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Verse Leviticus 18:18. _A WIFE TO HER SISTER_] Thou shalt not marry
two sisters at the same time, as Jacob did Rachel and Leah; but there
is nothing in this law that rendered it illegal to marry a
si...
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TO VEX HER - literally, to “bind” or “pack together”. The
Jewish commentators illustrate this by the example of Leah and Rachel
Genesis 29:30....
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V. PRACTICAL HOLINESS IN DAILY LIFE
1. Different Unholy Relationships
CHAPTER 18
_ 1. Separation and obedience (Leviticus 18:1)_
2. Unholy relationships (Leviticus 18:6)
3. Vile and abominable pr...
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FORBIDDEN DEGREES OF MARRIAGE. After a general preface (Leviticus
18:6) the relationships are given in detail. The phrase uncover the
nakedness is almost confined to Leviticus 17-20, Ezek., and Genesi...
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_a woman to her sister_ This is clearly right, as against the A.V. mg.
- _one_wife to another." It is the marriage of two sisters together
that is prohibited. The words that follow (-in her lifetime")...
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Laws dealing with various Moral Subjects
These three chs. contain features common to two or all three of them,
which are found nowhere else in the Pentateuch. Such are (1) a
collection of laws combin...
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PROHIBITED MARRIAGE RELATIONSHIPS 18:6-18
TEXT 18:6-18
6
None of you shall approach to any that are near of kin to him, to
uncover _their_ nakedness: I am Jehovah.
7
The nakedness of thy father, e...
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_NEITHER SHALT THOU TAKE A WIFE TO HER SISTER, TO VEX HER, TO UNCOVER
HER NAKEDNESS, BESIDE THE OTHER IN HER LIFE TIME._
Neither shalt thou take a wife to her sister ... in her life-time,
х_ 'ISHAAH_...
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LAW OF FORBIDDEN DEGREES OF MARRIAGE, AND OF CHASTITY
3. Some of the unions here forbidden as incestuous were permitted
among the nations of antiquity. The early Egyptians, e.g. permitted
marriage wit...
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IN HER LIFE _time_] This implies that after the death of the first
wife a man might marry her sister. It is not a law against polygamy
but only against a special form of it, viz. marrying two sisters....
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LEVITICUS
*WORSHIP THE *LORD IN THE BEAUTY OF *HOLINESS
LEVITICUS
_GORDON CHURCHYARD_
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A WIFE TO HER SISTER. — That is, a man is here forbidden to take a
second sister for a wife to or in addition to the one who is already
his wife, and who is still alive. This clause therefore forbids...
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וְ אִשָּׁ֥ה אֶל ־אֲחֹתָ֖הּ לֹ֣א
תִקָּ֑ח לִ
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THE LAW OF HOLINESS: CHASTITY
Leviticus 18:1
Chapter S 18, 19, and 20, by a formal introduction Leviticus 18:1 and
a formal closing, Leviticus 20:22 are indicated as a distinct section,
very commonly...
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At this point in the enunciation of the laws of separation they assume
a slightly altered character. So far, the fundamental matters of
relationships to God have been the principal note. Now the habit...
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Neither shalt thou take a wife to her sister, to (i) vex [her], to
uncover her nakedness, beside the other in her life [time].
(i) By seeing your affection more bent to her sister than to her....
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_Rival her, ( in pellicatum). Hebrew and Chaldean, "to trouble her."
After the death of one sister, it seems, another might be taken. Jacob
had two at once. Some think that polygamy is here forbidden....
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These precepts, considered in a moral sense, carry with them
conviction of their own propriety. And if explained spiritually, they
serve to convey this idea, that the souls who are taken into covenant...
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We have seen the various forms of the work of Christ, of His offering
of Himself to God, whether in all the perfectness of His life, or in
His death as the means of our acceptance. We have seen furthe...
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18._Neither shalt thou take a wife to her sister_. By this passage
certain froward persons pretend that it is permitted, if a man has
lost his wife, to marry her own sister, because the restriction is...
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Chapter 18 keeps them from dishonouring themselves in the things which
belong to nature itself-to what man ought to be in his natural
relations, that he might not dishonour himself. Man ought not to d...
