh's commandment is pure, enlightening the eyes. The fear of Yahweh is clean, enduring forever. Yahweh's ordinances are true, and righteous altogether. More to be desired are they than gold, yes, than much fine gold; Sweeter also than honey and the extract of the honeycomb. Moreover by them is your servant warned. In keeping them there is great reward.

Deuteronomy 28:25-26 WEB

Yahweh will cause you to be struck before your enemies; you shall go out one way against them, and shall flee seven ways before them: and you shall be tossed back and forth among all the kingdoms of the earth. Your dead body shall be food to all birds of the sky, and to the animals of the earth; and there shall be none to frighten them away.

Deuteronomy 5:1 WEB

Moses called to all Israel, and said to them, Hear, Israel, the statutes and the ordinances which I speak in your ears this day, that you may learn them, and observe to do them.

Deuteronomy 4:45 WEB

these are the testimonies, and the statutes, and the ordinances, which Moses spoke to the children of Israel, when they came forth out of Egypt,

Leviticus 26:33 WEB

I will scatter you among the nations, and I will draw out the sword after you: and your land will be a desolation, and your cities shall be a waste.

Leviticus 19:37 WEB

You shall observe all my statutes, and all my ordinances, and do them. I am Yahweh.'"

Leviticus 18:4-5 WEB

You shall do my ordinances, and you shall keep my statutes, and walk in them: I am Yahweh your God. You shall therefore keep my statutes and my ordinances; which if a man does, he shall live in them: I am Yahweh.

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.