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Leviticus 19
37 verses with commentary
Laws of Holiness and Justice
And the LORD spake unto Moses, saying,
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<strong>And the LORD spake unto Moses, saying,</strong><br><br>This verse falls within the section on <strong>Various Laws of Holiness</strong>. Wide-ranging ethical and ceremonial laws, including the command to 'love your neighbor as yourself' (19:18).<br><br><br>Every sacrifice and ritual in Leviticus points forward to Jesus Christ, who fulfills the entire sacrificial system as both perfect sacr...
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XIX.
(1) **And the Lord spake unto Moses.**—The prohibitions in the preceding chapter, which are designed to regulate the moral conduct of relations and connections towards each other in their family circles, are now followed by precepts which affect the Israelite’s life in all its bearings, both towards God and man. Hence the authorities during the second Temple regarded it as “embodying the Deca...
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--There are some ceremonial precepts in this chapter, but most of these precepts are binding on us, for they are explanations of the ten commandments. It is required that Israel be a holy people, because the God of Israel is a holy God, ver. #(2). To teach real separation from the world and the flesh, and entire devotedness to God. This is now the law of Christ; may the Lord...
Read full commentary →Speak unto all the congregation of the children of Israel, and say unto them, Ye shall be holy: for I the LORD your God am holy.
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<strong>Speak unto all the congregation of the children of Israel, and say unto them, Ye shall be holy: for I the LORD your God am holy.</strong><br><br>This verse falls within the section on <strong>Various Laws of Holiness</strong>. Wide-ranging ethical and ceremonial laws, including the command to 'love your neighbor as yourself' (19:18).<br><br>The central theme of Leviticus is God's holiness ...
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(2) **Speak unto all the congregation of the children of Israel.**—The importance which the Lawgiver Himself attaches to this epitome of the whole Law, as this section is called, may be seen from the fact that God commands Moses to address these precepts “to all *the congregation *of the children of Israel—a phrase which occurs nowhere else in Leviticus in this formula, and which is only to be fou...
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--There are some ceremonial precepts in this chapter, but most of these precepts are binding on us, for they are explanations of the ten commandments. It is required that Israel be a holy people, because the God of Israel is a holy God, ver. #(2). To teach real separation from the world and the flesh, and entire devotedness to God. This is now the law of Christ; may the Lord...
Read full commentary →Ye shall fear every man his mother, and his father, and keep my sabbaths: I am the LORD your God.
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<strong>Ye shall fear every man his mother, and his father, and keep my sabbaths: I am the LORD your God.</strong><br><br>This verse falls within the section on <strong>Various Laws of Holiness</strong>. Wide-ranging ethical and ceremonial laws, including the command to 'love your neighbor as yourself' (19:18).<br><br><br>What Leviticus portrayed through types and shadows, Christ fulfilled in real...
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(3) **Ye shall fear every man his mother, and his father.**—The first means to attain to the holiness which is to make the Israelite reflect the holiness of God, is uniformly to reverence his parents. Thus the group of precepts contained in this chapter opens with the fifth commandment in the Decalogue (Exodus 20:12), or, as the Apostle calls it, the first commandment with promise (Ephesians 6:2)....
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--There are some ceremonial precepts in this chapter, but most of these precepts are binding on us, for they are explanations of the ten commandments. It is required that Israel be a holy people, because the God of Israel is a holy God, ver. #(2). To teach real separation from the world and the flesh, and entire devotedness to God. This is now the law of Christ; may the Lord...
Read full commentary →Turn ye not unto idols, nor make to yourselves molten gods: I am the LORD your God.
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<strong>Turn ye not unto idols, nor make to yourselves molten gods: I am the LORD your God.</strong><br><br>This verse falls within the section on <strong>Various Laws of Holiness</strong>. Wide-ranging ethical and ceremonial laws, including the command to 'love your neighbor as yourself' (19:18).<br><br><br>Hebrews 9-10 explains how Christ's once-for-all sacrifice supersedes the repeated Levitica...
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(4) **Turn ye not unto idols.**—As the Lord is their God, and there is no other God besides Him, the Israelites must never turn their affections nor address prayers or enquiries to idols. This part of the verse therefore corresponds with the first commandment of the Decalogue (Exodus 20:3). The expression here rendered “idols,” which, apart from the Prophets and Hagiographa, only occurs once more ...
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--There are some ceremonial precepts in this chapter, but most of these precepts are binding on us, for they are explanations of the ten commandments. It is required that Israel be a holy people, because the God of Israel is a holy God, ver. #(2). To teach real separation from the world and the flesh, and entire devotedness to God. This is now the law of Christ; may the Lord...
Read full commentary →And if ye offer a sacrifice of peace offerings unto the LORD, ye shall offer it at your own will.
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<strong>And if ye offer a sacrifice of peace offerings unto the LORD, ye shall offer it at your own will.</strong><br><br>This verse falls within the section on <strong>Various Laws of Holiness</strong>. Wide-ranging ethical and ceremonial laws, including the command to 'love your neighbor as yourself' (19:18).<br><br>The five main offerings (burnt, grain, peace, sin, and guilt) addressed differen...
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(5) **And if ye offer a sacrifice.**—From Leviticus 17:3-7, it will be seen that the Israelites were in the habit of sacrificing to idols the animals intended for private consumption, and that this practice gave rise to the enactment that when any of the three kinds of quadrupeds are to be slaughtered for daily meat, they should first be devoted to God as peace-offerings. Hence the transition here...
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laws.
--There are some ceremonial precepts in this chapter, but most of these precepts are binding on us, for they are explanations of the ten commandments. It is required that Israel be a holy people, because the God of Israel is a holy God, ver. #(2). To teach real separation from the world and the flesh, and entire devotedness to God. This is now the law of Christ; may the Lord...
Read full commentary →It shall be eaten the same day ye offer it, and on the morrow: and if ought remain until the third day, it shall be burnt in the fire.
