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Don`t defile yourselves in any of these things: for in all these the nations are defiled which I cast out from before you;
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A Warning from History
Commentators unanimously see this verse as a solemn warning. God explains that the preceding laws against sexual immorality are not arbitrary; they are the very practices that led to the defilement and judgment of the Canaanite nations. As John Calvin notes, the fact that these sins were common practice among the Canaanites is no excuse. God uses their downfall as a real-world object lesson for Israel.
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Leviticus
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18th Century
Presbyterian
The land designed and consecrated for His people by Yahweh (Leviticus 25:23) is here personified and represented as vomiting forth its …
19th Century
Anglican
Defile not ye yourselves. —The Lawgiver who solemnly introduced these precepts by five verses of preamble at the beginnin…
16th Century
Protestant
Defile not yourselves in any of these things. An old proverb62 says that good laws have sprung from evil habits; and God remind…
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17th Century
Reformed Baptist
Defile not you yourselves in any of these things In incestuous copulations and marriages, in adultery, corporeal and spir…