notes on Leviticus 20:14.
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From The Companion Bible.
Leviticus
20:14
| 14. And
if a °man take a °wife and her mother, it
is °wickedness: they shall be °burnt with fire,
both he
and they;
that there be no °wickedness among you. |
14.
man. Hebrew ish Appendix
14. iii.
wife and her mother. See chapter
18:17.
wickedness = disgraceful thing. Hebrew chesed
(Appendix 44. xiv).
Chesed is a Homonym: that is to say, another
word, spelt the same. It means (1) mercy, grace, goodness
(Genesis 24:12.
2Samuel
7:15.
1Chronicles
19:2.
2Chronicles
6:14.
Job 37:13.
Psalm 103:4,
8, 11,
etc. But here (2) it is chesed, a disgraceful or reproachful
thing. It is so taken here and in Proverbs 14:34.
burnt = burnt up: that is to say, in judgment.
Hebrew saraph. Appendix
43 I. viii.
note on Leviticus 18:17.
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From The Companion Bible.
Leviticus
18:17
| 17. Thou
shalt not uncover the nakedness of a woman and her daughter,
neither shalt thou take her son's daughter, or her daughter's
daughter, to uncover her nakedness; for they are
her near kinswomen: it
is °wickedness. |
17.
wickedness = lewdness, Hebrew zimmah. Appendix
44. xiii.
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