20Moreover thou shalt not lie carnally with thy neighbour's wife, to defile thyself with her.
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Thou shalt not commit adultery.
Ye have heard that it was said by them of old time, Thou shalt not commit adultery: …
And the man that committeth adultery with another man's wife, even he that committeth adultery with his neighbour's wife, the adulterer and the adulteress shall surely be put to death.
Know ye not that the unrighteous shall not inherit the kingdom of God? Be not deceived: neither fornicators, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor effeminate, nor abusers of themselves with mankind,
Marriage is honourable in all, and the bed undefiled: but whoremongers and adulterers God will judge.
Commentary
Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 19-30)Here is, I. A law to preserve the honour of the marriage-bed, that it should not be unseasonably used (Lev. 18:19), nor invaded by an adulterer, Lev. 18:20. II. A law against that which was the most unnatural idolatry, causing their children to pass through the fire to Moloch , Lev. 18:21. Moloch (as some think) was the idol in and by which they worshipped the sun, that great fire of the world; an…
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