Leviticus 19:19-31

Matthew Henry's Complete Commentary - Leviticus 19:19-29

Here is, I. A law against mixtures, Lev. 19:19. God in the beginning made the cattle after their kind (Gen. 1:25), and we must acquiesce in the order of nature God hath established, believing that is best and sufficient, and not covet monsters. Add thou not unto his works, lest he reprove thee; for it is the excellency of the work of God that nothing can, without making it worse, be either put to it or taken from it, Eccl. 3:14. As what God has joined we must not separate, so what he has... read more

Matthew Henry

Matthew Henry's Complete Commentary - Leviticus 19:30-37

Here is, I. A law for the preserving of the honour of the time and place appropriated to the service of God, Lev. 19:30. This would be a means to secure them both from the idolatries and superstitions of the heathen and from all immoralities in conversation. 1. Sabbaths must be religiously observed, and not those times mentioned (Lev. 19:26) to which the heathen had a superstitious regard. 2. The sanctuary must be reverenced: great care must be taken to approach the tabernacle with that purity... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Leviticus 19:19

Ye shall keep my statutes ,.... Those which follow, and which are of a different sort from what are last mentioned, of a moral nature, and are planted in the heart, as Aben Ezra says; are agreeably to the law and light of nature, and part of the work of the law written on the heart, as the apostle calls it, Romans 2:15 ; but the following are of positive institution, and depend upon the will of the lawgiver, the reasons of which are not so apparent and manifest; and therefore Jarchi calls... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Leviticus 19:20

And whosoever lieth carnally with a woman ,.... Has carnal knowledge of her: a man and woman are expressed, signifying those that are of age, Aben Ezra observes, that according to the mystical exposition of these words, this same carnally lying is as of divers kinds, of a free man with a bondwoman, and so follows upon the above law and in connection with it: the woman is described as one that is a bondmaid ; either meaning a Canaanitish maid, as Jarchi, or an Israelitish one, as Aben... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Leviticus 19:21

He shall bring his trespass offering unto the Lord ,.... To the priest of the Lord, to offer it for him; he, and not she, as the Targum of Jonathan has it; See Gill on Leviticus 19:20 , unto the door of the tabernacle of the congregation ; where all offerings were to be brought, Leviticus 17:4 , even a ram for a trespass offering ; which was the usual creature for such a sacrifice, Leviticus 5:15 ; the woman was not obliged to bring any, she being a bondmaid; and so having... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Leviticus 19:22

And the priest shall make an atonement for him ,.... By offering his sacrifice for him, typical of the atoning sacrifice of Christ: with the ram of his trespass offering before the Lord ; presented before him at the door of the tabernacle, and offered up on his altar: for his sin which he hath done ; or "sinned", which is so expressed, according to Jarchi, to take in his sin, whether done ignorantly or presumptuously: and the sin which he hath done shall be forgiven him ; upon... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Leviticus 19:23

And when ye shall come into the land ,.... The land of Canaan, whither they were now going: and shall have planted all manner of trees for food ; such that brought forth fruit that was eatable, as figs, grapes, olives, &c.; so that all such trees as did not bear fruit fit for man's food came not under the following law; nor such as grew up of themselves and were not planted; nor such as were planted for any other use than for fruit; nor such as were planted by the Canaanites before... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Leviticus 19:24

But in the fourth year all the fruit thereof shall be holy ,.... Separated and devoted to the service of God, to be given to the priest, or to be bought again of him; wherefore the Targum of Jonathan adds, at the end of the verse, "redeemed from the priest", a redemption price being given to the priest; and, as Jarchi observes, as the tithe was not eaten without the walls of Jerusalem, but by redemption, even so likewise this: to praise the Lord withal ; for his abundant goodness in... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Leviticus 19:25

And in the fifth year shall ye eat of the fruit thereof ,.... And so in all succeeding years as long as the tree lasted and bore: that it may yield unto you the increase thereof ; may be so abundantly blessed, and produce so large an increase as to answer the three years' want of any fruit from it, and the dedication of the fruit of the fourth year to the Lord: I am the Lord your God ; who has promised this increase, is both able and faithful to make it good. read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Leviticus 19:26

Ye shall not eat anything with the blood ,.... Or upon, over, or by the blood F19 על הדם "super sanguine", Montanus, Munster; "super sanguinem", Fagius. , for this law seems different from that in Genesis 9:4 , and from those in Leviticus 3:17 ; and is variously interpreted by the Jewish writers; some of not eating flesh, the blood not being rightly let out of it, as not being thoroughly cleared of it F20 Joseph. Antiqu. l. 6. c. 6. sect. 4. T. Bab. Sanhedrin, fol. 63. 1.... read more

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