Leviticus 20:22

Keep my laws and my judgments, and do them: lest the land into which you are to enter to dwell therein, vomit you also out.

Douay-Rheims 1899

In The King James Version

Ye shall therefore keep all my statutes, and all my judgments, and do them: that the land, whither I bring you to dwell therein, spue you not out.

In Context

21He that marrieth his brother's wife, doth an unlawful thing, he hath uncovered his brother's nakedness: they shall be without children.

23Walk not after the laws of the nations, which I will cast out before you. For they have done all these things, and therefore I abhorred them.

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Cross References

Exodus 21:1These are the judgments which thou shalt set before them.

Leviticus 18:25And with which the land is defiled: the abominations of which I will visit, that it may vomit out its inhabitants.

Leviticus 26:33And I will scatter you among the Gentiles, and I will draw out the sword after you, and your land shall be desert, and your cities destroyed.

Deuteronomy 5:1And Moses called all Israel, and said to them: Hear, O Israel, the ceremonies and judgments, which I speak in your ears this day: learn them, and fulfil them in work.

Psalms 19:8The law of the Lord is unspotted, converting souls: the testimony of the Lord is faithful, giving wisdom to little ones.

Matthew Henry on Leviticus 20:11-22

10 And the man that committeth adultery with another man's wife, even he that committeth adultery with his neighbour's wife, the adulterer and the adulteress shall surely be put to death. 11 And the man that lieth with his father's wife hath uncovered his father's nakedness: both of them shall surely be put to death; their blood shall be upon them. 12 And if a man lie with his daughter in law, both of them shall surely be put to death: they have wrought confusion; their blood shall be upon them. 13 If a man also… Read the whole commentary →

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