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<strong>It shall be eaten the same day ye offer it, and on the morrow: and if ought remain until the third day, it shall be burnt in the fire.</strong><br><br>This verse falls within the section on <strong>Various Laws of Holiness</strong>. Wide-ranging ethical and ceremonial laws, including the command to 'love your neighbor as yourself' (19:18).<br><br><br>The holiness demanded in Leviticus beco...
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(6) **It shall be eaten the same day . . . and on the morrow.**—The fact that the flesh of the animal might be eaten both on the day on which it was offered and on the following day, according to the authorities during the second Temple, shows that the second class of peace-offering is here meant, described in Leviticus 8:16, since the flesh of the first class of peace-offerings had to be eaten on...
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**9. what saddle ... he rideth upon that hath the issue shall be unclean--**(See on Ge 31:34).
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--There are some ceremonial precepts in this chapter, but most of these precepts are binding on us, for they are explanations of the ten commandments. It is required that Israel be a holy people, because the God of Israel is a holy God, ver. #(2). To teach real separation from the world and the flesh, and entire devotedness to God. This is now the law of Christ; may the Lord...
Read full commentary →And if it be eaten at all on the third day, it is abominable; it shall not be accepted.
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<strong>And if it be eaten at all on the third day, it is abominable; it shall not be accepted.</strong><br><br>This verse falls within the section on <strong>Various Laws of Holiness</strong>. Wide-ranging ethical and ceremonial laws, including the command to 'love your neighbor as yourself' (19:18).<br><br><br>The New Testament reveals that Christ's sacrifice accomplishes what the Levitical syst...
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(7) **If it be eaten at all on the third day.**—See Leviticus 7:18.
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--There are some ceremonial precepts in this chapter, but most of these precepts are binding on us, for they are explanations of the ten commandments. It is required that Israel be a holy people, because the God of Israel is a holy God, ver. #(2). To teach real separation from the world and the flesh, and entire devotedness to God. This is now the law of Christ; may the Lord...
Read full commentary →Therefore every one that eateth it shall bear his iniquity, because he hath profaned the hallowed thing of the LORD: and that soul shall be cut off from among his people.
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<strong>Therefore every one that eateth it shall bear his iniquity, because he hath profaned the hallowed thing of the LORD: and that soul shall be cut off from among his people.</strong><br><br>This verse falls within the section on <strong>Various Laws of Holiness</strong>. Wide-ranging ethical and ceremonial laws, including the command to 'love your neighbor as yourself' (19:18).<br><br><br>The...
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(8) **Therefore every one that eateth it.**—See Leviticus 7:18-20.
**That soul shall be cut off from among his people.**—Better, *That soul shall be cut off from his people, *as the Authorised Version renders it in four out of the six instances (see Leviticus 7:20-21; Leviticus 7:25; Leviticus 7:27) in which this phrase occurs in the Book of Leviticus. When so important a legal formula, threatenin...
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--There are some ceremonial precepts in this chapter, but most of these precepts are binding on us, for they are explanations of the ten commandments. It is required that Israel be a holy people, because the God of Israel is a holy God, ver. #(2). To teach real separation from the world and the flesh, and entire devotedness to God. This is now the law of Christ; may the Lord...
Read full commentary →And when ye reap the harvest of your land, thou shalt not wholly reap the corners of thy field, neither shalt thou gather the gleanings of thy harvest.
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<strong>And when ye reap the harvest of your land, thou shalt not wholly reap the corners of thy field, neither shalt thou gather the gleanings of thy harvest.</strong><br><br>This verse falls within the section on <strong>Various Laws of Holiness</strong>. Wide-ranging ethical and ceremonial laws, including the command to 'love your neighbor as yourself' (19:18).<br><br><br>The access to God's pr...
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(9) **And when ye reap.**—Benevolent consideration for the poor is another means whereby the Israelite is to attain to that holiness which will enable him to reflect the holiness of God. As the Lord is merciful to all, and provides for the wants of every living creature (Psalm 145:15-16), the Israelite, too, is to regard the wants of the needy. By this injunction the Law moreover establishes the l...
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**12. the vessel of earth, that he toucheth which hath the issue, shall be broken--**It is thought that the pottery of the Israelites, like the earthenware jars in which the Egyptians kept their water, was unglazed and consequently porous, and that it was its porousness which, rendering it extremely liable to imbibe small particles of impure matter, was the reason why the vessel touched by an uncl...
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--There are some ceremonial precepts in this chapter, but most of these precepts are binding on us, for they are explanations of the ten commandments. It is required that Israel be a holy people, because the God of Israel is a holy God, ver. #(2). To teach real separation from the world and the flesh, and entire devotedness to God. This is now the law of Christ; may the Lord...
Read full commentary →And thou shalt not glean thy vineyard, neither shalt thou gather every grape of thy vineyard; thou shalt leave them for the poor and stranger: I am the LORD your God.
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<strong>And thou shalt not glean thy vineyard, neither shalt thou gather every grape of thy vineyard; thou shalt leave them for the poor and stranger: I am the LORD your God.</strong><br><br>This verse falls within the section on <strong>Various Laws of Holiness</strong>. Wide-ranging ethical and ceremonial laws, including the command to 'love your neighbor as yourself' (19:18).<br><br><br>Every s...
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(10) **And thou shalt not glean thy vineyard.**—In gathering in the vine care is to be taken only to cut off’ the large clusters, but not the *infantas, *as the expression literally denotes, which is here rendered by “glean.” Those branches or twigs which had only one or two grapes on them were to be left to the poor.
**Neither shalt thou gather every grape.**—Better, *Nor shalt thou gather the sc...
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**13-14. then he shall number to himself seven days for his cleansing--**Like a leprous person he underwent a week's probation, to make sure he was completely healed. Then with the sacrifices prescribed, the priest made an atonement for him, that is, offered the oblations necessary for the removal of his ceremonial defilement, as well as the typical pardon of his sins.