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NEITHER SHALT THOU TAKE A WIFE TO HER SISTER,.... Both of them
together, as Jarchi; two sisters at one and the same time; so the
Targum of Jonathan,
"a woman in the life of her sister thou shall not...
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Neither shalt thou take a wife to her sister, to vex [her], to uncover
her nakedness, beside the other in her life [time].
Ver. 18. _A wife to her sister,_] _i.e., _ Any two women together:
compare E...
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_A wife to her sister_ The meaning seems to be, that no man should
take to wife two sisters, which had sometimes been done, as we see in
the example of Jacob. It may, however, signify that a man, who...
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[VNLAWFULL MARRIAGES.]
1 Vnlawfull Marriages.
19 Vnlawfull lusts.
1 AND the LORD spake vnto Moses, saying,
2 Speake vnto the children of Israel, and say vnto them, I am the LORD
your God.
3 After...
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Neither shalt thou take a wife to her sister, one wife to another, in
the relationship known as bigamy, TO VEX HER, TO UNCOVER HER
NAKEDNESS, BESIDE THE OTHER IN HER LIFE TIME. Any violation of the
or...
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UNLAWFUL MARRIAGES...
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FORBIDDING SEXUAL SINS (VV. 1-30)
Chapter 17 has dealt with sin directly against God; now chapter 18
speaks of sin in relationship with other creatures, primarily humans,
but also animals (v. 23). Mos...
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The word SISTER is here understood, either,
1. Properly, so some; whence others infer that it is lawful to marry
one's wife's sister after the wife's death. Or,
2. Improperly for any other woman, as...
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LEVITICUS 20:1-27.
This section sets before us, in a very remarkable manner, the personal
sanctity and moral propriety which Jehovah looked for, on the part of
those whom He had graciously introduced...
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Leviticus 18:18 take H3947 (H8799) woman H802 rival H6887 (H8800)
sister H269 uncover H1540 ...
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RELATIONSHIPS WITHIN FAMILIES (LEVITICUS 18:6).
Leviticus 18:6
“None of you shall approach to any who are near of kin to him, to
uncover their nakedness: I am Yahweh.”
Firstly the initial principle...
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CONTENTS: Relationship and walk of God's people.
CHARACTERS: God, Moses.
CONCLUSION: Fleshly lusts war against the soul and will certainly be
the ruin of it, if God's mercy and grace prevent not.
K...
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Leviticus 18:21. _Molech,_ or Moloch, was the chief idol of the
Sabians, and of the Ammonites. 1 Kings 11:7; 1 Kings 11:33. To this
idol Solomon built a high place on mount Olivet. The form of the ido...
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_None of you shall approach to any that is near of kin to him._
CONSANGUINITY
1. God the institutor of marriage (Leviticus 18:6).
2. Faith in Christ not commanded in the law (Leviticus 18:5).
3. O...
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LEVITICUS—NOTE ON LEVITICUS 18:1 The Call to Holiness. This section
applies the principle of holiness (Leviticus 19:1) to various aspects
of Israelite life. Chapte
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LEVITICUS—NOTE ON LEVITICUS 18:6 These laws prohibit sexual
relations (APPROACH... TO UNCOVER NAKEDNESS), and therefore marriage,
between people who are too closely related, either by blood (mother,
s...
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LEVITICUS—NOTE ON LEVITICUS 18:18 YOU SHALL NOT TAKE A WOMAN AS A
RIVAL WIFE TO HER SISTER. Polygamy violates the creation ideal
(Genesis 2:24), and polygamous marriages
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Incestuous Marriages: Domestic Purity
SUGGESTIVE READINGS
Leviticus 18:2.—Speak unto them and say, I am the Lord your God.
Jehovah is the sole lawgiver, His word the one law to His people:
ungodly cu...
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PART III. SECTION III.
EXPOSITION
MORAL UNCLEANNESS AND ITS PUNISHMENT. This being the subject of the
three following chapters (chapters 18-20), they naturally form a
sequence to chapters 11-17, whic...
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Here we find the term used over and over again, "For I am the Lord
your God." So God wants a holy people. He tells them how they are to
walk with them. "For I am the Lord your God", and actually layin...
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1 Samuel 1:6; Exodus 26:3; Genesis 29:28; Genesis 30:15; Genesis 4:19;...