30Therefore shall ye keep mine ordinance, that ye commit not any one of these abominable customs, which were committed before you, and that ye defile not yourselves therein: I am the LORD your God.
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And ye shall not walk in the manners of the nation, which I cast out before you: for they committed all these things, and therefore I abhorred them.
When thou art come into the land which the LORD thy God giveth thee, thou shalt not learn to do after the abominations of those nations. …
They shall therefore keep mine ordinance, lest they bear sin for it, and die therefore, if they profane it: I the LORD do sanctify them.
Speak unto the children of Israel, and say unto them, I am the LORD your God. …
Ye 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: …
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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