Leviticus 19:29
“Do not prostitute thy daughter, to cause her to be a whore; lest the land fall to whoredom, and the land become full of wickedness.”
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Gill's ExpositionBaptist theologian, 1697–1771
Do not prostitute thy daughter, to cause her to be a whore,.... Not by delaying to marry her, which is the sense the…
Adam ClarkeMethodist theologian, 1762–1832
Do not prostitute thy daughter - This was a very frequent custom, and with examples of it writers of antiquity abound.…
Matthew HenryNonconformist minister, 1662–1714Leviticus 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…
Cambridge BibleAcademic commentary, 1882–1921
For -the land" in the sense of its inhabitants, cp. Lev 18:25; Jdg 18:30; Hos 1:2.
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