Matthew Henry’s Concise Commentary
Chapter 19
laws.
--There are some ceremonial precepts in this chapter, but most of these precepts are binding on us, for they are explanations of the ten commandments. It is required that Israel be a holy people, because the God of Israel is a holy God, ver. #(2). To teach real separation from the world and the flesh, and entire devotedness to God. This is now the law of Christ; may the Lord...
Read full commentary →Ye shall not steal, neither deal falsely, neither lie one to another.
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<strong>Ye shall not steal, neither deal falsely, neither lie one to another.</strong><br><br>This verse falls within the section on <strong>Various Laws of Holiness</strong>. Wide-ranging ethical and ceremonial laws, including the command to 'love your neighbor as yourself' (19:18).<br><br><br>The access to God's presence that Leviticus carefully regulated is now freely available through Christ's...
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(11) **Ye shall not steal.**—This injunction, which forms the eighth commandment of the Decalogue (Exodus 20:15), most probably has here a primary reference to the conduct of the owners of fields and vineyards. They are cautioned that by depriving the poor of his prescribed right to the corner of the fields, and to the gleanings of the harvest and vintage, they commit theft. Hence the Jewish canon...
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**13-14. then he shall number to himself seven days for his cleansing--**Like a leprous person he underwent a week's probation, to make sure he was completely healed. Then with the sacrifices prescribed, the priest made an atonement for him, that is, offered the oblations necessary for the removal of his ceremonial defilement, as well as the typical pardon of his sins.
Matthew Henry’s Concise Commentary
Chapter 19
laws.
--There are some ceremonial precepts in this chapter, but most of these precepts are binding on us, for they are explanations of the ten commandments. It is required that Israel be a holy people, because the God of Israel is a holy God, ver. #(2). To teach real separation from the world and the flesh, and entire devotedness to God. This is now the law of Christ; may the Lord...
Read full commentary →And ye shall not swear by my name falsely, neither shalt thou profane the name of thy God: I am the LORD.
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<strong>And ye shall not swear by my name falsely, neither shalt thou profane the name of thy God: I am the LORD.</strong><br><br>This verse falls within the section on <strong>Various Laws of Holiness</strong>. Wide-ranging ethical and ceremonial laws, including the command to 'love your neighbor as yourself' (19:18).<br><br><br>Every sacrifice and ritual in Leviticus points forward to Jesus Chri...
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(12) **And ye shall not swear.**—This corresponds with the third commandment of the Decalogue (Exodus 20:7).
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--There are some ceremonial precepts in this chapter, but most of these precepts are binding on us, for they are explanations of the ten commandments. It is required that Israel be a holy people, because the God of Israel is a holy God, ver. #(2). To teach real separation from the world and the flesh, and entire devotedness to God. This is now the law of Christ; may the Lord...
Read full commentary →Thou shalt not defraud thy neighbour, neither rob him: the wages of him that is hired shall not abide with thee all night until the morning.
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<strong>Thou shalt not defraud thy neighbour, neither rob him: the wages of him that is hired shall not abide with thee all night until the morning.</strong><br><br>This verse falls within the section on <strong>Various Laws of Holiness</strong>. Wide-ranging ethical and ceremonial laws, including the command to 'love your neighbor as yourself' (19:18).<br><br><br>The holiness demanded in Leviticu...
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(13) **Thou shalt not defraud.**—Here oppression by fraud and oppression by violence are forbidden. It is probably in allusion to this passage that John the Baptist warned the soldiers who came to him: “And he said to them, Do violence to no man, neither accuse any falsely; and be content with your wages” (Luke 3:14).
**The wages of him that is hired.**—From the declaration in the next clause, whi...
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--There are some ceremonial precepts in this chapter, but most of these precepts are binding on us, for they are explanations of the ten commandments. It is required that Israel be a holy people, because the God of Israel is a holy God, ver. #(2). To teach real separation from the world and the flesh, and entire devotedness to God. This is now the law of Christ; may the Lord...
Read full commentary →Thou shalt not curse the deaf, nor put a stumblingblock before the blind, but shalt fear thy God: I am the LORD.
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<strong>Thou shalt not curse the deaf, nor put a stumblingblock before the blind, but shalt fear thy God: I am the LORD.</strong><br><br>This verse falls within the section on <strong>Various Laws of Holiness</strong>. Wide-ranging ethical and ceremonial laws, including the command to 'love your neighbor as yourself' (19:18).<br><br><br>Hebrews 9-10 explains how Christ's once-for-all sacrifice sup...
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(14) **Thou shalt not curse the deaf.**—To revile one who cannot hear, and is therefore unable to vindicate himself, is both inexpressibly mean and wicked. The term deaf also includes the absent, and hence out of hearing (Psalm 38:14-15). According to the administrators of the law during the second Temple, this prohibition was directed against all cursing whatsoever. For, said they, if to curse on...
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--There are some ceremonial precepts in this chapter, but most of these precepts are binding on us, for they are explanations of the ten commandments. It is required that Israel be a holy people, because the God of Israel is a holy God, ver. #(2). To teach real separation from the world and the flesh, and entire devotedness to God. This is now the law of Christ; may the Lord...
Read full commentary →Ye shall do no unrighteousness in judgment: thou shalt not respect the person of the poor, nor honour the person of the mighty: but in righteousness shalt thou judge thy neighbour.
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<strong>Ye shall do no unrighteousness in judgment: thou shalt not respect the person of the poor, nor honour the person of the mighty: but in righteousness shalt thou judge thy neighbour.</strong><br><br>This verse falls within the section on <strong>Various Laws of Holiness</strong>. Wide-ranging ethical and ceremonial laws, including the command to 'love your neighbor as yourself' (19:18).<br><...
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(15) **Do no unrighteousness in judgment.**—That is, the judges are not to abuse the authority vested in them by virtue of their office, by administering what ought to be justice in an arbitrary manner.
