KING JAMES BIBLE · PCE
Leviticus 20:20–22
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Leviticus 20:20
20And if a man shall lie with his uncle’s wife, he hath uncovered his uncle’s nakedness: they shall bear their sin; they shall die childless.
20And if a man shall lie with his vncles wife, he hath vncouered his vncles nakednesse: they shall beare their sinne, they shall die childlesse.
Leviticus 20:21
21And if a man shall take his brother’s wife, it is an unclean thing: he hath uncovered his brother’s nakedness; they shall be childless.
21And if a man shall take his brothers wife, it is †an vncleane thing: hee hath vncouered his brothers nakednesse, they shall be childlesse.
- Heb. a separation.
Leviticus 20:22
22¶ Ye shall therefore keep all my statutes, and all my judgments, and do them: that the land, whither I bring you to dwell therein, spue you not out.
22¶ Ye shall therefore keepe all my *Statutes, and all my Iudgements, and doe them: that the lande whither I bring you to dwell therein, *spue you not out.
- Chap. 18.26.
- Chap. 18.25.
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DEFINED WORDS
Leviticus 20:20
A human being; an adult male; a person, husband, servant, or representative, according to context.
Meaning drawn from: KJV usage (PCE + 1611) · Webster 1828 · Strong 1890 (KJV alignment witness)
To recline, rest, remain, or be situated; also, to speak falsely or a falsehood.
Meaning drawn from: KJV usage (PCE + 1611)
The brother of one's father or mother.
Meaning drawn from: Webster 1828 · KJV usage (PCE + 1611)
Divested of a covering or clothing; laid open to view; made bare.
Meaning drawn from: Webster 1828
To carry, support, endure, produce, bring forth, or sustain, according to context.
Meaning drawn from: KJV usage (PCE + 1611) · Webster 1828 · Strong 1890 (KJV alignment witness)
Transgression of the law of God; an offence against God; or the sinful principle or condition, according to context.
Meaning drawn from: KJV usage (PCE) · Strong 1890 (KJV alignment witness) · Webster 1828 (independently verified transcription)
Without children or offspring.
Meaning drawn from: KJV usage (PCE + 1611)
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Leviticus 20:21
A human being; an adult male; a person, husband, servant, or representative, according to context.
Meaning drawn from: KJV usage (PCE + 1611) · Webster 1828 · Strong 1890 (KJV alignment witness)
To receive, seize, carry, accept, choose, or lay hold of, with the exact sense determined by context.
Meaning drawn from: Skeat 1893
A male sibling; a near kinsman; or a fellow member of a people or faith, according to context.
Meaning drawn from: KJV usage (PCE) · Strong 1890 (KJV alignment witness) · Webster 1828 (independently verified transcription)
Not clean or pure; filthy, morally defiled, or ceremonially impure, according to context.
Meaning drawn from: KJV usage (PCE + 1611) · Webster 1828 · Strong 1890 (KJV alignment witness)
Divested of a covering or clothing; laid open to view; made bare.
Meaning drawn from: Webster 1828
Without children or offspring.
Meaning drawn from: KJV usage (PCE + 1611)
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Leviticus 20:22
To hold, preserve, guard, observe, maintain, restrain, or continue, according to context.
Meaning drawn from: KJV usage (PCE + 1611)
Wholly, entirely, or altogether; every one or the whole amount, according to context.
Meaning drawn from: KJV usage (PCE + 1611)
The ground or earth; a country, territory, or region.
Meaning drawn from: KJV usage (PCE + 1611)
To what place, direction, point, or end.
Meaning drawn from: Webster 1828 · Webster 1828 (independently verified transcription) · Strong 1890 (KJV alignment witness) · KJV usage (PCE)
Outside, away from within, forth, absent, or no longer in a stated condition.
Meaning drawn from: KJV usage (PCE + 1611) · Webster 1828 · Strong 1890 (KJV alignment witness)
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From verse 20
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Open the full verse study14Thou shalt not uncover the nakedness of thy father’s brother, thou shalt not approach to his wife: she is thine aunt.
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Open the full verse study30Thus saith the Lord, Write ye this man childless, a man that shall not prosper in his days: for no man of his seed shall prosper, sitting upon the throne of David, and ruling any more in Judah.
