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title: "Barnes"
description: "The crimes which are condemned in Leviticus 18:0; Leviticus 19:0 on purely spiritual ground, have here special punishments allotted to them as offences ag"
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The crimes which are condemned in [Leviticus 18](../../../kjv/leviticus/18); [Leviticus 19](../../../kjv/leviticus/19) on purely spiritual ground, have here special punishments allotted to them as offences against the well-being of the nation.

**Defile my sanctuary -**i. e. pollute the people as identified with their sanctuary.

The burning under the sentence of the Law took place after the death of the criminal by stoning, or strangling. [Joshua 7:25](../../../kjv/joshua/7/25).

**Cut off ... -**See [Exodus 31:14](../../../kjv/exodus/31/14) note. The more full expression here used probably refers to some special form of public excommunication, accompanied, it may be, by expulsion from the camp.

**They shall die childless -**Either the offspring should not be regarded as lawfully theirs, nor be entitled to any hereditary privileges, or they should have no blessing in their children.

**Any manner of living thing that creepeth -**Rather, any creeping thing; that is, any vermin. See [Leviticus 11:20-23](../../../kjv/leviticus/11/20-23). The reference in this verse is to dead animals, not to the creatures when alive.

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