Leviticus 18:22
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“ ‘Do not have sexual relations with a man as one does with a woman; that is detestable.
Read Leviticus 18:22 Using Other Translations
Thou shalt not lie with mankind, as with womankind: it is abomination.
You shall not lie with a male as with a woman; it is an abomination.
“Do not practice homosexuality, having sex with another man as with a woman. It is a detestable sin.
What does Leviticus 18:22 mean?
John Gill's Exposition of the Bible
Leviticus 18:22
Thou shall not lie with mankind as with
womankind
By carnal knowledge of them, and carnal copulation with them, and
mixing bodies in like manner: this is the sin commonly called
sodomy, from the inhabitants of Sodom, greatly addicted to it,
for which their city was destroyed by fire: those that are guilty
of this sin, are, by the apostle, called "abusers of themselves
with mankind", ( 1
Corinthians 6:9 ) ; it [is] abomination;
it is so to God, as the above instance of his vengeance shows,
and ought to be abominable to men, as being not only contrary to
the law of God, but even contrary to nature itself, and what is
never to be observed among brute creatures.
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