Leviticus - 18:29



29 "'For whoever shall do any of these abominations, even the souls that do them shall be cut off from among their people.

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Explanation and meaning of Leviticus 18:29.

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For whosoever shall commit any of these abominations, even the souls that commit them shall be cut off from among their people.
For whosoever shall do any of these abominations, even the souls that do them shall be cut off from among their people.
Every soul that shall commit any of these abominations, shall perish from the midst of his people.
For whoever committeth any of these abominations, the souls that commit them shall be cut off from among their people.
For whoever shall commit any of these abominations, even the souls that commit them shall be cut off from among their people.
for any one who doth any of all these abominations, even the persons who are doing so, have been cut off from the midst of their people;
For all those who do any of these disgusting things will be cut off from among their people.
Quisquis enim fecerit ex omnibus abominationibus istis, animae quae fecerint excidentur e medio populi sui.

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Scholarly Analysis and Interpretation.

For whosoever shall commit any of these abominations, even the souls that commit [them] shall (p) be cut off from among their people.
(p) Either by the civil sword or by some plague that God will send upon such.

For whosoever shall commit any of these abominations,.... Before particularly forbid, any of them, be it which it will, they all being very heinous and vile, and especially these last mentioned:
even the souls that commit them; whether male or female, as Jarchi observes; for the above things concern them both for the most part, however some one, and some another; and though most, if not all the said crimes are committed by the members of the body, yet since under the influence and direction of the soul, the commission of them is attributed to that, and the punishment threatened respects both:
shall be cut off from among the people; be removed from their church state, and deprived of ecclesiastical privileges, and from their civil state, and reckoned no more of the commonwealth of Israel; and if known and convicted, to be punished by the civil magistrate, and if not, by the immediate hand of God.

the souls that commit them shall be cut off--This strong denunciatory language is applied to all the crimes specified in the chapter without distinction: to incest as truly as to bestiality, and to the eleven cases of affinity [Leviticus 18:7-16], as fully as to the six of consanguinity [Leviticus 18:17-20]. Death is the punishment sternly denounced against all of them. No language could be more explicit or universal; none could more strongly indicate intense loathing and abhorrence.

Cut off - This phrase therefore of cutting off, is to be understood variously, either of ecclesiastical, or civil punishment, according to the differing natures of the offences for which it is inflicted.

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