Leviticus 20:24

But I have said unto you, Ye shall inherit their land, and I will give it unto you to possess it, a land that floweth with milk and honey: I am the LORD your God, which have separated you from other people.

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Word	Hebrew	Strong’s	Meaning
said	וָאֹמַ֣ר va.'o.Mar	H559	to say (used with great latitude) · conjunction + verb, qal sequential imperfect, 1st person common singular
inherit	תִּֽירְשׁ֣וּ ti.re.Shu	H3423	to occupy (by driving out previous tenants · verb, qal imperfect, 2nd person masculine plural
land	אַדְמָתָם֒ 'ad.ma.Tam	H127	soil (from its general redness) · noun, common feminine singular construct + pronominal suffix, 3rd person masculine plural
give	אֶתְּנֶ֤נָּה 'et.te.Ne.nah	H5414	to give · verb, qal imperfect, 1st person common singular + pronominal suffix, 3rd person feminine singular
possess	לָרֶ֣שֶׁת la.Re.shet	H3423	to occupy (by driving out previous tenants · preposition + verb, qal infinitive construct
land	אֶ֛רֶץ 'E.retz	H776	the earth (at large · noun, common feminine singular absolute
floweth	זָבַ֥ת za.Vat	H2100	to flow freely (as water) · verb, qal active participle, feminine singular construct
milk	חָלָ֖ב cha.Lav	H2461	milk (as the richness of kine) · noun, common masculine singular absolute
honey	וּדְבָ֑שׁ u.de.Vash	H1706	honey (from its stickiness) · conjunction + noun, common masculine singular absolute
LORD	יְהוָ֣ה Yah.weh	H3068	Jehovah · proper noun, a title
God	אֱלֹֽהֵיכֶ֔ם 'e.lo.hei.Khem	H430	gods in the ordinary sense · noun, common masculine plural construct + pronominal suffix, 2nd person masculine plural
separated	הִבְדַּ֥לְתִּי hiv.Dal.ti	H914	to divide (in variation senses literally or figuratively · verb, hiphil perfect, 1st person common singular
people	הָֽעַמִּֽים Ha.'a.Mim	H5971	a people (as a congregated unit) · definite article + noun, common masculine plural absolute

Strong's Exhaustive Concordance (James Strong, 1890/1894), public domain; digitized by Open Scriptures (CC BY-SA). KJV word tagging: eBible.org (public domain). Original-language text, parsing and brief lexicon: STEPBible.org data from Tyndale House, Cambridge (CC BY 4.0).

Cross-references

Deuteronomy 14:2 For thou art an holy people unto the LORD thy God, and the LORD hath chosen thee to be a peculiar people unto himself, above all the nations…
Exodus 3:8 And I am come down to deliver them out of the hand of the Egyptians, and to bring them up out of that land unto a good land and a large, unt…
Exodus 3:17 And I have said, I will bring you up out of the affliction of Egypt unto the land of the Canaanites, and the Hittites, and the Amorites, and…
Exodus 6:8 And I will bring you in unto the land, concerning the which I did swear to give it to Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob; and I will give it yo…
Deuteronomy 7:6 For thou art an holy people unto the LORD thy God: the LORD thy God hath chosen thee to be a special people unto himself, above all people t…
Exodus 33:16 For wherein shall it be known here that I and thy people have found grace in thy sight? is it not in that thou goest with us? so shall we be…
Leviticus 20:26 And ye shall be holy unto me: for I the LORD am holy, and have severed you from other people, that ye should be mine.
1 Kings 8:53 For thou didst separate them from among all the people of the earth, to be thine inheritance, as thou spakest by the hand of Moses thy serva…

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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 20:24

I . . . have separated you from other people--Their selection from the rest of the nations was for the all-important end of preserving the knowledge and worship of the true God amid the universal apostasy; and as the distinction of meats was one great means of completing that separation, the law about making a difference between clean and unclean beasts is here repeated with emphatic solemnity. Next: Leviticus Chapter 21

Adam Clarke on Leviticus 20:24

A land that floweth with milk and honey - See this explained Exo 3:8 (note).

John Gill on Leviticus 20:24

But I have said unto you, ye shall inherit the land,.... Promised it unto them, as he had to their fathers, Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, and also to them; or he had said the above things unto them, that they, observing them, might possess the land of Canaan, and continue therein, which is the sense of the Targum of Jonathan: the Jews say, that the right of inheritance belonged to them, from Shem the son of Noah, whose portion it was, and which they gather from Melchizedek being king of Salem, whom they take to be Shem; and they say, the Canaanites only dwelt in it to make it better, till they should come and inherit it: and I will give it unto you to possess it; in whose gift it was, and who…

Dictionary and topics

Clean — The various forms of uncleanness according to the Mosaic law are enumerated in Lev. 11-15; Num. 19. The division of animals into clean and unclean was probably founded on the practice of sacrifice.…
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…
Uncleanness — The distinctive idea attached to ceremonial uncleanness among the Hebrews was that it cut a person off for the time from social privileges, and left his citizenship among God’s people for the while…
Wine — The common Hebrew word for wine is yayin, from a root meaning “to boil up,” “to be in a ferment.” Others derive it from a root meaning “to tread out,” and hence the juice of the grape trodden out.…
Honey · Plentiful in Palestine — Plentiful in Palestine
Jews, The · Separated from all other nations — Separated from all other nations

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 20:24

Word by word — the Hebrew

Cross-references

Commentary

Matthew Henry on Leviticus 20:22–end

Jamieson-Fausset-Brown on Leviticus 20:24

Adam Clarke on Leviticus 20:24

John Gill on Leviticus 20:24

Dictionary and topics

Leviticus 20:24

Word by word — the Hebrew

Cross-references

Commentary

Matthew Henry on Leviticus 20:22–end

Jamieson-Fausset-Brown on Leviticus 20:24

Adam Clarke on Leviticus 20:24

John Gill on Leviticus 20:24

Dictionary and topics

John Calvin on Leviticus 20:18-24

Keil & Delitzsch on Leviticus 20:22-26

Tyndale Open Study Notes on Leviticus 20:24

Rashi on Leviticus 20:23