Leviticus 18:29
in Leviticus 18Therefore anyone who commits any of these abominations must be cut off from among his people.
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The same verse in ASV and KJV ▾
ASV
For whosoever shall do any of these abominations, even the souls that do them shall be cut off from among their people.
KJV
For whosoever shall commit any of these abominations, even the souls that commit them shall be cut off from among their people.
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This verse in Leviticus 18
Commentary
6 notes on this verseCut 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 offenses for which it is inflicted.
This site's exposition
For whosoever shall commit any of these abominations
on Leviticus 18:29-30
The penalty is to be cut off from among their people, and commentators read the phrase in more than one way, as a civil execution, as exclusion from the congregation, or as a judgment God carries out himself. The Mishnah, compiled about 200 AD, opens the tractate Kerithot by counting thirty six transgressions that carry this penalty, and most of that list is taken from this chapter. Verse 30 calls the practices abominable customs, which answers the word ordinances back at verse 3, and the chapter closes on I am the LORD your God, the sentence it opened with at verse 2.
The record, by era
The Puritans and the Awakening3 voices
For whosoever shall commit any of these abominations,....
5 Ye shall therefore keep my statutes, and my judgments: which if a man do, he shall live in them: I am the L ORD . After divers ceremonial institutions, God here returns to the enforcement of moral precepts. The former are still of use to us as types, the latter still binding as laws.
And justly; for, if any man defile the temple of God, him shall God destroy, 1 Cor. iii. Fleshly lusts war against the soul, and will certainly be the ruin of it if God's mercy and grace prevent not.
The Nineteenth Century1 voice
A commentator
Jamieson, Fausset & Brown1802–1910
Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible (1871)
proposed
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 [Le 18:7-16], as fully as to the six of consanguinity [Le 18:17-20]. Death is the punishment sternly denounced against all of them.
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The words behind it
12 Hebrew wordsEvery Hebrew word of this verse in the order it stands, with what it means and the door to its own study. The last column counts the times a word stands in the whole Bible: the rarer the word, the more the places it appears belong together.
| Hebrew | Sound | Meaning | Word study | In the Bible |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| כִּ֚י | ki | for | H3588 → | 4482 times |
| כָּל־ | kol- | every | H3605 → | 5413 times |
| אֲשֶׁ֣ר | ʾasher | [one] who | H834 → | 5497 times |
| יַעֲשֶׂ֔ה | yaaseh | he will do | H6213 → | 2628 times |
| מִכֹּ֥ל | mikol | any of all | H3605 → | 5413 times |
| הַתּוֹעֵב֖וֹת | hatoevot | the abominations | H8441 → | 117 times |
| הָאֵ֑לֶּה | haeleh | <the> these | H428 → | 746 times |
| וְנִכְרְת֛וּ | venikhretu | and they will be cut off | H3772 → | 288 times |
| הַנְּפָשׁ֥וֹת | hanefashot | the persons | H5315 → | 754 times |
| הָעֹשֹׂ֖ת | haosot | who do [them] | H6213 → | 2628 times |
| מִקֶּ֥רֶב | mikerev | from among | H7130 → | 227 times |
| עַמָּֽם׃ | ʾamam | people their | H5971 → | 1873 times |
כִּ֚יfor
kiH3588 →4482 times
כָּל־every
kol-H3605 →5413 times
אֲשֶׁ֣ר[one] who
ʾasherH834 →5497 times
יַעֲשֶׂ֔הhe will do
yaasehH6213 →2628 times
מִכֹּ֥לany of all
mikolH3605 →5413 times
הַתּוֹעֵב֖וֹתthe abominations
hatoevotH8441 →117 times
הָאֵ֑לֶּה<the> these
haelehH428 →746 times
וְנִכְרְת֛וּand they will be cut off
venikhretuH3772 →288 times
הַנְּפָשׁ֥וֹתthe persons
hanefashotH5315 →754 times
הָעֹשֹׂ֖תwho do [them]
haosotH6213 →2628 times
מִקֶּ֥רֶבfrom among
mikerevH7130 →227 times
עַמָּֽם׃people their
ʾamamH5971 →1873 times
A shaded row is a word that stands 400 times or fewer in the Bible.
The walk
8 stopsEach card is a verse this one points to, and under it the verses that one points to in turn. Where several paths arrive at the same place, that place is listed first: the text keeps returning to it.
Through
Leviticus 17:10If anyone from the house of Israel or a foreigner living among them eats any blood, I will set My face against that person and cut him off from among his people.
it leads to
- Leviticus 17:11
For the life of the flesh is in the blood, and I have given it to you to make atonement for your souls upon the altar; for it is the blood that makes atonement…
- Leviticus 3:17
This is a permanent statute for the generations to come, wherever you live: You must not eat any fat or any blood.”
- Deuteronomy 12:16
but you must not eat the blood; pour it on the ground like water.
- Deuteronomy 12:23
Only be sure not to eat the blood, because the blood is the life, and you must not eat the life with the meat.
- Leviticus 26:17
And I will set My face against you, so that you will be defeated by your enemies. Those who hate you will rule over you, and you will flee when no one pursues you.
- Leviticus 17:11
Through
Leviticus 20:6Whoever turns to mediums or spiritists to prostitute himself with them, I will also set My face against that person and cut him off from his people.
it leads to
- Leviticus 19:31
You must not turn to mediums or spiritists; do not seek them out, or you will be defiled by them. I am the LORD your God.
- Leviticus 19:31
Through
Exodus 12:15For seven days you must eat unleavened bread. On the first day you are to remove the leaven from your houses. Whoever eats anything leavened from the first day through the seventh must be…
it leads to
- Genesis 17:14
But if any male is not circumcised, he will be cut off from his people; he has broken My covenant.”
- Deuteronomy 16:3
You must not eat leavened bread with it; for seven days you are to eat with it unleavened bread, the bread of affliction, because you left the land of Egypt in haste—so that you…
- Genesis 17:14
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About Leviticus
This page draws on Jamieson, Fausset & Brown, Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible; John Gill, Exposition of the Old Testament; John Gill, Exposition of the Old Testament (1748-1763); John Wesley, Explanatory Notes upon the Old Testament and Matthew Henry, Commentary on the Whole Bible.