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| 1 And Jehovah speaketh unto Moses, saying, |
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| 2 'Speak unto the sons of Israel, and thou hast said unto them, I [am] Jehovah your God; |
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| 3 according to the work of the land of Egypt in which ye have dwelt ye do not, and according to the work of the land of Canaan whither I am bringing you in, ye do not, and in their statutes ye walk not. |
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| 4 'My judgments ye do, and My statutes ye keep, to walk in them; I [am] Jehovah your God; |
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| 5 and ye have kept My statutes and My judgments which man doth and liveth in them; I [am] Jehovah. |
Which if a man do – Perfectly. R2728:2
Which no imperfect man could do, but which the Lord Jesus did do. R1725:2, R5046:2
Shall live In them – Have everlasting life as a result. R2728:2, R4595:2, R5128:1, R5285:5; OV118:2
Live under proper conditions. Q370:4, Q197:T
The man Christ Jesus was the one for whom this provision was made. R5046:3, R5342:4
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| 6 'None of you unto any relation of his flesh doth draw near to uncover nakedness; I [am] Jehovah. |
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| 7 'The nakedness of thy father and the nakedness of thy mother thou dost not uncover, she [is] thy mother; thou dost not uncover her nakedness. |
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| 8 'The nakedness of the wife of thy father thou dost not uncover; it [is] the nakedness of thy father. |
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| 9 'The nakedness of thy sister, daughter of thy father, or daughter of thy mother, born at home or born without; thou dost not uncover their nakedness. |
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| 10 'The nakedness of thy son's daughter, or of thy daughter's daughter: thou dost not uncover their nakedness; for theirs [is] thy nakedness. |
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| 11 'The nakedness of a daughter of thy father's wife, begotten of thy father, she [is] thy sister; thou dost not uncover her nakedness. |
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| 12 'The nakedness of a sister of thy father thou dost not uncover; she [is] a relation of thy father. |
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| 13 'The nakedness of thy mother's sister thou dost not uncover; for she [is] thy mother's relation. |
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| 14 'The nakedness of thy father's brother thou dost not uncover; unto his wife thou dost not draw near; she [is] thine aunt. |
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| 15 'The nakedness of thy daughter-in-law thou dost not uncover; she [is] thy son's wife; thou dost not uncover her nakedness. |
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| 16 'The nakedness of thy brother's wife thou dost not uncover; it [is] thy brother's nakedness. |
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| 17 'The nakedness of a woman and her daughter thou dost not uncover; her son's daughter, and her daughter's daughter thou dost not take to uncover her nakedness; they [are] her relations; it [is] wickedness. |
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| 18 'And a woman unto another thou dost not take, to be an adversary, to uncover her nakedness beside her, in her life. |
Beside the other – Law against polygamy. R2016:3
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| 19 'And unto a woman in the separation of her uncleanness thou dost not draw near to uncover her nakedness. |
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| 20 'And unto the wife of thy fellow thou dost not give thy seed of copulation, for uncleanness with her. |
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| 21 'And of thy seed thou dost not give to pass over to the Molech; nor dost thou pollute the name of thy God; I [am] Jehovah. |
To Molech – Type of the misrepresentation of God, worshipped by those who endorse the eternal torment theory. R2360:1, R3464:6
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| 22 'And with a male thou dost not lie as one lieth with a woman; abomination it [is]. |
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| 23 'And with any beast thou dost not give thy copulation, for uncleanness with it; and a woman doth not stand before a beast to lie down with it; confusion it [is]. |
It is confusion – God prohibits any mixture or blending of natures, including human with angelic. HG724:6
The unlawful union of the Church of Rome (woman) with the Roman empire (beast) resulted in Babylon (confusion). R472:6, R45:1
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| 24 'Ye are not defiled with all these, for with all these have the nations been defiled which I am sending away from before you; |
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| 25 and the land is defiled, and I charge its iniquity upon it, and the land vomiteth out its inhabitants: |
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| 26 and ye ye have kept My statutes and My judgments, and do not [any] of all these abominations, the native and the sojourner who is sojourning in your midst, |
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| 27 (for all these abominations have the men of the land done who [are] before you, and the land is defiled), |
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| 28 and the land doth not vomit you out in your defiling it, as it hath vomited out the nation which [is] before you; |
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| 29 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; |
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| 30 and ye have kept My charge, so as not to do [any] of the abominable statutes which have been done before you, and ye do not defile yourselves with them; I [am] Jehovah your God.' |
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