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Open the full verse study19He shall neither have son nor nephew among his people, nor any remaining in his dwellings.
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Open the full verse study25Thus hath the Lord dealt with me in the days wherein he looked on me, to take away my reproach among men.
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Open the full verse study7And they had no child, because that Elisabeth was barren, and they both were now well stricken in years.
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Open the full verse study29For, behold, the days are coming, in the which they shall say, Blessed are the barren, and the wombs that never bare, and the paps which never gave suck.
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Open the full verse study13Let his posterity be cut off; and in the generation following let their name be blotted out.
From verse 21
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Open the full verse study16Thou shalt not uncover the nakedness of thy brother’s wife: it is thy brother’s nakedness.
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Open the full verse study3¶ For Herod had laid hold on John, and bound him, and put him in prison for Herodias’ sake, his brother Philip’s wife.
4For John said unto him, It is not lawful for thee to have her.
From verse 22
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Open the full verse study25And the land is defiled: therefore I do visit the iniquity thereof upon it, and the land itself vomiteth out her inhabitants.
26Ye shall therefore keep my statutes and my judgments, and shall not commit any of these abominations; neither any of your own nation, nor any stranger that sojourneth among you:
27(For all these abominations have the men of the land done, which were before you, and the land is defiled;)
28That the land spue not you out also, when ye defile it, as it spued out the nations that were before you.
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Open the full verse study27And I will put my spirit within you, and cause you to walk in my statutes, and ye shall keep my judgments, and do them.
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Open the full verse study4Ye shall do my judgments, and keep mine ordinances, to walk therein: I am the Lord your God.
5Ye shall therefore keep my statutes, and my judgments: which if a man do, he shall live in them: I am the Lord.
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Open the full verse study45That they might observe his statutes, and keep his laws. Praise ye the Lord.
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Open the full verse study145I cried with my whole heart; hear me, O Lord: I will keep thy statutes.
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Open the full verse study160Thy word is true from the beginning: and every one of thy righteous judgments endureth for ever.
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Open the full verse study20My soul breaketh for the longing that it hath unto thy judgments at all times.
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Open the full verse study80Let my heart be sound in thy statutes; that I be not ashamed.
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Open the full verse study25The Lord shall cause thee to be smitten before thine enemies: thou shalt go out one way against them, and flee seven ways before them: and shalt be removed into all the kingdoms of the earth.
26And thy carcase shall be meat unto all fowls of the air, and unto the beasts of the earth, and no man shall fray them away.
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Open the full verse study45These are the testimonies, and the statutes, and the judgments, which Moses spake unto the children of Israel, after they came forth out of Egypt,
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Open the full verse study1AND Moses called all Israel, and said unto them, Hear, O Israel, the statutes and judgments which I speak in your ears this day, that ye may learn them, and keep, and do them.
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Open the full verse study1NOW these are the judgments which thou shalt set before them.
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Open the full verse study8Yea, in the way of thy judgments, O Lord, have we waited for thee; the desire of our soul is to thy name, and to the remembrance of thee.
9With my soul have I desired thee in the night; yea, with my spirit within me will I seek thee early: for when thy judgments are in the earth, the inhabitants of the world will learn righteousness.
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Open the full verse study37Therefore shall ye observe all my statutes, and all my judgments, and do them: I am the Lord.
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Open the full verse study33And I will scatter you among the heathen, and will draw out a sword after you: and your land shall be desolate, and your cities waste.
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Open the full verse study171My lips shall utter praise, when thou hast taught me thy statutes.
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Open the full verse study175Let my soul live, and it shall praise thee; and let thy judgments help me.
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Open the full verse study8The statutes of the Lord are right, rejoicing the heart: the commandment of the Lord is pure, enlightening the eyes.
9The fear of the Lord is clean, enduring for ever: the judgments of the Lord are true and righteous altogether.
10More to be desired are they than gold, yea, than much fine gold: sweeter also than honey and the honeycomb.
11Moreover by them is thy servant warned: and in keeping of them there is great reward.
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Open the full verse study106I have sworn, and I will perform it, that I will keep thy righteous judgments.
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Open the full verse study164Seven times a day do I praise thee because of thy righteous judgments.
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