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their blood <i>shall be</i> upon them.</div><div id="jump">Jump to: <a href="/commentaries/barnes/leviticus/20.htm" title="Barnes' Notes">Barnes</a> • <a href="/commentaries/benson/leviticus/20.htm" title="Benson Commentary">Benson</a> • <a href="/commentaries/illustrator/leviticus/20.htm" title="Biblical Illustrator">BI</a> • <a href="/commentaries/calvin/leviticus/20.htm" title="Calvin's Commentaries">Calvin</a> • <a href="/commentaries/cambridge/leviticus/20.htm" title="Cambridge Bible">Cambridge</a> • <a href="/commentaries/clarke/leviticus/20.htm" title="Clarke's Commentary">Clarke</a> • <a href="/commentaries/darby/leviticus/20.htm" title="Darby's Bible Synopsis">Darby</a> • <a href="/commentaries/ellicott/leviticus/20.htm" title="Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers">Ellicott</a> • <a href="/commentaries/expositors/leviticus/20.htm" title="Expositor's Bible">Expositor's</a> • <a href="/commentaries/edt/leviticus/20.htm" title="Expositor's Dictionary">Exp Dct</a> • <a href="/commentaries/gaebelein/leviticus/20.htm" title="Gaebelein's Annotated Bible">Gaebelein</a> • <a href="/commentaries/gsb/leviticus/20.htm" title="Geneva Study Bible">GSB</a> • <a href="/commentaries/gill/leviticus/20.htm" title="Gill's Bible Exposition">Gill</a> • <a href="/commentaries/gray/leviticus/20.htm" title="Gray's Concise">Gray</a> • <a href="/commentaries/guzik/leviticus/20.htm" title="Guzik Bible Commentary">Guzik</a> • <a href="/commentaries/haydock/leviticus/20.htm" title="Haydock Catholic Bible Commentary">Haydock</a> • <a href="/commentaries/hastings/leviticus/16-22.htm" title="Hastings Great Texts">Hastings</a> • <a href="/commentaries/homiletics/leviticus/20.htm" title="Pulpit Homiletics">Homiletics</a> • <a href="/commentaries/jfb/leviticus/20.htm" title="Jamieson-Fausset-Brown">JFB</a> • <a href="/commentaries/kad/leviticus/20.htm" title="Keil and Delitzsch OT">KD</a> • <a href="/commentaries/kelly/leviticus/20.htm" title="Kelly Commentary">Kelly</a> • <a href="/commentaries/king-en/leviticus/20.htm" title="Kingcomments Bible Studies">King</a> • <a href="/commentaries/lange/leviticus/20.htm" title="Lange Commentary">Lange</a> • <a href="/commentaries/maclaren/leviticus/20.htm" title="MacLaren Expositions">MacLaren</a> • <a href="/commentaries/mhc/leviticus/20.htm" title="Matthew Henry Concise">MHC</a> • <a href="/commentaries/mhcw/leviticus/20.htm" title="Matthew Henry Full">MHCW</a> • <a href="/commentaries/parker/leviticus/20.htm" title="The People's Bible by Joseph Parker">Parker</a> • <a href="/commentaries/poole/leviticus/20.htm" title="Matthew Poole">Poole</a> • <a href="/commentaries/pulpit/leviticus/20.htm" title="Pulpit Commentary">Pulpit</a> • <a href="/commentaries/sermon/leviticus/20.htm" title="Sermon Bible">Sermon</a> • <a href="/commentaries/sco/leviticus/20.htm" title="Scofield Reference Notes">SCO</a> • <a href="/commentaries/ttb/leviticus/20.htm" title="Through The Bible">TTB</a> • <a href="/commentaries/wes/leviticus/20.htm" title="Wesley's Notes">WES</a> • <a href="#tsk" title="Treasury of Scripture Knowledge">TSK</a></div><div id="leftbox"><div class="padleft"><div class="comtype">EXPOSITORY (ENGLISH BIBLE)</div><div class="vheading2"><a href="/commentaries/ellicott/leviticus/20.htm">Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers</a></div>(12) <span class= "bld">With his daughter in law.</span>—See Notes on <a href="/leviticus/18-15.htm" title="You shall not uncover the nakedness of your daughter in law: she is your son's wife; you shall not uncover her nakedness.">Leviticus 18:15</a>.<p><div class="vheading2"><a href="/commentaries/benson/leviticus/20.htm">Benson Commentary</a></div><span class="bld"><a href="/leviticus/20-12.htm" title="And if a man lie with his daughter in law, both of them shall surely be put to death: they have worked confusion; their blood shall be on them.">Leviticus 20:12</a></span>. <span class="ital">Confusion — </span>By perverting the order which God hath appointed, and making the same offspring both his own child and his grand-child.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><a name="mhc" id="mhc"></a><div class="vheading2"><a href="/commentaries/mhc/leviticus/20.htm">Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary</a></div>20:10-27 These verses repeat what had been said before, but it was needful there should be line upon line. What praises we owe to God that he has taught the evil of sin, and the sure way of deliverance from it! May we have grace to adorn the doctrine of God our Saviour in all things; may we have no fellowship with unfruitful works of darkness, but reprove them.<a name="bar" id="bar"></a><div class="vheading2"><a href="/commentaries/barnes/leviticus/20.htm">Barnes' Notes on the Bible</a></div>Defile my sanctuary - i. e. pollute the people as identified with their sanctuary. <a name="jfb" id="jfb"></a><div class="vheading2"><a href="/commentaries/jfb/leviticus/20.htm">Jamieson-Fausset-Brown Bible Commentary</a></div>7-19. Sanctify yourselves therefore, and be ye holy—The minute specification of the incestuous and unnatural crimes here enumerated shows their sad prevalence amongst the idolatrous nations around, and the extreme proneness of the Israelites to follow the customs of their neighbors. It is to be understood, that, whenever mention is made that the offender was "to be put to death" without describing the mode, stoning is meant. The only instance of another form of capital punishment occurs in Le 20:14, that of being burnt with fire; and yet it is probable that even here death was first inflicted by stoning, and the body of the criminal afterwards consumed by fire (Jos 7:15).