Leviticus 19:26 Commentary, explanation, study verse by verse

“ Ye shall not eat any thing with the blood: neither shall ye use enchantment, nor observe times. ”

• Leviticus 19:26 - Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

  Certain pagan customs, several of them connected with magic, are here grouped together. The prohibition to eat anything with the blood may indeed refer to the eating of meat which had not been prop...

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• Leviticus 19:26 - Arno Geneva Study Bible

  Ye shall not eat [any thing] with the blood: neither shall ye use enchantment, nor (i) observe times. (i) To measure lucky or unlucky days.

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• Leviticus 19:26 - Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

  Miscellaneous Precepts, all found elsewhere, except the last. Most of the forbidden actions have some magical significance, e.g. cutting the hair in a special fashion, or maiming oneself (origina...

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• Leviticus 19:26 - Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

  observe times: i.e. watch clouds, or days, for good or ill luck, e.g. not commencing. journey on. Friday. See note on Leviticus 19:31 below.

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• Leviticus 19:26 - Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

  Ye shall not eat any thing with the blood: neither shall ye use enchantment, nor observe times. Neither shall ye use enchantment - לא תנחשו lo thenachashu. Conjecture itself can do little towards a...

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• Leviticus 19:26 - Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

  Nor observe times— This should certainly be read, nor augur or divine by clouds; which is well known to have been a general practice among the heathens. That this is the precise meaning of the...

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• Leviticus 19:26 - Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

  Ye shall not eat any thing with the blood: neither shall ye use enchantment, nor observe times. Ye shall not eat any thing with the blood, х `al ( H5921 ) hadaam ( H1818 )] - upon th...

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• Leviticus 19:26 - Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

  Various Laws, mainly of a Moral and Humane Character This chapter was very naturally regarded by Jewish authorities as an embodiment of the Decalogue. It will be observed that in general the prece...

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• Leviticus 19:26 - Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

  Ye shall not eat any thing with the blood. — According to the administrators of the law during the second Temple, there are no less than five different things forbidden here. It prohibits (1) eatin...

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• Leviticus 19:26 - Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

  THE LAW OF HOLINESS (CONCLUDED) Leviticus 19:1-37 WE have in this chapter a series of precepts and prohibitions which from internal evidence appear to have been selected by an inspired redactor...

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• Leviticus 19:26 - G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

  The more positive habits of separation are insisted on by the repetition of laws already given, with one reiterated emphasis, namely, the fact that the God of this people is Jehovah. There was, first...

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• Leviticus 19:26 - Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary

  These precepts are rather obscure. It is probable, that they refer to the heathenish practices of the idolatrous neighbours around Israel. And if so, they serve to teach, that everything which hath t...

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• Leviticus 19:26 - John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

  Ye shall not eat [anything] with the blood ,.... Or upon, over, or by the blood s, for this law seems different from that in Genesis 9:4 , and from those in Leviticus 3:17 ; and is variously inter...

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• Leviticus 19:26 - John Trapp Complete Commentary

  Ye shall not eat [any thing] with the blood: neither shall ye use enchantment, nor observe times. Ver. 26. Neither shall ye use enchantment. ] Or, observe fortunes, conjecture by signs of good or...

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• Leviticus 19:26 - Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

  Any thing with the blood Any flesh out of which the blood is not first poured. Neither shall ye use enchantments It was unpardonable in them, to whom were committed the oracles of God , to ask c...

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• Leviticus 19:26 - L. M. Grant's Commentary on the Bible

  MANY LAWS GROUPED TOGETHER (vv. 1-37) We have seen at the beginning and end of chapter 18 God's announcement, “I am the Lord your God.” In chapter 19 the expression “I am the Lord” occurs 15 times...

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• Leviticus 19:26 - Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

        19 Ye shall keep my statutes. Thou shalt not let thy cattle gender with a diverse kind: thou shalt not sow thy field with mingled seed: neither shall a garment mingled of linen and woollen co...

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• Leviticus 19:26 - Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

  With the blood, i. e. any flesh out of which the blood is not first poured. See 1 Samuel 14:32 . The Jews write, that the Egyptians and other nations, when they offered sacrifices to the devils,...

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• Leviticus 19:26 - Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

  Bans In Religious Matters: Warnings Against Pagan Practises ( Leviticus 19:26-29 ). There now follow in the name of Yahweh a number of provisions banning various aspects connected with ‘other-worl...

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• Leviticus 19:26 - Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

  Practical Piety: Religion in all Relationships SUGGESTIVE READINGS Leviticus 19:2 .—Speak unto all the congregation of the children of Israel, and say: Nowhere else in the whole of Leviticus doe...

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• Leviticus 19:26 - Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

  The leading precepts of the law are here repeated to give them new force, and with many additions and illustrations, that they might be better understood. Most of these having already been explained,...

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• Leviticus 19:26 - The Complete Pulpit Commentary

  EXPOSITION From the prohibition of moral uncleanness exhibiting itself in the form of incest and licentiousness, the legislator proceeds to a series of laws and commandments against other kinds...

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• Leviticus 19:26 - Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

  1 Samuel 15:23 ; 2 Chronicles 33:6 ; 2 Kings 17:17 ; 2 Kings 21:6 ; Daniel 2:10 ; Deuteronomy 12:23 ; Deuteronomy 18:10-14 ; Exodus 7:11 ; Exodus 8:7 ; Jeremiah 10:2 ; Leviticus 17:10-14 ;...

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• Leviticus 19:26 - Wesley's Explanatory Notes

  Any thing with the blood — Any flesh out of which the blood is poured. Neither shall ye use enchantments — It was unpardonable in them, to whom were committed the oracles of God, to ask counsel of...

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