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Text -- Leviticus 18:1-10 (NET)
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Context
Exhortation to Obedience and Life
18:1 The Lord spoke to Moses :
18:2 “Speak to the Israelites and tell them, ‘I am the Lord your God !
18:3 You must not do as they do in the land of Egypt where you have been living , and you must not do as they do in the land of Canaan into which I am about to bring you; you must not walk in their statutes .
18:4 You must observe my regulations and you must be sure to walk in my statutes . I am the Lord your God .
18:5 So you must keep my statutes and my regulations ; anyone who does so will live by keeping them. I am the Lord .
Laws of Sexual Relations
18:6 “‘No man is to approach any close relative to have sexual intercourse with her. I am the Lord .
18:7 You must not expose your father’s nakedness by having sexual intercourse with your mother . She is your mother ; you must not have intercourse with her.
18:8 You must not have sexual intercourse with your father’s wife ; she is your father’s nakedness .
18:9 You must not have sexual intercourse with your sister , whether she is your father’s daughter or your mother’s daughter , whether she is born in the same household or born outside it; you must not have sexual intercourse with either of them.
18:10 You must not expose the nakedness of your son’s daughter or your daughter’s daughter by having sexual intercourse with them, because they are your own nakedness .
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Names, People and Places, Dictionary Themes and Topics
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Names, People and Places:
Dictionary Themes and Topics:
PURITY |
Marriage |
WOMAN |
LEVITICUS, 1 |
Israel |
ATONEMENT, DAY OF |
RIGHTEOUSNESS |
LAW IN THE OLD TESTAMENT |
Affinity |
Abomination |
Sexual Intercourse |
BASTARD |
Incest |
RELATIONSHIPS, FAMILY |
ALLIANCE |
Example |
ENCHANTMENT |
DEATH |
Mother |
Quotations and Allusions |
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NET Notes: Lev 18:5 Heb “which the man shall do them and shall live in them.” The term for “a man, human being; mankind” (אָד...
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NET Notes: Lev 18:6 The general statement prohibiting sexual intercourse between close relatives serves as an opening summary statement for the following section, which g...
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NET Notes: Lev 18:7 Commentators suggest that the point of referring to the father’s nakedness is that the mother’s sexuality belongs to the father and is for...
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NET Notes: Lev 18:8 Heb “the nakedness of your father she is.” See the note on v. 7 above. This law refers to another wife of the man’s father, who is n...
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