“And hath not eaten upon the mountains, neither hath lifted up his eyes to the idols of the house of Israel, neither hath defiled his neighbour’s wife, neither hath come near to a menstruous woman,”
The righteous person does not eat on the mountains and does not lift his eyes to the idols of the house of Israel, maintaining ritual purity and spiritual separation from the surrounding idolatrous culture. Such deliberate separation from idolatrous practice demonstrates active commitment to covenant faithfulness rather than passive avoidance. The mountain sanctuaries and idolatrous shrines represented the pervasive alternative religious culture that threatened covenant loyalty.
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