26Ye shall therefore keep my statutes and my judgments, and shall not commit any of these abominations; neither any of your own nation, nor any stranger that sojourneth among you:
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Ye shall therefore keep my statutes, and my judgments: which if a man do, he shall live in them: I am the LORD.
What thing soever I command you, observe to do it: thou shalt not add thereto, nor diminish from it.
And gave them the lands of the heathen: and they inherited the labour of the people; …
But that on the good ground are they, which in an honest and good heart, having heard the word, keep it, and bring forth fruit with patience.
If ye love me, keep my commandments.
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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