27(For all these abominations have the men of the land done, which were before you, and the land is defiled;)
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And they were haughty, and committed abomination before me: therefore I took them away as I saw good.
Defile not ye yourselves in any of these things: for in all these the nations are defiled which I cast out before you:
That they teach you not to do after all their abominations, which they have done unto their gods; so should ye sin against the LORD your God.
But he walked in the way of the kings of Israel, yea, and made his son to pass through the fire, according to the abominations of the heathen, whom the LORD cast out from before the children of Israel.
And one hath committed abomination with his neighbour's wife; and another hath lewdly defiled his daughter in law; and another in thee hath humbled his sister, his father's daughter.
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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