**Thou shalt not respect the person of the poor.**—The general statement in the preceding clause is here more minutely defined. The consideration for the infirm enjoined in Leviticus 19:14 is not t...
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--There are some ceremonial precepts in this chapter, but most of these precepts are binding on us, for they are explanations of the ten commandments. It is required that Israel be a holy people, because the God of Israel is a holy God, ver. #(2). To teach real separation from the world and the flesh, and entire devotedness to God. This is now the law of Christ; may the Lord...
Read full commentary →Thou shalt not go up and down as a talebearer among thy people: neither shalt thou stand against the blood of thy neighbour: I am the LORD.
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<strong>Thou shalt not go up and down as a talebearer among thy people: neither shalt thou stand against the blood of thy neighbour: I am the LORD.</strong><br><br>This verse falls within the section on <strong>Various Laws of Holiness</strong>. Wide-ranging ethical and ceremonial laws, including the command to 'love your neighbor as yourself' (19:18).<br><br>Leviticus 17:11 declares 'the life of ...
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(16) **Thou shalt not go up and down as a tale-bearer.**—Better, *Thou shalt not go about slandering, *as the Authorised Version has it in Jeremiah 6:28; Jeremiah 9:4; Ezekiel 22:9, Margin. Whilst giving just evidence in a court of justice is demanded by the law, it prohibits the circulation of slanderous reports about our neighbours. This dangerous habit, which has ruined the character and destro...
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Le 15:19-33. Uncleanness of Women.
**19. if a woman have an issue--**Though this, like the leprosy, might be a natural affection, it was anciently considered contagious and entailed a ceremonial defilement which typified a moral impurity. This ceremonial defilement had to be removed by an appointed method of ceremonial expiation, and the neglect of it subjected any one to the guilt of defiling th...
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--There are some ceremonial precepts in this chapter, but most of these precepts are binding on us, for they are explanations of the ten commandments. It is required that Israel be a holy people, because the God of Israel is a holy God, ver. #(2). To teach real separation from the world and the flesh, and entire devotedness to God. This is now the law of Christ; may the Lord...
Read full commentary →Thou shalt not hate thy brother in thine heart: thou shalt in any wise rebuke thy neighbour, and not suffer sin upon him. and: or, that thou bear not sin for him
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<strong>Thou shalt not hate thy brother in thine heart: thou shalt in any wise rebuke thy neighbour, and not suffer sin upon him.</strong><br><br>This verse falls within the section on <strong>Various Laws of Holiness</strong>. Wide-ranging ethical and ceremonial laws, including the command to 'love your neighbor as yourself' (19:18).<br><br><br>The access to God's presence that Leviticus carefull...
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(17) **Shalt not hate thy brother in thine heart.**—From the outward acts denounced in the preceding verse, the legislator now passes to inward feelings. Whatever wrong our neighbour has inflicted upon us, we are not to harbour hatred against him.
**Thou shalt in any wise rebuke.**—Better, *thou shalt by all means, *or *thou shalt freely rebuke him. *If he has done wrong he is to be reproved, and ...
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--There are some ceremonial precepts in this chapter, but most of these precepts are binding on us, for they are explanations of the ten commandments. It is required that Israel be a holy people, because the God of Israel is a holy God, ver. #(2). To teach real separation from the world and the flesh, and entire devotedness to God. This is now the law of Christ; may the Lord...
Read full commentary →Thou shalt not avenge, nor bear any grudge against the children of thy people, but thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself: I am the LORD.
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<strong>Thou shalt not avenge, nor bear any grudge against the children of thy people, but thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself: I am the LORD.</strong><br><br>This verse falls within the section on <strong>Various Laws of Holiness</strong>. Wide-ranging ethical and ceremonial laws, including the command to 'love your neighbor as yourself' (19:18).<br><br><br>Every sacrifice and ritual in Levi...
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(18) **Thou shalt not avenge.**—As the preceding verse enjoins upon us to reprove the offender, this verse forbids us to avenge the wrong even when the rebuke has proved ineffectual, thus demanding the greatest sacrifice on the part of the injured person. The administrators of the law during the second Temple illustrate what is meant by avenge by the following example. “When a disobliging person w...
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--There are some ceremonial precepts in this chapter, but most of these precepts are binding on us, for they are explanations of the ten commandments. It is required that Israel be a holy people, because the God of Israel is a holy God, ver. #(2). To teach real separation from the world and the flesh, and entire devotedness to God. This is now the law of Christ; may the Lord...
Read full commentary →Ye shall keep my statutes. Thou shalt not let thy cattle gender with a diverse kind: thou shalt not sow thy field with mingled seed: neither shall a garment mingled of linen and woollen come upon thee.
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<strong>Ye shall keep my statutes. Thou shalt not let thy cattle gender with a diverse kind: thou shalt not sow thy field with mingled seed: neither shall a garment mingled of linen and woollen come upon thee.</strong><br><br>This verse falls within the section on <strong>Various Laws of Holiness</strong>. Wide-ranging ethical and ceremonial laws, including the command to 'love your neighbor as yo...
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(19) **Ye shall keep my statutes**—that is, the following ordinances, which though not of the same high moral nature as the precepts laid down in the preceding verses, are yet necessary to attain to holiness. The Holy God has made everything “after its kind” (Genesis 1:11-12; Genesis 1:21; Genesis 1:24-25, &c.), and has thus established a physical distinction in the order of His creation. For man ...
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--There are some ceremonial precepts in this chapter, but most of these precepts are binding on us, for they are explanations of the ten commandments. It is required that Israel be a holy people, because the God of Israel is a holy God, ver. #(2). To teach real separation from the world and the flesh, and entire devotedness to God. This is now the law of Christ; may the Lord...
