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 combined with a hortatory introduction and summary (Leviticus 18:1-5; Leviticus 18:24-30; Leviticus 19:2;... [ Continue Reading ]
1. Purity in those connected through the relationship of parent and child. The first Pentad: _Kinship of the first degree, Leviticus 18:6_. The second Pentad: _Kinship of the second degree, Leviticus 18:11_.... [ Continue Reading ]
Purity in remoter relationships. The first Pentad: _Relationships through marriage, Leviticus 18:16_. The second Pentad: _Purity outside of the family, Leviticus 18:20_. To the exhortation concluding with -I am the Lord your God" (Leviticus 18:30) he would add Leviticus 19:2 _b_, -Ye shall be hol... [ Continue Reading ]
_I am the Lord_ For the significance of this often repeated expression, see pp. xlviii f.... [ Continue Reading ]
A general exhortation (hence perhaps the plural; see above), introductory to the enumeration of specific cases. Baentsch attributes it to the author of the preceding verses.... [ Continue Reading ]
This is the one case which appears (apart from two others in the imprecations, Deuteronomy 27:22-23), but stated in different words, in Deut. (Deuteronomy 22:30 [Hebrews 23:1], Deuteronomy 27:20). This has been thought to point to the code represented by the _v._in Deut. as earlier than that here; b... [ Continue Reading ]
The prohibition in the case of a daughter was probably omitted accidentally by a copyist from the beginning of this _v._... [ Continue Reading ]
_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") show that the law, as set down here, does not prohibit marriage with a deceased wife's sister. Howe... [ Continue Reading ]
A more suitable position for this precept would be at the end of the laws in Leviticus 18:7. It occurs in a developed form in Leviticus 20:2-5. Its sudden interposition may be accounted for by remembering the condemnation of idolatry under the figure of unfaithfulness to the marriage tie (cp. the ex... [ Continue Reading ]
See general note at the beginning of the ch. These _vv._are probably expanded from earlier materials. After the warning in Leviticus 18:24 the standpoint changes, and the remainder of the passage is a reflection on the past, the verbs being really in the past tense, _were_defiled, _was_defiled, I _v... [ Continue Reading ]