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5Ye shall therefore keep my statutes, and my judgments: which if a man do, he shall live in them: I am the LORD.

Leviticus 18:5

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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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