Read full commentary →And whosoever lieth carnally with a woman, that is a bondmaid, betrothed to an husband, and not at all redeemed, nor freedom given her; she shall be scourged; they shall not be put to death, because she was not free. betrothed: or, abused by any: Heb. reproached by (or, for) man she shall: or, they, etc: Heb. there shall be a scourging
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<strong>And whosoever lieth carnally with a woman, that is a bondmaid, betrothed to an husband, and not at all redeemed, nor freedom given her; she shall be scourged; they shall not be put to death, because she was not free.</strong><br><br>This verse falls within the section on <strong>Various Laws of Holiness</strong>. Wide-ranging ethical and ceremonial laws, including the command to 'love your...
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(20) **And whosoever lieth.**—Better, *If a man lie, *as the same phrase is translated in the Authorised Version, Leviticus 22:14; Leviticus 24:19; Leviticus 25:29; Leviticus 27:14.
**Betrothed to an husband.**—Better, *betrothed to a man. *From the law about the mixed seeds the Lawgiver passes to heterogeneous alliances. The case here legislated for is that of seducing a bondwoman who is espoused...
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Chapter 19
laws.
--There are some ceremonial precepts in this chapter, but most of these precepts are binding on us, for they are explanations of the ten commandments. It is required that Israel be a holy people, because the God of Israel is a holy God, ver. #(2). To teach real separation from the world and the flesh, and entire devotedness to God. This is now the law of Christ; may the Lord...
Read full commentary →And he shall bring his trespass offering unto the LORD, unto the door of the tabernacle of the congregation, even a ram for a trespass offering.
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<strong>And he shall bring his trespass offering unto the LORD, unto the door of the tabernacle of the congregation, even a ram for a trespass offering.</strong><br><br>This verse falls within the section on <strong>Various Laws of Holiness</strong>. Wide-ranging ethical and ceremonial laws, including the command to 'love your neighbor as yourself' (19:18).<br><br>The five main offerings (burnt, g...
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(21) **And he shall bring his trespass offering.**—Unlike the woman, the man had to bring this sacrifice under any circumstances, whether he sinned ignorantly or presumptuously. She was exempted from offering a sacrifice because she was her master’s property, and not being her own, she had no property.
**Unto the door of the tabernacle of the congregation.**—Better, *to the entrance of the tent of...
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Chapter 19
laws.
--There are some ceremonial precepts in this chapter, but most of these precepts are binding on us, for they are explanations of the ten commandments. It is required that Israel be a holy people, because the God of Israel is a holy God, ver. #(2). To teach real separation from the world and the flesh, and entire devotedness to God. This is now the law of Christ; may the Lord...
Read full commentary →And the priest shall make an atonement for him with the ram of the trespass offering before the LORD for his sin which he hath done: and the sin which he hath done shall be forgiven him.
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<strong>And the priest shall make an atonement for him with the ram of the trespass offering before the LORD for his sin which he hath done: and the sin which he hath done shall be forgiven him.</strong><br><br>This verse falls within the section on <strong>Various Laws of Holiness</strong>. Wide-ranging ethical and ceremonial laws, including the command to 'love your neighbor as yourself' (19:18)...
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(22) **And the priest shall make an atonement.**—Having offered the trespass offering according to the prescribed ritual by the priest, the sinner expiated for his sin, and was declared free by the officiating son of Aaron. (See Leviticus 4:20; Leviticus 4:26.)
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Chapter 19
laws.
--There are some ceremonial precepts in this chapter, but most of these precepts are binding on us, for they are explanations of the ten commandments. It is required that Israel be a holy people, because the God of Israel is a holy God, ver. #(2). To teach real separation from the world and the flesh, and entire devotedness to God. This is now the law of Christ; may the Lord...
Read full commentary →And when ye shall come into the land, and shall have planted all manner of trees for food, then ye shall count the fruit thereof as uncircumcised : three years shall it be as uncircumcised unto you: it shall not be eaten of.
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<strong>And when ye shall come into the land, and shall have planted all manner of trees for food, then ye shall count the fruit thereof as uncircumcised: three years shall it be as uncircumcised unto you: it shall not be eaten of.</strong><br><br>This verse falls within the section on <strong>Various Laws of Holiness</strong>. Wide-ranging ethical and ceremonial laws, including the command to 'lo...
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(23) **And when ye shall come.**—Rather, *And when ye be come, *as the Authorised Version renders the same phrase in Leviticus 14:34. This is one of the four instances in Leviticus of a law being given prospectively having no immediate bearing on the condition of the people of Israel (viz., Leviticus 14:34; Leviticus 19:23; Leviticus 23:10; Leviticus 25:2), and though all the four enactments are i...
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Chapter 19
laws.
--There are some ceremonial precepts in this chapter, but most of these precepts are binding on us, for they are explanations of the ten commandments. It is required that Israel be a holy people, because the God of Israel is a holy God, ver. #(2). To teach real separation from the world and the flesh, and entire devotedness to God. This is now the law of Christ; may the Lord...
Read full commentary →But in the fourth year all the fruit thereof shall be holy to praise the LORD withal. holy: Heb. holiness of praises to the LORD
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<strong>But in the fourth year all the fruit thereof shall be holy to praise the LORD withal.</strong><br><br>This verse falls within the section on <strong>Various Laws of Holiness</strong>. Wide-ranging ethical and ceremonial laws, including the command to 'love your neighbor as yourself' (19:18).<br><br>The central theme of Leviticus is God's holiness and the call for His people to be holy. The...
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(24) **But in the fourth year.**—Like the second tithes the fruits of the fourth year were taken up to Jerusalem, and there eaten by the owner, in company with the poor and needy whom he invited to the repast. The owner, however, was also allowed to redeem them. In this case he had to add the fifth part of their value, take up the money to the holy city, and there spend it in a repast to which he ...
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Chapter 19
laws.
--There are some ceremonial precepts in this chapter, but most of these precepts are binding on us, for they are explanations of the ten commandments. It is required that Israel be a holy people, because the God of Israel is a holy God, ver. #(2). To teach real separation from the world and the flesh, and entire devotedness to God. This is now the law of Christ; may the Lord...