<div class="vheading2"><a href="/commentaries/poole/leviticus/20.htm">Matthew Poole's Commentary</a></div> By perverting the order which God hath appointed, and mixing the blood which God would have separated, and making the same offspring both his own immediate child and his grandchild, <span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="bld">they have wrought confusion.</span> <span class="p"><br /><br /></span><a name="gil" id="gil"></a><div class="vheading2"><a href="/commentaries/gill/leviticus/20.htm">Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible</a></div>If a man lie with his daughter in law,.... His son's wife, whether in the lifetime of his son, or after his death, or whether she was espoused or married, according to the above tradition (f): <p>both of them shall surely be put to death; it being a breach of the law in <a href="/leviticus/18-15.htm">Leviticus 18:15</a>; and this is the penalty annexed to it, even death: <p>they have wrought confusion: have been guilty of a shocking and shameful mixture, as Jarchi and Ben Gersom, as well as confounded the degrees of relation and affinity: <p>their blood shall be upon them; it being a capital crime, their, blood shall be shed for it; they shall be found guilty of death by stoning, as the Targum of Jonathan. <p>(f) Misn. ut supra. (Sanhedrin, c. 7. sect. 4.) <a name="gsb" id="gsb"></a><div class="vheading2"><a href="/commentaries/gsb/leviticus/20.htm">Geneva Study Bible</a></div><span class="cverse2">And if a man lie with his daughter in law, both of them shall surely be put to death: they have wrought confusion; their blood shall be upon them.</span></div></div><div id="centbox"><div class="padcent"><div class="comtype">EXEGETICAL (ORIGINAL LANGUAGES)</div>Leviticus 20:12<a name="kad" id="kad"></a><div class="vheading2"><a href="/commentaries/kad/leviticus/20.htm">Keil and Delitzsch Biblical Commentary on the Old Testament</a></div>Whoever cursed father or mother was to be punished with death (<a href="/leviticus/19-3.htm">Leviticus 19:3</a>); "His blood would be upon him." The cursing of parents was a capital crime (see at <a href="http://biblehub.com/leviticus/17-4.htm">Leviticus 17:4</a>, and for the plural דּמיו <a href="/exodus/22-1.htm">Exodus 22:1</a> and <a href="/genesis/4-10.htm">Genesis 4:10</a>), which was to return upon the doer of it, according to <a href="/genesis/9-6.htm">Genesis 9:6</a>. The same punishment was to be inflicted upon adultery (<a href="http://biblehub.com/leviticus/20-10.htm">Leviticus 20:10</a>, cf. <a href="/leviticus/18-20.htm">Leviticus 18:20</a>), carnal intercourse with a father's wife (<a href="http://biblehub.com/leviticus/20-11.htm">Leviticus 20:11</a>, cf. <a href="http://biblehub.com/leviticus/18-7.htm">Leviticus 18:7-8</a>) or with a daughter-in-law (<a href="http://biblehub.com/leviticus/20-12.htm">Leviticus 20:12</a>, cf. <a href="/leviticus/18-17.htm">Leviticus 18:17</a>), sodomy (<a href="http://biblehub.com/leviticus/20-13.htm">Leviticus 20:13</a>, cf. <a href="/leviticus/18-22.htm">Leviticus 18:22</a>), sexual intercourse with a mother and her daughter, in which case the punishment was to be heightened by the burning of the criminals when put to death (<a href="http://biblehub.com/leviticus/20-14.htm">Leviticus 20:14</a>, cf. <a href="/leviticus/18-17.htm">Leviticus 18:17</a>), lying with a beast (<a href="http://biblehub.com/leviticus/20-15.htm">Leviticus 20:15</a>, <a href="http://biblehub.com/leviticus/20-16.htm">Leviticus 20:16</a>, cf. <a href="/leviticus/18-23.htm">Leviticus 18:23</a>), sexual intercourse with a half-sister (<a href="http://biblehub.com/leviticus/20-17.htm">Leviticus 20:17</a>, cf. <a href="/leviticus/18-9.htm">Leviticus 18:9</a> and <a href="/leviticus/18-11.htm">Leviticus 18:11</a>), and lying with a menstruous woman (<a href="http://biblehub.com/leviticus/20-18.htm">Leviticus 20:18</a>, cf. <a href="/leviticus/18-19.htm">Leviticus 18:19</a>). The punishment of death, which was to be inflicted in all these cases upon both the criminals, and also upon the beast that had been abused (<a href="http://biblehub.com/leviticus/20-15.htm">Leviticus 20:15</a>, <a href="/leviticus/20-16.htm">Leviticus 20:16</a>), was to be by stoning, according to <a href="http://biblehub.com/leviticus/20-2.htm">Leviticus 20:2</a>, <a href="http://biblehub.com/leviticus/20-27.htm">Leviticus 20:27</a>, and <a href="/deuteronomy/22-21.htm">Deuteronomy 22:21</a>.; and by the burning (<a href="/leviticus/20-14.htm">Leviticus 20:14</a>) we are not to understand death by fire, or burning alive, but, as we may clearly see from <a href="/joshua/7-15.htm">Joshua 7:15</a> and <a href="http://biblehub.com/joshua/7-25.htm">Joshua 7:25</a>, burning the corpse after death. 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