3After the doings of the land of Egypt, wherein ye dwelt, shall ye not do: and after the doings of the land of Canaan, whither I bring you, shall ye not do: neither shall ye walk in their ordinances.
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Matthew Henry
(vv. 1-5)After divers ceremonial institutions, God here returns to the enforcement of moral precepts. The former are still of use to us as types, the latter still binding as laws. We have here, 1. The sacred authority by which these laws are enacted: I am the Lord your God ( Lev. 18:1 , 4 , 30 ), and I am the Lord , Lev. 18:5 , 6 , 21 . “The Lord, who has a right to rule all; your God, who has a peculiar r...
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