Read full commentary →And in the fifth year shall ye eat of the fruit thereof, that it may yield unto you the increase thereof: I am the LORD your God.
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<strong>And in the fifth year shall ye eat of the fruit thereof, that it may yield unto you the increase thereof: I am the LORD your God.</strong><br><br>This verse falls within the section on <strong>Various Laws of Holiness</strong>. Wide-ranging ethical and ceremonial laws, including the command to 'love your neighbor as yourself' (19:18).<br><br><br>Every sacrifice and ritual in Leviticus poin...
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(25) **And in the fifth year.**—It was only in the fifth year that the owner was permitted to eat the fruits without redeeming them.
**That it may yield unto you the increase** **thereof**.—That is, refraining from using the fruits during the first three years, and consecrating to the Lord the fruit of the fourth year in the sacrificial repast, they will realise that hereafter the tree will yield ...
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Chapter 19
laws.
--There are some ceremonial precepts in this chapter, but most of these precepts are binding on us, for they are explanations of the ten commandments. It is required that Israel be a holy people, because the God of Israel is a holy God, ver. #(2). To teach real separation from the world and the flesh, and entire devotedness to God. This is now the law of Christ; may the Lord...
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Ye shall not eat any thing with the blood: neither shall ye use enchantment, nor observe times.
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<strong>Ye shall not eat any thing with the blood: neither shall ye use enchantment, nor observe times.</strong><br><br>This verse falls within the section on <strong>Various Laws of Holiness</strong>. Wide-ranging ethical and ceremonial laws, including the command to 'love your neighbor as yourself' (19:18).<br><br>Leviticus 17:11 declares 'the life of the flesh is in the blood,' establishing blo...
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(26) **Ye shall not eat any thing with the blood.**—According to the administrators of the law during the second Temple, there are no less than five different things forbidden here. It prohibits (1) eating the flesh of a legally slaughtered animal as long as its life is not quite gone, or whilst the flesh is still trembling; (2) eating the flesh of sacrificial animals whilst the blood is still in ...
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Chapter 19
laws.
--There are some ceremonial precepts in this chapter, but most of these precepts are binding on us, for they are explanations of the ten commandments. It is required that Israel be a holy people, because the God of Israel is a holy God, ver. #(2). To teach real separation from the world and the flesh, and entire devotedness to God. This is now the law of Christ; may the Lord...
Read full commentary →Ye shall not round the corners of your heads, neither shalt thou mar the corners of thy beard.
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<strong>Ye shall not round the corners of your heads, neither shalt thou mar the corners of thy beard.</strong><br><br>This verse falls within the section on <strong>Various Laws of Holiness</strong>. Wide-ranging ethical and ceremonial laws, including the command to 'love your neighbor as yourself' (19:18).<br><br><br>The New Testament reveals that Christ's sacrifice accomplishes what the Levitic...
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(27) **Round the corners of your heads.**—That is, they are not to shave off the hair around the temples and behind the ears, so as to leave the head bald except a dish-like tuft upon the crown, thus imparting to their heads the form of a hemisphere. This was done by the Arabs, and other worshippers of the god Orotal. Hence the Arabs are ironically called “those with the corner of their hair polle...
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Chapter 19
laws.
--There are some ceremonial precepts in this chapter, but most of these precepts are binding on us, for they are explanations of the ten commandments. It is required that Israel be a holy people, because the God of Israel is a holy God, ver. #(2). To teach real separation from the world and the flesh, and entire devotedness to God. This is now the law of Christ; may the Lord...
Read full commentary →Ye shall not make any cuttings in your flesh for the dead, nor print any marks upon you: I am the LORD.
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<strong>Ye shall not make any cuttings in your flesh for the dead, nor print any marks upon you: I am the LORD.</strong><br><br>This verse falls within the section on <strong>Various Laws of Holiness</strong>. Wide-ranging ethical and ceremonial laws, including the command to 'love your neighbor as yourself' (19:18).<br><br><br>The access to God's presence that Leviticus carefully regulated is now...
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(28) **Cuttings in your flesh for the dead.**—It was not only the custom for mourners to let their hair grow long and wear it in a disorderly manner (see Leviticus 10:6), but the bereaved in the East to this day make cuts and incisions in their bodies in mourning for the dead. The Israelite, however, who is created in the image of God, and who is to be as holy as the Lord is holy, must not thus di...
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**31-33. Thus shall ye separate the children of Israel from their uncleanness--**The divine wisdom was manifested in inspiring the Israelites with a profound reverence for holy things; and nothing was more suited to this purpose than to debar from the tabernacle all who were polluted by any kind of uncleanness, ceremonial as well as natural, mental as well as physical. The better to mark out that ...
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Chapter 19
laws.
--There are some ceremonial precepts in this chapter, but most of these precepts are binding on us, for they are explanations of the ten commandments. It is required that Israel be a holy people, because the God of Israel is a holy God, ver. #(2). To teach real separation from the world and the flesh, and entire devotedness to God. This is now the law of Christ; may the Lord...
Read full commentary →Do not prostitute thy daughter, to cause her to be a whore; lest the land fall to whoredom, and the land become full of wickedness. prostitute: Heb. profane
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<strong>Do not prostitute thy daughter, to cause her to be a whore; lest the land fall to whoredom, and the land become full of wickedness.</strong><br><br>This verse falls within the section on <strong>Various Laws of Holiness</strong>. Wide-ranging ethical and ceremonial laws, including the command to 'love your neighbor as yourself' (19:18).<br><br><br>The New Testament reveals that Christ's sa...
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(29) **Do not prostitute thy daughter**.—This refers to the degrading worship of Astarte which prevailed in ancient times, and which at times also broke out among the Jews.
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**31-33. Thus shall ye separate the children of Israel from their uncleanness--**The divine wisdom was manifested in inspiring the Israelites with a profound reverence for holy things; and nothing was more suited to this purpose than to debar from the tabernacle all who were polluted by any kind of uncleanness, ceremonial as well as natural, mental as well as physical. The better to mark out that ...
