Leviticus 18 · Geneva Bible Notes (1560) · Commentaries (Good Books Free)

³ ^a Ye shal preserue your selues from these abominations following, which the Egyptians and the Canaanities vse.

³ ^! The Israelites oght not to followe the maners of the Egyptians and the Canaanities.

⁵ ^b And therefore ye oght to serue me alone, as my people.

⁶ ^! The mariages that are vnlawful.

⁶ ^c That is, to lie with her, thogh it be vnder title of mariage.

⁸ ^d Which is thy stepmother.

⁹ ^e Ether by father or by mother, borne in mariage or otherwise.

¹⁰ ^f Thei are her children whose shame thou hast vncouered.

¹² ^/ Or, secrets.

¹⁴ ^/ Ebr. thy fathers brothers wife.

¹⁴ ^g Which thine vncle doeth discouer.

¹⁶ ^h Because the idolaters among whome Gods people had dwelt & shulde dwel were giuen to these horrible incests, God chargeth his to beware of the same.

¹⁸ ⁱ By seing thine affection more bent to her sister then to her.

¹⁹ ^k Or, whiles she hathe her floures.

²¹ ^l Which was an idole of the Ammonites, vnto whome thei burned and sacrificed their children, {2 King, 23,10}.

²¹ ^/ Or, to make them passe.

²¹ ^/ Ebr. of thy sede.

²³ ^/ Or, confusion.

²⁵ ^m I wil punish the land where suche incestuous mariages & pollutions are suffred.

²⁵ ⁿ He compareth the wicked to euil humours and surfeting which corrupt the stomacke and oppress nature and therefore must be cast out by vomet.

²⁸ ^o Bothe for their wicked mariages, vnnatural copulations, idolatrie or spiritual whoredome with Molech, and suche like abominacions.

²⁹ ^p Ether by the ciuile sworde or by some plague that God wil send vpon suche.

Geneva Bible Notes (1560)Leviticus 18

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