“ Sanctify yourselves therefore, and be ye holy: for I am the LORD your God. ”
Worship of Molech, etc. Offering children to Molech (see Leviticus 18:21 *) is to be punished by stoning; such a death emphasizes the repudiation by the whole community and involves everyone in t...
the LORD [Hebrew. Jehovah. your God [Hebrew. Elohim. Some codices, with Samaritan Pentateuch and Septuagint, read. "I am holy, Jehovah your God".
Sanctify yourselves therefore, and be ye holy: for I am the LORD your God.
Sanctify yourselves therefore, and be ye holy: for I am the LORD your God. Sanctify yourselves ... and be ye holy. The minute specification of the incestuous and unnatural crimes here enumera...
(Chs. 17-26) The Law of Holiness This section of Leviticus occupies a position by itself, being distinguished from the rest of the book both by style and contents. A few only of its main character...
Sanctify yourselves therefore, and be ye holy. — Rather, Ye shall therefore sanctify yourselves, and ye shall be holy, as the same phrase is rendered in the Authorised Version in Leviticus 11:44...
PENAL SANCTIONS Leviticus 20:1-27 In no age or community has it been found sufficient, to secure obedience, that one should appeal to the conscience of men, or depend, as a sufficient motive, u...
Once more we have a repetition of laws already enunciated with the same persistent thought of responsibility. In this section we find the death sentence associated with certain forms of disobedience,...
The LORD'S people must be a distinguished people, 1 Peter 1:16 .
SANCTIFICATION HUMAN AND DIVINE ‘Sanctify yourselves.’ … ‘I am the Lord which sanctify you.’ Leviticus 20:7-8 I. Sanctification is God’s aim for us all. —‘God called us, not for uncleanness...
Sanctify yourselves therefore ,.... By abstaining from such impious and idolatrous practices, and separating themselves from all that gave into them, as well as by observing the holy commandments of...
Sanctify yourselves therefore, and be ye holy: for I [am] the LORD your God. Ver. 7. For I am the Lord your God. ] And God that is holy should be sanctified in righteousness. Isa 5:16
PENALTIES FOR SIN GODWARD (vv. 1-8) Chapter 19 has given many laws forbidding sin; now chapter 20 shows that law, when it is broken, demands certain penalties. These penalties were to be executed...
Moral Laws. B. C. 1490. 1 And the L ORD spake unto Moses, saying, 2 Again, thou shalt...
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Israel Are To Be Sanctified And Obedient ( Leviticus 20:7-8 ). Israel are to sanctify themselves to being holy ( Leviticus 20:7 ) and must be obedient because Yahweh is santifying them ( Leviticus...
Social and Moral Crimes SUGGESTIVE READINGS Leviticus 20:2 .—Again thou shalt say to the children of Israel. These denunclations of sin (already denounced in ch. 18.) are to be repeated in the...
Leviticus 20:2 . Molech. See on Leviticus 18:21 . Leviticus 20:3 . I will cut him off. Ahaz gave his son to Molech, and the Lord afflicted his reign with miseries. Leviticus 20:7 . Sanctif...
He shall surely be put to death. Penal sanctions This chapter, directly or indirectly, casts no little light on some most fundamental and practical questions regarding the administration of jus...
EXPOSITION The subject of Leviticus 18:1-3 , is resumed in this chapter; but that which was before considered as sin only is now regarded as crime, and penalties are attached according to the h...
For Sins Against the Sixth, Second, and Fourth Commandments
1 Peter 1:15 ; 1 Peter 1:16 ; 1 Thessalonians 4:3 ; 1 Thessalonians 4:7 ; Colossians 3:12 ; Ephesians 1:4 ; Hebrews 12:14 ; Leviticus 11:44 ; Leviticus 19:2