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Admonition to Holiness
v. 22. Ye shall therefore keep all My statutes and all My judgments, both general and special, and do them, that the land whither I bring you to dwell therein spue you not out, Lev_18:25-28.
v. 23. And ye shall not walk in the manners of the nation which I cast out before you, the nation of the Canaanites with all its branches; for they committed all these things, and therefore I abhorred them. This implies that the sins enumerated in the list above were offenses against the natural law, against the summary of God's will as it was implanted in the hearts of men at the beginning. They were unnatural sins and vices.
v. 24. But I have said unto you, Ye shall inherit their land, and I will give it unto you to possess it, a land that floweth with milk and honey, of unusual fruitfulness. I am the Lord, your God, which have separated you from other people, to be a peculiar people, and one distinguished in His service.
v. 25. Ye shall therefore put difference between clean beasts and unclean, and between unclean fowls and clean, observe the distinctions set forth in Chapter 11; and ye shall not make your souls abominable by beast or by fowl or by any manner of living thing that creepeth on the ground, which I have separated from, you as unclean.
v. 26. And ye shall be holy unto Me; for I, the Lord, am holy, and have severed you from other people that ye should be Mine. "The sacred observance of the laws of food was thus a constant reminder for Israel of its theocratic sanctity and dignity. " (Lange. )
v. 27. A man also or woman that hath a familiar spirit, or that is a wizard, that consults with the spirits of the dead or practices necromancy, shall surely be put to death; they shall stone them with stones; their blood shall be upon them. In this way every defilement through idolatrous abominations was prevented, and Israel was kept consecrated for the service of the Lord.