“ A man shall not take his father's wife, nor discover his father's skirt. ”
A man shall not (l) take his father's wife, nor discover his father's skirt. (l) He shall not lie with his stepmother, meaning by this all other variations forbidden in (Lev. 18:1-30).
Sins against Pure Marriages. Deuteronomy 22:14 . tokens of virginity: their absence is now known not to be necessarily a proof of pre-nuptial unchastity, though the ancient peoples held the contr...
skirt. Put by Figure of speech Euphemy (App-6), for nakedness. Compare Leviticus 18:7 ; Leviticus 18:8 ; Leviticus 20:11 .
30. A man shall not take his father’s wife. Since Moses does not here refer to any other kinds of incest, but speaks only of that with a step-mother, it is probable that, what he had more ful...
A man shall not take his father's wife, nor discover his father's skirt. A man shall not take his father's wife - This is to be understood as referring to the case of a stepmother. A man in his old a...
Ver. 30. Nor discover his father's skirt — A modest phrase for unlawful commerce. See the places referred to in the margins of our Bibles.
Laws regarding Lost Property, Distinction of Sex in Apparel, and Chastity 1-4. Law of Lost Property: see Exodus 23:4 and note.
LAWS OF PURITY (CHASTITY AND MARRIAGE) IN dealing with the ten commandments it has been already shown that, though these great statements of religious and moral truth were to some extent inadequat...
Here we have the record of the laws conditioning life in love and neighborliness. Every man was enjoined to take care of his brother's lost things if he found them; and he was also to help the hurt a...
Some of the laws in this book of Leviticus, were before given: Leviticus 20:10 . The repetition in this place, only serves to intimate their importance. And it is a very solemn consideration, equall...
A man shall not take his father's wife ,.... Not marry her, whether his own mother, or a stepmother; or even, as Aben Ezra thinks, anyone that was deflowered by his father. Jarchi interprets it of h...
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The Punishment of Fornication. B. C. 1451. 13 If any man take a wife, and go in unto h...
Shall not take to wife. So this respects the state, and the next branch speaks of the act only. His father's wife; his mother-in-law. See Leviticus 18:8 , Leviticus 20:11 1 Corinthians 5:1...
Dealing With Sexual Misbehaviour ( Deuteronomy 22:22-30 ). Various aspect of sexual misbehaviour are dealt with in this passage with the most heinous at the beginning and the end. Analysis usin...
CRITICAL NOTES .—The cases stated and provided for in Deuteronomy 22:1-12 seem selected by way of example, and belong, according to our notions, rather to ethics than to law. It in noteworthy that...
Deuteronomy 22:5 . All that do so are abomination to the Lord. The note of Maimonides here is, that men presenting themselves before Venus, appeared partially in female attire; and women presentin...
EXPOSITION REGULATIONS REGARDING CATTLE STRAYED OR THINGS LOST , THE APPAREL OF THE SEXES , THE TAKING OF BIRDS , AND THE CONSTRUCTION OF HOUSES . CONFUSIO...
Various Sins Against the Sanctity of Holy Wedlock
1 Corinthians 5:1 ; 1 Corinthians 5:13 ; Deuteronomy 27:20 ; Ezekiel 16:8 ; Leviticus 18:8 ; Leviticus 20:11 ; Ruth 3:9
Take — To wife. So this respects the state, and the next branch speaks of the act only.