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The LORD spoke to Moses, saying, “Moreover, you shall tell the children of Israel, ‘Anyone of the children of Israel, or of the strangers who live as foreigners in Israel, who gives any of his offspring to Molech shall surely be put to death. The people of the land shall stone that person with stones. See also: Leviticus 20:27Leviticus 24:14Leviticus 18:21I also will set my face against that person, and will cut him off from among his people, because he has given of his offspring to Molech, to defile my sanctuary, and to profane my holy name. See also: Leviticus 18:21Ezekiel 23:38-39Leviticus 17:10If the people of the land all hide their eyes from that person when he gives of his offspring to Molech, and don’t put him to death, See also: Deuteronomy 17:2-5Acts 17:301 Samuel 3:13-14then I will set my face against that man and against his family, and will cut him off, and all who play the prostitute after him to play the prostitute with Molech, from among their people. See also: Psalms 106:39Hosea 2:13Leviticus 17:7“‘The person that turns to those who are mediums and wizards, to play the prostitute after them, I will even set my face against that person, and will cut him off from among his people. See also: Leviticus 19:31Isaiah 8:191 Chronicles 10:13-14“‘Sanctify yourselves therefore, and be holy; for I am the LORD your God. See also: Leviticus 11:44Leviticus 19:21 Peter 1:15-16You shall keep my statutes, and do them. I am the LORD who sanctifies you. See also: Exodus 31:13James 1:221 Thessalonians 5:23“‘For everyone who curses his father or his mother shall surely be put to death. He has cursed his father or his mother. His blood shall be upon himself. See also: Exodus 21:17Mark 7:10Deuteronomy 27:16“‘The man who commits adultery with another man’s wife, even he who commits adultery with his neighbor’s wife, the adulterer and the adulteress shall surely be put to death. See also: John 8:4-5Deuteronomy 22:22-24Deuteronomy 5:18“‘The man who lies with his father’s wife has uncovered his father’s nakedness. Both of them shall surely be put to death. Their blood shall be upon themselves. See also: Deuteronomy 27:23Deuteronomy 27:20Leviticus 18:7-8“‘If a man lies with his daughter-in-law, both of them shall surely be put to death. They have committed a perversion. Their blood shall be upon themselves. See also: Leviticus 18:15Leviticus 18:23Genesis 38:18“‘If a man lies with a male, as with a woman, both of them have committed an abomination. They shall surely be put to death. Their blood shall be upon themselves. See also: 1 Corinthians 6:9Leviticus 18:22Jude 1:7“‘If a man takes a wife and her mother, it is wickedness. They shall be burned with fire, both he and they, that there may be no wickedness among you. See also: Leviticus 18:17Deuteronomy 27:23Joshua 7:15“‘If a man lies with an animal, he shall surely be put to death; and you shall kill the animal. See also: Leviticus 18:23Deuteronomy 27:21Exodus 22:19“‘If a woman approaches any animal and lies with it, you shall kill the woman and the animal. They shall surely be put to death. Their blood shall be upon them. See also: Exodus 21:32Hebrews 12:20Exodus 19:13“‘If a man takes his sister—his father’s daughter, or his mother’s daughter—and sees her nakedness, and she sees his nakedness, it is a shameful thing. They shall be cut off in the sight of the children of their people. He has uncovered his sister’s nakedness. He shall bear his iniquity. See also: Leviticus 18:9Deuteronomy 27:222 Samuel 13:12“‘If a man lies with a woman having her monthly period, and uncovers her nakedness, he has made her fountain naked, and she has uncovered the fountain of her blood. Both of them shall be cut off from among their people. See also: Leviticus 15:24Leviticus 18:19Ezekiel 22:10“‘You shall not uncover the nakedness of your mother’s sister, nor of your father’s sister, for he has made his close relative naked. They shall bear their iniquity. See also: Leviticus 18:6Exodus 6:20Leviticus 18:12-30If a man lies with his uncle’s wife, he has uncovered his uncle’s nakedness. They shall bear their sin. They shall die childless. See also: Leviticus 18:14Job 18:19Jeremiah 22:30“‘If a man takes his brother’s wife, it is an impurity. He has uncovered his brother’s nakedness. They shall be