Leviticus 18:19

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17 You shall not uncover the nakedness of a woman and her ^adaughter, nor shall you take her son’s daughter or her daughter’s daughter, to uncover her nakedness. They are near of kin to her. It is wickedness.

18 Nor shall you take a woman ^aas a rival to her sister, to uncover her nakedness while the other is alive.

19 ‘Also you shall not approach a woman to uncover her nakedness as ^along as she is in her ^bcustomary impurity.

20 ^aMoreover you shall not lie carnally with your ^bneighbor’s wife, to defile yourself with her.

21 And you shall not let any of your descendants ^apass through ^bthe fire to ^cMolech, nor shall you profane the name of your God: I am the Lord.

22 You shall not lie with ^aa male as with a woman. It is an abomination.

23 Nor shall you mate with any ^aanimal, to defile yourself with it. Nor shall any woman stand before an animal to mate with it. It is perversion.

24 ^a‘Do not defile yourselves with any of these things; ^bfor by all these the nations are defiled, which I am casting out before you.

25 For ^athe land is defiled; therefore I ^bvisit the punishment of its iniquity upon it, and the land ^cvomits out its inhabitants.

Commentaries:

Matthew Henry

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Leviticus 18:1-30

Unlawful marriages and fleshly lusts.

- Here is a law against all conformity to the corrupt usages of the heathen. Also laws against incest, against brutal lusts, and barbarous idolatries; and the enforcement of these laws from the ruin of the Canaanites. God here gives moral precepts. Close and constant adherence to God's ordinances is the most effectual preservative from gross sin. The grace of God only will secure us; that grace is to be expected only in the use of the means of grace. Nor does He ever leave any to their hearts' lusts, till they have left him and his services.

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