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C. F. Keil and Franz Delitzsch on Leviticus 19:16

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Leviticus19:16

Lev 19:16

They were not to go about as calumniators among their countrymen, to bring their neighbour to destruction (Eze 22:9); nor to set themselves against the blood of a neighbour, i.e., to seek his life. רכיל does not mean calumny, but, according to its formation, a calumniator (Ewald, §149 e).

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