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Chapter 19
laws.
--There are some ceremonial precepts in this chapter, but most of these precepts are binding on us, for they are explanations of the ten commandments. It is required that Israel be a holy people, because the God of Israel is a holy God, ver. #(2). To teach real separation from the world and the flesh, and entire devotedness to God. This is now the law of Christ; may the Lord...
Read full commentary →Ye shall keep my sabbaths, and reverence my sanctuary: I am the LORD.
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<strong>Ye shall keep my sabbaths, and reverence my sanctuary: I am the LORD.</strong><br><br>This verse falls within the section on <strong>Various Laws of Holiness</strong>. Wide-ranging ethical and ceremonial laws, including the command to 'love your neighbor as yourself' (19:18).<br><br><br>The New Testament reveals that Christ's sacrifice accomplishes what the Levitical system could only symb...
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(30) **Ye shall keep my sabbaths.**—The greatest safeguard against the above-named abomination, and the surest way to fulfil the Divine commands, is by keeping the Sabbath day, and following the instruction imparted on this day of rest. (See Leviticus 19:3.)
**And reverence my sanctuary**—which the Israelites frequented on the Sabbath. (See Exodus 35:3.) The way to reverence the sanctuary, accordi...
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**31-33. Thus shall ye separate the children of Israel from their uncleanness--**The divine wisdom was manifested in inspiring the Israelites with a profound reverence for holy things; and nothing was more suited to this purpose than to debar from the tabernacle all who were polluted by any kind of uncleanness, ceremonial as well as natural, mental as well as physical. The better to mark out that ...
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Chapter 19
laws.
--There are some ceremonial precepts in this chapter, but most of these precepts are binding on us, for they are explanations of the ten commandments. It is required that Israel be a holy people, because the God of Israel is a holy God, ver. #(2). To teach real separation from the world and the flesh, and entire devotedness to God. This is now the law of Christ; may the Lord...
Read full commentary →Regard not them that have familiar spirits, neither seek after wizards, to be defiled by them: I am the LORD your God.
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<strong>Regard not them that have familiar spirits, neither seek after wizards, to be defiled by them: I am the LORD your God.</strong><br><br>This verse falls within the section on <strong>Various Laws of Holiness</strong>. Wide-ranging ethical and ceremonial laws, including the command to 'love your neighbor as yourself' (19:18).<br><br><br>The access to God's presence that Leviticus carefully r...
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(31) **Regard not.**—Better, *Turn ye not unto, *as the Authorised Version renders this very phrase in Leviticus 19:4.
**Them that have familiar spirits.**—This phrase represents the single word *oboth *in the original, and the translators of our Authorised Version by adopting it implied that those who practised this craft were supposed to be attended by an invisible spirit who was subject to thei...
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Chapter 19
laws.
--There are some ceremonial precepts in this chapter, but most of these precepts are binding on us, for they are explanations of the ten commandments. It is required that Israel be a holy people, because the God of Israel is a holy God, ver. #(2). To teach real separation from the world and the flesh, and entire devotedness to God. This is now the law of Christ; may the Lord...
Read full commentary →Thou shalt rise up before the hoary head, and honour the face of the old man, and fear thy God: I am the LORD.
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<strong>Thou shalt rise up before the hoary head, and honour the face of the old man, and fear thy God: I am the LORD.</strong><br><br>This verse falls within the section on <strong>Various Laws of Holiness</strong>. Wide-ranging ethical and ceremonial laws, including the command to 'love your neighbor as yourself' (19:18).<br><br><br>The holiness demanded in Leviticus becomes possible through Chr...
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(32) **Rise up before the hoary head.**—But though no regard is to be paid to these soothsayers and cunning men, the greatest reverence is to be shown to the aged, for “with the old is wisdom, and in length of days understanding” (Job 12:12; Job 32:7, &c.). If we, therefore, are to attain to the holiness which, as it is set forth in the beginning of this chapter, is to reflect the holiness of God,...
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CHAPTER 16 Le 16:1-34. How the High Priest Must Enter into the Holy Place.
**1. after the death of the two sons of Aaron, when they offered before the Lord, and died--**It is thought by some that this chapter has been transposed out of its right place in the sacred record, which was immediately after the narrative of the deaths of Nadab and Abihu [Le 10:1-20]. That appalling catastrophe must have...
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Chapter 19
laws.
--There are some ceremonial precepts in this chapter, but most of these precepts are binding on us, for they are explanations of the ten commandments. It is required that Israel be a holy people, because the God of Israel is a holy God, ver. #(2). To teach real separation from the world and the flesh, and entire devotedness to God. This is now the law of Christ; may the Lord...
Read full commentary →And if a stranger sojourn with thee in your land, ye shall not vex him. vex: or, oppress
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<strong>And if a stranger sojourn with thee in your land, ye shall not vex him.</strong><br><br>This verse falls within the section on <strong>Various Laws of Holiness</strong>. Wide-ranging ethical and ceremonial laws, including the command to 'love your neighbor as yourself' (19:18).<br><br><br>The access to God's presence that Leviticus carefully regulated is now freely available through Christ...
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(33) **And if a stranger sojourn with thee.**—The stranger, for whose benefit the legislators enacted so many humane and benign laws, and with regard to whom the book of Leviticus has laid down so many precepts, is one of non-Jewish origin, but who had joined the Jewish faith. He had, therefore, to undergo the rite of circumcision; he had to fast on the great Day of Atonement (Leviticus 16:29); he...
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**2. Speak unto Aaron thy brother, that he come not at all times into the holy place within the veil, &c.--**Common priests went every day into the part of the sanctuary without the veil to burn incense on the golden altar. But none except the high priest was allowed to enter within the veil, and that only once a year with the greatest care and solemnity. This arrangement was evidently designe...
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Chapter 19
laws.
