The Lord God is not slack concerning his promises,
neither is he lack concerning His commandments to His people. In directing his people towards a life of
holiness, He was very detailed and as has been said earlier, these commandments
of the Lord were never vitiated.
So now, the Lord says to Moses again, speak unto the
children of Israel and remind them, “I am the Lord your God.”
“And after the doings of the people of the land of
Egypt wherein you lived and which I brought you from, you shall not do neither
shall you do after the ways of the Canaanites to whose land I have brought you;
do not do like any of them nor walk according to their laws and customs.
You shall be careful to do and to keep only my laws,
my ordinances and my commandments. For if a man does according to my statutes,
my laws, my ordinances and my commandments he shall live in keeping them.
God then lists a number of inter-personal
relationships and practices which He absolutely prohibited and are as follows:
1
None of you shall
approach to any that is near of kin to you to uncover their nakedness: For I am
the Lord.
2
The nakedness of
your father or the nakedness of your mother shall you not uncover; for she is
your parent.
3
The nakedness of
your father’s wife you shall not uncover, it is the same as the nakedness of
your father.
4
The nakedness of
your sister, whether the daughter of your father or the daughter of your
mother, born at home or born abroad, their nakedness you shall not uncover.
5
The nakedness of
your son’s daughter, or of your daughter’s daughter, even their nakedness you
must not uncover. More.
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