Leviticus 17:7 - Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

Bible Comments

no more: implies that they had done so in Egypt to the goat image "Pan". Compare Joshua 24:14.Ezekiel 20:7; Ezekiel 23:3, &c, and especially 2 Chronicles 11:15.

offer. slay in sacrifice. Hebrew zabac h. App-43.

devils. Hebrew. sa'ir. (Only here and 2 Chronicles 11:15, "devils". In Isaiah 13:21; Isaiah 34:14 rendered "satyrs". an imaginary demon: half-goat, half-man. Septuagint. demons:) from Hebrew root, meaning to shudder. From this "Pan" came the "satyrs", "fauns", and woodland gods of Greece and Rome, and also the "devil" of Christendom.

Leviticus 17:7

7 And they shall no more offer their sacrifices unto devils, after whom they have gone a whoring. This shall be a statute for ever unto them throughout their generations.