--There are some ceremonial precepts in this chapter, but most of these precepts are binding on us, for they are explanations of the ten commandments. It is required that Israel be a holy people, because the God of Israel is a holy God, ver. #(2). To teach real separation from the world and the flesh, and entire devotedness to God. This is now the law of Christ; may the Lord...
Read full commentary →But the stranger that dwelleth with you shall be unto you as one born among you, and thou shalt love him as thyself; for ye were strangers in the land of Egypt: I am the LORD your God.
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<strong>But the stranger that dwelleth with you shall be unto you as one born among you, and thou shalt love him as thyself; for ye were strangers in the land of Egypt: I am the LORD your God.</strong><br><br>This verse falls within the section on <strong>Various Laws of Holiness</strong>. Wide-ranging ethical and ceremonial laws, including the command to 'love your neighbor as yourself' (19:18).<...
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(34)**But the stranger that dwelleth.—**Better, *The stranger that sojourneth. *The word “but” is not in the original, and its insertion mars the flow of the passage, whilst the expression rendered in the Authorised Version by “dwelleth” is the same which is translated “sojourn in the preceding verse. This stranger is in every respect to be treated as any other member of the commonwealth, and as a...
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**3-4. Thus shall Aaron come into the holy place--**As the duties of the great day of atonement led to the nearest and most solemn approach to God, the directions as to the proper course to be followed were minute and special.
**with a young bullock ... and a ram--**These victims he brought alive, but they were not offered in sacrifice till he had gone through the ceremonies described between Le...
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Chapter 19
laws.
--There are some ceremonial precepts in this chapter, but most of these precepts are binding on us, for they are explanations of the ten commandments. It is required that Israel be a holy people, because the God of Israel is a holy God, ver. #(2). To teach real separation from the world and the flesh, and entire devotedness to God. This is now the law of Christ; may the Lord...
Read full commentary →Ye shall do no unrighteousness in judgment, in meteyard, in weight, or in measure.
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<strong>Ye shall do no unrighteousness in judgment, in meteyard, in weight, or in measure.</strong><br><br>This verse falls within the section on <strong>Various Laws of Holiness</strong>. Wide-ranging ethical and ceremonial laws, including the command to 'love your neighbor as yourself' (19:18).<br><br><br>Hebrews 9-10 explains how Christ's once-for-all sacrifice supersedes the repeated Levitical...
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(35) **Ye shall do no unrighteousness** **in judgment.**—It will be seen that the Lawgiver uses here exactly the same phrase with regard to meting out right measure which he used in connection with the administration of justice in Leviticus 19:15. He, therefore, who declares that a false measure is a legal measure is, according to this law, as much a corrupt judge, and defrauds the people by false...
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**3-4. Thus shall Aaron come into the holy place--**As the duties of the great day of atonement led to the nearest and most solemn approach to God, the directions as to the proper course to be followed were minute and special.
**with a young bullock ... and a ram--**These victims he brought alive, but they were not offered in sacrifice till he had gone through the ceremonies described between Le...
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Chapter 19
laws.
--There are some ceremonial precepts in this chapter, but most of these precepts are binding on us, for they are explanations of the ten commandments. It is required that Israel be a holy people, because the God of Israel is a holy God, ver. #(2). To teach real separation from the world and the flesh, and entire devotedness to God. This is now the law of Christ; may the Lord...
Read full commentary →Just balances, just weights, a just ephah, and a just hin, shall ye have: I am the LORD your God, which brought you out of the land of Egypt. weights: Heb. stones
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<strong>Just balances, just weights, a just ephah, and a just hin, shall ye have: I am the LORD your God, which brought you out of the land of Egypt.</strong><br><br>This verse falls within the section on <strong>Various Laws of Holiness</strong>. Wide-ranging ethical and ceremonial laws, including the command to 'love your neighbor as yourself' (19:18).<br><br><br>Every sacrifice and ritual in Le...
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(36) **Just balances, just weights.**—That is, they were to be the same for buying as for selling.
**Just ephah.**—The ephah is the dry measure, and contained ten omers. (See Leviticus 14:10.) It is the same measure as the *bath *is for liquids.
**A just hin.**—The hin, which was a measure for liquids, contained as much as seventy-two hen’s eggs. These two measures are here used as representative,...
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**5-10. shall take of the congregation ... two kids of the goats ... and one ram--**The sacrifices were to be offered by the high priest, respectively for himself and the other priests, as well as for the people. The bullock (Le 16:3) and the goats were for sin offerings and the rams for burnt offerings. The goats, though used in different ways, constituted only one offering. They were both presen...
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Chapter 19
laws.
--There are some ceremonial precepts in this chapter, but most of these precepts are binding on us, for they are explanations of the ten commandments. It is required that Israel be a holy people, because the God of Israel is a holy God, ver. #(2). To teach real separation from the world and the flesh, and entire devotedness to God. This is now the law of Christ; may the Lord...
Read full commentary →Therefore shall ye observe all my statutes, and all my judgments, and do them: I am the LORD.
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<strong>Therefore shall ye observe all my statutes, and all my judgments, and do them: I am the LORD.</strong><br><br>This verse falls within the section on <strong>Various Laws of Holiness</strong>. Wide-ranging ethical and ceremonial laws, including the command to 'love your neighbor as yourself' (19:18).<br><br><br>The holiness demanded in Leviticus becomes possible through Christ, who both sat...
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**5-10. shall take of the congregation ... two kids of the goats ... and one ram--**The sacrifices were to be offered by the high priest, respectively for himself and the other priests, as well as for the people. The bullock (Le 16:3) and the goats were for sin offerings and the rams for burnt offerings. The goats, though used in different ways, constituted only one offering. They were both presen...
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Chapter 19
laws.
--There are some ceremonial precepts in this chapter, but most of these precepts are binding on us, for they are explanations of the ten commandments. It is required that Israel be a holy people, because the God of Israel is a holy God, ver. #(2). To teach real separation from the world and the flesh, and entire devotedness to God. This is now the law of Christ; may the Lord...
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