Leviticus 20:22

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.

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Word by word — the Hebrew

Word	Hebrew	Strong’s	Meaning
keep	וּשְׁמַרְתֶּ֤ם u.she.mar.Tem	H8104	properly · conjunction + verb, qal sequential perfect, 2nd person masculine plural
statutes	חֻקֹּתַי֙ chu.ko.Tai	H2708	an enactment · noun, common feminine plural construct + pronominal suffix
judgments	מִשְׁפָּטַ֔י mish.pa.Tai	H4941	properly · noun, common masculine plural construct + pronominal suffix
do	וַעֲשִׂיתֶ֖ם va.'a.si.Tem	H6213	to do or make · conjunction + verb, qal sequential perfect, 2nd person masculine plural
land	הָאָ֔רֶץ ha.'A.retz	H776	the earth (at large · definite article + noun, common feminine singular absolute
bring	מֵבִ֥יא me.Vi'	H935	to go or come (in a wide variety of applications) · verb, hiphil active participle, masculine singular absolute
dwell	לָשֶׁ֥בֶת la.She.vet	H3427	properly · preposition + verb, qal infinitive construct
out	תָקִ֤יא ta.Ki'	H6958	to vomit · verb, hiphil imperfect, 3rd person feminine singular

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Cross-references

Leviticus 18:25-28 And the land is defiled: therefore I do visit the iniquity thereof upon it, and the land itself vomiteth out her inhabitants.
Ezekiel 36:27 And I will put my spirit within you, and cause you to walk in my statutes, and ye shall keep my judgments, and do them.
Leviticus 18:4-5 Ye shall do my judgments, and keep mine ordinances, to walk therein: I am the LORD your God.
Psalms 105:45 That they might observe his statutes, and keep his laws. Praise ye the LORD.
Psalms 119:20 My soul breaketh for the longing that it hath unto thy judgments at all times.
Psalms 119:80 Let my heart be sound in thy statutes; that I be not ashamed.
Psalms 119:145 I cried with my whole heart; hear me, O LORD: I will keep thy statutes.
Psalms 119:160 Thy word is true from the beginning: and every one of thy righteous judgments endureth for ever.

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Commentary

Matthew Henry on Leviticus 20:22–end

The last verse is a particular law, which comes in after the general conclusion, as if omitted in its proper place: it is for the putting of those to death that dealt with familiar spirits, Lev 20:27. It would be an affront to God and to his lively oracles, a scandal to the country, and a temptation to ignorant bad people, to consult them, if such were known and suffered to live among them. Those that are in league with the devil have in effect made a covenant with death and an agreement with hell, and so shall their doom be. The rest of these verses repeat and inculcate what had been said before; for to that unthinking forgetful people it was requisite that there should be line upon line, a…

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Jamieson-Fausset-Brown on Leviticus 20:20

they shall die childless--Either by the judgment of God they shall have no children, or their spurious offspring shall be denied by human authority the ordinary privileges of children in Israel.

Adam Clarke on Leviticus 20:22

The land, whither I bring you to dwell therein, spue you not out - See this energetic prosopopoeia explained in the note on Lev 18:25 (note). From this we learn that the cup of the iniquities of the Canaanitish nations was full; and that, consistently with Divine justice, they could be no longer spared.

John Gill on Leviticus 20:22

Ye shall therefore keep all my statutes,.... All the ordinances, institutions, and appointments of God, whether observed in this chapter or elsewhere, but particularly those concerning incestuous marriages and unlawful copulations: and all my judgments, and do them; all the laws and commandments of God, founded injustice and judgment, and according to the rules thereof; or else, as Aben Ezra, the judgments of punishment, or the penalties annexed to the above laws, which were carefully to be observed, and put into execution, to deter from the transgression of them: that the land, whither I bring you to dwell therein, spew you not out; as the stomach does its food when it is loathsome and na…

Dictionary and topics

Crucifixion — A common mode of punishment among heathen nations in early times. It is not certain whether it was known among the ancient Jews; probably it was not. The modes of capital punishment according to the…
Obedience · ENJOINED — ENJOINED

Dictionary: Easton's (1897) and Smith's (1863), public domain. Topics: Nave's Topical Bible (1896) and Torrey's Topical Textbook (1897), public domain. Both as parsed by NEUU (CC BY 4.0).

Leviticus 20:22

Word by word — the Hebrew

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Commentary

Matthew Henry on Leviticus 20:22–end

Jamieson-Fausset-Brown on Leviticus 20:20

Adam Clarke on Leviticus 20:22

John Gill on Leviticus 20:22

Dictionary and topics

Leviticus 20:22

Word by word — the Hebrew

Cross-references

Commentary

Matthew Henry on Leviticus 20:22–end

Jamieson-Fausset-Brown on Leviticus 20:20

Adam Clarke on Leviticus 20:22

John Gill on Leviticus 20:22

Dictionary and topics

John Calvin on Leviticus 20:18-24

Keil & Delitzsch on Leviticus 20:22-26

Tyndale Open Study Notes on Leviticus 20:20-21

Rashi on Leviticus 20:21