childless. See also: Leviticus 18:16Matthew 14:3-4“‘You shall therefore keep all my statutes and all my ordinances, and do them, that the land where I am bringing you to dwell may not vomit you out. See also: Leviticus 18:25-28Ezekiel 36:27Psalms 119:80You shall not walk in the customs of the nation which I am casting out before you; for they did all these things, and therefore I abhorred them. See also: Deuteronomy 9:5Leviticus 18:24Leviticus 18:3But I have said to you, “You shall inherit their land, and I will give it to you to possess it, a land flowing with milk and honey.” I am the LORD your God, who has separated you from the peoples. See also: Deuteronomy 14:2Deuteronomy 7:6Exodus 3:17“‘You shall therefore make a distinction between the clean animal and the unclean, and between the unclean fowl and the clean. You shall not make yourselves abominable by animal, or by bird, or by anything with which the ground teems, which I have separated from you as unclean for you. See also: Deuteronomy 14:3-21Leviticus 11:1-47Acts 10:11-15You shall be holy to me, for I, the LORD, am holy, and have set you apart from the peoples, that you should be mine. See also: 1 Peter 1:15-16Leviticus 20:7Leviticus 20:24“‘A man or a woman that is a medium or is a wizard shall surely be put to death. They shall be stoned with stones. Their blood shall be upon themselves.’” See also: Leviticus 19:31Leviticus 20:61 Samuel 28:7-9
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Notes · Haydock (1859, public domain)19 notes
Notes in English 19th-century Catholic commentary by Fr. George Leo Haydock, shown as published.
These notes keep the polemics of their time: some speak harshly of the Jewish people or of other Christians. The Church teaches otherwise today. The Jewish people may not be blamed for the death of Christ (Nostra Aetate 4; Catechism 597–598), and Christians of other communities are our brothers and sisters in the Lord (Unitatis Redintegratio 3). Christian unity
Leviticus 20:2
Ver. 2. Moloch. See C. xviii. 21.
↑ 2Leviticus 20:3
Ver. 3. I will thus execute vengeance upon him by the hands of his people; and, in case they neglect it, or the crime be secret, I will surely punish the guilty person, and all who may have consented to his wickedness, v. 5. H. --- Face: Chal. "wrath," which manifests itself on the countenance. D.
↑ 3Leviticus 20:4
Ver. 4. My commandment: Heb. "If the people hide their face not to see:" (C.) or Sept. "look over on purpose, and neglect the man who has given of his seed to the ruler."
↑ 4Leviticus 20:6
Ver. 6. Them. To have recourse to them, is to deal with the devil and commit idolatry. See C.
xix. 31.
↑ 6Leviticus 20:8
Ver. 8. Sanctify you, and order you to keep at a distance from the impure worship of other nations. H.
↑ 8Leviticus 20:9
Ver. 9. Die. The Rabbins say, by being strangled, when nothing farther is added: but if the following addition be made, stoning is understood. But their authority is not of much weight, and is contradicted, v. 2. Stoning was the most usual method of putting to death in the days of Moses, and is commonly meant; or perhaps the judges might determine the mode of execution. --- Upon him. He deserves to die. He can blame no other. See Matt. xvii. 25. C. --- For greater infamy, the person to be stoned or hung, was stripped of his clothes. T.
--- The punishment of lapidation (v. 2) seems to be designed for the following times, as it was for adultery. Deut. xxii. 24. M.
John. viii. 5.
↑ 9Leviticus 20:10
Ver. 10. Adulteress. Philo (de Joseph.) says, whoever discovered a man in the very act, might kill him; and the Roman law allowed the same liberty, impune necato. But God requires a juridical process, and witnesses, as we see in the case of Susanna, (Dan. xiii.) and in that of the woman who was brought to our Saviour. One witness might authorize a person to put his wife away, and if he then retained her, he was esteemed a fool. Prov. xviii. 23. But more witnesses were requisite before she could be put to death. They put their hands on the heads of the guilty, thus taking their blood upon themselves, if they accused them wrongfully. Solon allowed the husband to kill the adulterer. The woman was not permitted to wear any ornaments, or to enter any temple afterwards. If she did, any one might tear her clothes, and beat, but not kill her.
