Some ceremonial precepts there are in this chapter, but most of them are moral. One would wonder that when some of the lighter matters of the law are greatly enlarged upon (witness two long chapters concerning the leprosy) many of the weightier matters are put into a little compass: divers of the…

Moses is ordered to deliver the summary of the laws to all the congregation of the children of Israel ; not to Aaron and his sons only, but to all the people, for they were all concerned to know their duty.

We are taught here, I. To be honest and true in all our dealings, Lev. 19:11. God, who has appointed every man’s property by his providence, forbids by his law the invading of that appointment, either by downright theft, You shall not steal, or by fraudulent dealing, “You shall not cheat, or deal…

Here is, I. A law against mixtures, Lev. 19:19. God in the beginning made the cattle after their kind , and we must acquiesce in the order of nature God hath established, believing that is best and sufficient, and not covet monsters.

Here is, I. A law for the preserving of the honour of the time and place appropriated to the service of God, Lev. 19:30. This would be a means to secure them both from the idolatries and superstitions of the heathen and from all immoralities in conversation. 1.