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Text -- Leviticus 18:23-30 (NET)
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18:23 You must not have sexual intercourse with any animal to become defiled with it, and a woman must not stand before an animal to have sexual intercourse with it ; it is a perversion .
Warning against the Abominations of the Nations
18:24 “‘Do not defile yourselves with any of these things , for the nations which I am about to drive out before you have been defiled with all these things .
18:25 Therefore the land has become unclean and I have brought the punishment for its iniquity upon it, so that the land has vomited out its inhabitants .
18:26 You yourselves must obey my statutes and my regulations and must not do any of these abominations , both the native citizen and the resident foreigner in your midst ,
18:27 for the people who were in the land before you have done all these abominations , and the land has become unclean .
18:28 So do not make the land vomit you out because you defile it just as it has vomited out the nations that were before you.
18:29 For if anyone does any of these abominations , the persons who do them will be cut off from the midst of their people .
18:30 You must obey my charge to not practice any of the abominable statutes that have been done before you, so that you do not defile yourselves by them. I am the Lord your God .’”
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Names, People and Places, Dictionary Themes and Topics
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Dictionary Themes and Topics:
LEVITICUS, 1 |
Israel |
PURITY |
ATONEMENT, DAY OF |
RIGHTEOUSNESS |
WOMAN |
LAW IN THE OLD TESTAMENT |
Canaanites |
Abomination |
Heathen |
Wicked |
HARLOT |
Bestiality |
Homosexuality |
Judgments |
PUNISHMENTS |
CUSTOM (2) |
CRIME; CRIMES |
CONFUSION |
HOME-BORN |
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NET Notes: Lev 18:23 The Hebrew term תֶּבֶל (tevel, “perversion”) derives from the verb “to mix; to confuse” an...
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NET Notes: Lev 18:24 Heb “which I am sending away (Piel participle of שָׁלַח [shalakh, “to send”]) from your faces....
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NET Notes: Lev 18:25 Heb “and I have visited its [punishment for] iniquity on it.” See the note on Lev 17:16 above.
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NET Notes: Lev 18:26 Heb “the native and the sojourner”; NIV “The native-born and the aliens”; NAB “whether natives or resident aliens.”...
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NET Notes: Lev 18:27 Heb “for all these abominations the men of the land who were before you have done.”
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NET Notes: Lev 18:28 The MT reads the singular “nation” and is followed by ASV, NASB, NRSV; the LXX, Syriac, and Targum have the plural “nations” (...
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