↑ 10Leviticus 20:11
Ver. 11. Father. See C. xviii. 8. It is supposed that the father was dead, otherwise the punishment would probably be greater than for adultery. The Sam. "with the wife of his father's brother." C.
↑ 11Leviticus 20:12
Ver. 12. Crime. Heb. tebel, "confusion," the same term which is used in speaking of bestiality, (C. xviii. 23,) though the latter crime be more enormous.
H.
↑ 12Leviticus 20:14
Ver. 14. Alive, is not in the original; but must be understood. The Rabbins say melted lead was to be poured down the throats of the guilty. The words of Moses seem rather to refer to external fire. C. --- With them, if they both gave their consent to the crime. M.
↑ 14Leviticus 20:15
Ver. 15. The beast also ye shall kill. The killing of the beast was for the greater horror of the crime, and to prevent the remembrance of such abomination. Ch.
--- The beast was to be killed with clubs; the man was stoned to death.
Jonathan.
↑ 15Leviticus 20:16
Ver. 16. Them. This monstrous abomination, teras, as Herodotus, an eye-witness calls it, was not unknown to the Egyptians. Gunaiki tragos emisgeto; (B. ii. 46,) nor to other nations. Apul. Met.
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↑ 16Leviticus 20:17
Ver. 17. A crime. Heb. chesed, commonly signifies an act of piety or goodness, as if Moses intended to insinuate that such marriages were at first lawful.
Thalmud. Seld. Jur. v. 8.) But a softer term is used to denote a great impiety, as the Hebrews say to bless, when they mean to curse, or to blaspheme; (C.) and the Greeks call the furies Eumenides, or "the good-natured." ---
One another's. Heb. "He hath uncovered his sister's," &c. Whether they saw what was indecent or not, if they admitted of any unlawful commerce, they were to be stoned to death. H.
↑ 17Leviticus 20:18
Ver. 18. People, if the action become public; otherwise the man may be purified. C. xv. 24. This intemperance was by a positive law declared a mortal offence in the Jews, though in itself it might be venial. Sanchez ix. 21. The text shews that the woman here gives her consent. --- And she open. Hence she deserves to die, for exposing herself and her children to great danger. H.
↑ 18Leviticus 20:19
Ver. 19. Flesh, or relation. M.
↑ 19Leviticus 20:20
Ver. 20. Children. The Sadducees read, "they shall die naked." The present Heb. has simply,
"they shall be without children;" their offspring shall be illegitimate. S. Aug. q.
76. God will not bless their marriage. "Such we know can have no children." S.
Greg. q. 6. S. Aug. Apost.
Anglorum. The guilty shall be slain without delay. Grot. C.
↑ 20Leviticus 20:24
Ver. 24. Honey. Most fertile and delicious. M.
↑ 24Leviticus 20:26
Ver. 26. Mine. This is the reason of these different prescriptions, that they may know the dignity to which they have been raised, and may avoid the manners of the profane. C.
↑ 26Leviticus 20:27
Ver. 27. Spirit. Heb. ob, means also a bottle. See C. xix. 31. If those who consult such people be guilty, the authors of the delusion deserve death still more. H.
--- The spirit of python is no other than the spirit of the devil, or of Apollo, who was called Pythius, on account of his having slain the serpent python. His oracles were in great request, as he was supposed to know the secrets of futurity. C.
↑ 27License: Notes by Fr. George Leo Haydock (1774–1849), from the Douay-Rheims Bible with Haydock's commentary (first ed. Thomas Haydock, Manchester/Dublin, 1811–1814; New York: Edward Dunigan & Brother, 1859); New Testament notes compiled with Fr. Benedict Rayment. Public domain. Digital text: "The Haydock Bible", Internet Archive (archive.org/details/TheHaydockBible), uploaded 2011 under the Public Domain Mark. · Credits and licenses