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21 * And if a man: ſhall take his brothers wife 4, it
1 : + an unclean thing e : he hath uncovered his brothers
nakedneſs ; they ſhall be childleſs. | : 4 Except in the caſe allowed by. God, Deur: 25: 5. e An abomi-
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©d by Yhis werd ; Heb. & ſeparation, or removing, 3.e. 2
thing deſerving ſeparation or excluſion from ſociety with others ; or ;
a thing to be removed out of ſight or out of the world.
22 Ye ſhall therefore keep all my Þ ftatutes, and all my judgments, and do them : that the land whither I bring you to dwell therein, * ſpue you not out.
23 Andyeſhallnot walk in the manners of the nation | which I call out before you : for they committed all theſe things, and * therefore I abhorred them.
' 24 But I have ſaid unto you, Ye {hall 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 f.
f By my ſpecial grace and favour vouchſafed to you above all peo- ple, in"glorious and miraculous works wrought for you and among you, and in ordinances and ether ſingular priviledges and bleſſings
imparted to you, all which calls for your ſpecial love and ſervice.
25 Ye hall therefore put difference between clean beaſts; and unclean, and between unclean fowls, and clean: and ye ſhall nor make your ſouls abominable by
| beaft, or by fowl, or by any manner.of living thing
that | creepeth on the ground, which I have ſeparated
from you as unclean g. g (i. e. ) As things which by my ſentence I have made unclean,
.and which ye muſt avoid as ſuch.
26 And ye ſhall be holy unto me : * for Ithe LORD am holy, and have ſevered you from other people, that
ye ſhould be mine. : 27 * A man alſo, or woman that hath a familiar ſpirit,
or that is a wizard, ſhall ſurely be put to death : they ſhall ſtone them with ſtones : their blood ſhall be upon them,
CHAP. XXL.
Prieffs muſt not defile themſelvas, in mourning over the Dead: Caſes excepted,
1 amunn== 6, Nor marry with a Whore, Profane, or Divorced Woman, + qo, 8 His Daughter, if a Whore, to be burnt with fire, 9. The High Prieſt muſt in no caſe defile himſelf with the Dead, 10 === 12. Muſt marry
a Virgin of his People, 13<==15. Perſons having bodily defetts, allowed 10 eat of the holy things, but not 80 ſerve in the Tabernacle, or offer ro Gad, 16 ———— 24
"A N D the LORD faid unto Moſes, Speak unto the A Priefts, the ſons of Aaron, and ſay unto them,
'* There ſhall none be defiled for the dead a among his
ople: | 19 fs wit, by toucking ofthe Dead Body, or abiding in the ſame houſe with it, or aſſiſting ar bis Funerals, or cating of the Funeral feaſt. "The reaſon of this law is evident, becauſe by ſuch pollution they were excluded from converſe with men, to whom by their funAion they were to be ſerviceable upon all occaſions, and from the handling of holy things, Num: 6: 6: & 19+ 11, 14, 16. Deut: 26; 14: Hoſt9:4. And God would hereby reach them,and inthem all ſucceſſive Minifiers of holy things, that they ought ſo entirely to give them- ſelves to the ſervice of God, that they ought to renounce all expreſſions of natural afe&iens, and all worldly employments fo far as they are impediments to the diſcharge of their holy ſervices; See Lev: 10: 3,7: Deut33:9: Mat: 8:22. Hereby alſo God would beget in the people 2 greater reverence tothe Prieſtly funQtion, and oblige the Prieſt to a
greater degree of ftriftneſs and purity than other men.
2 But for his kin that 1s near unto him: b, that 3s for his mother, and for his father, and for his ſon, and for
his daughter, and for his brother c.
þ Under which general expreſſion kis wife ſeems. to be compre- hended; though ſhe be not expreſſed in the following inſtances, be- cauſe from the mention of others more remote it was eaſie to gather that ſo near a relation was not excluded. And hence it is nored as a peculiar and extraordinary caſe, that Ezekze!, who was a Prieſt, was forbidden to mourn for kis wife, Ezek:24: 16, &c. Theſe exceptions God here makes in condeſcention to humane infirmity, becauſe in ſuch caſes it was very hard to reſtrain 'the affetions. But this Jowance concerns only the Inferiour Prieſt, not the High Prieſt, | c Obj. Eleazar and Ithamar are forbidden to mourn
for their brethren,. Nadab and Abihu. Anj. r. That caſe was ſingular,
- both becauſe ſuch a mourning might ſeemto be a cenſure to God's
i them, and becauſe they were then in the aQtual exe- beet 04 yt 20 office and in their initiation to it, and they were the only. perſons, beſides Aaron, that could perform that work, and therefore their attendance upon it was more neceſſary than it would be inafcer-times and other caſes. 2+ The latter law can either limit or enlarge the former at the pleaſure of the Lawgiver. And this Jaw-may ſeem to be added, leſt that protubition Lev: 10; ſhould be taken for a general rule. ON ER ; . 2 And for his ſiſter 4a virgin, that isnigh untohim e, which hath had no husband f ; for her may he be defiled. d Either by father, or mother. e (i.e.) oy nearneſs not of relation, ( for that might ſeem a needleſs addition but of habitation, 5. e. one not yet cur off from the family, as it follows. f For if ſhe was married, ſhe m_ of another family, and under her husbands cial care in thoſe matters. : : . TT But || he ſhall nor defile donde: cakeg a chief man | his people g, to prophane himlelt. I PIT Pe NE oe or ruler, &c. for ſuch not only
ſeing he is 4 ch: : a Bok PrER but orhers alſo of the Inferiour Prieſts were. And
"LEVITICUS.
{ the law here added concerns all.
| upon whoſe head * theanointing oyl was poured s, and