Leviticus 20:10 - Jamieson, Fausset, and Brown

Leviticus 20:10

8 And you shall keep ^aMy statutes, and perform them: ^bI am the Lord who sanctifies you.

9 ‘For ^aeveryone who curses his father or his mother shall surely be put to death. He has cursed his father or his mother. ^bHis blood shall be upon him.

10 ^a‘The man who commits adultery with another man’s wife, he who commits adultery with his neighbor’s wife, the adulterer and the adulteress, shall surely be put to death.

11 The man who lies with his ^afather’s wife has uncovered his father’s nakedness; both of them shall surely be put to death. Their blood shall be upon them.

12 If a man lies with his ^adaughter-in-law, both of them shall surely be put to death. They have committed perversion. Their blood shall be upon them.

13 ^aIf a man lies with a male as he lies with a woman, both of them have committed an abomination. They shall surely be put to death. Their blood shall be upon them.

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Leviticus 20:7-19

Sanctify yourselves therefore, and be ye holy—The minute specification of the incestuous and unnatural crimes here enumerated shows their sad prevalence amongst the idolatrous nations around, and the extreme proneness of the Israelites to follow the customs of their neighbors. It is to be understood, that, whenever mention is made that the offender was "to be put to death" without describing the mode, stoning is meant. The only instance of another form of capital punishment occurs in Leviticus 20:14, that of being burnt with fire; and yet it is probable that even here death was first inflicted by stoning, and the body of the criminal afterwards consumed by fire (Joshua 7:15).

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