“ ‘You shall not lie with a man as with a woman. That is detestable.
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“ ‘You shall not lie with a man as with a woman. That is detestable.
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Thou shalt not lie with mankind, as with womankind: it is abomination.
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Thou shalt not lie with mankind, as with womankind; it is abomination.
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- Leviticus 20:13 “ ‘If a man lies with a male, as with a woman, both of them have committed an abomination. They shall surely be put to death. Their blood shall be upon themselves.
- Romans 1:26-27 For this reason, God gave them up to vile passions. For their women changed the natural function into that which is against nature. Likewise also the men, leaving the natural function of the woman, burned in their lust toward one another, men doing what is inappropriate with men, and receiving in themselves the due penalty of their error.
- 1 Corinthians 6:9 Or don’t you know that the unrighteous will not inherit God’s Kingdom? Don’t be deceived. Neither the sexually immoral, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor male prostitutes, nor homosexuals,
- 1 Timothy 1:10 for the sexually immoral, for homosexuals, for slave-traders, for liars, for perjurers, and for any other thing contrary to the sound doctrine,
- Jude 1:7 Even as Sodom and Gomorrah and the cities around them, having in the same way as these given themselves over to sexual immorality and gone after strange flesh, are shown as an example, suffering the punishment of eternal fire.
- 1 Kings 14:24 There were also sodomites in the land. They did according to all the abominations of the nations which Yahweh drove out before the children of Israel.
- Deuteronomy 23:18 You shall not bring the hire of a prostitute, or the wages of a male prostitute, into the house of Yahweh your God for any vow; for both of these are an abomination to Yahweh your God.
- Judges 19:22 As they were making their hearts merry, behold, the men of the city, certain wicked fellows, surrounded the house, beating at the door; and they spoke to the master of the house, the old man, saying, “Bring out the man who came into your house, that we can have sex with him!”
- Genesis 19:5 They called to Lot, and said to him, “Where are the men who came in to you this night? Bring them out to us, that we may have sex with them.”
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John Trapp 1656 · Public Domain Lev 18:22 Thou shalt not lie with mankind, as…
Lev 18:22 Thou shalt not lie with mankind, as with womankind: it [is] abomination.
Ver. 22. Thou shalt not lie with mankind.] The Sodomites’ sin. {Gen 19:5} {See Trapp on "Gen 19:5"} This, say the Hebrews, was Ishmael’s sporting with Isaac: and this, say others, was the sin of Joseph’s brethren, the evil report whereof he brought to his father. A sad report it was surely to our King Henry I, that was brought him concerning his eldest son, William, who, crossing the seas from France to England, was with many other gallants cast away by shipwreck, being Sodomitica labe infecti fere omnes, saith Guliel. Parisiensis, almost all of them infected with this abomination of going after strange flesh. {Jdg 1:7-8}
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John Gill 1763 · Public Domain Thou shall not lie with mankind as with womankind,....…
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", Co1 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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Adam Clarke 1810 · Public Domain Verse 22. With mankind] This abominable crime, frequent among…
Verse 22. With mankind] This abominable crime, frequent among the Greeks and Romans as well as the Canaanites, may be punished with death in this country.
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Haydock's Catholic Bible Commentary 1859 · Public Domain Abomination, punished so severely in the Sodomites, Genesis xix.…
Abomination, punished so severely in the Sodomites, Genesis xix. Yet, even the philosophers of Greece were not at all ashamed of it. Bardesanes assures us, that the eastern nations punished it with death, and would not allow the guilty the honours of burial. Those beyond the Euphrates were so shocked at it, that they would kill themselves if they were only accused of such a crime. (Ap. Eusebius, præp. vi. 10.)
George Leo Haydock (1774–1849), Haydock's Catholic Family Bible and Commentary, 1859 edition — public domain. Excludes Psalms (Douay-Rheims chapter numbering differs from Protestant) and Deuterocanonical books (Catholic canon only).
Daniel D. Whedon 1874 · Public Domain 22. Lie with mankind, as with womankind — The…
22. Lie with mankind, as with womankind — The whole heathen world, according to St. Paul, (Rom_1:27, note,) corroborated by the ancient historians and all modern travellers, was more or less addicted to the disgusting vice of paederastia, or boy love, a crime against nature, “male on male performing the unseemliness,” which Christianity has banished. To this loathsome form of sensuality Roman poets once unblushingly sung praises. Read Virgil’s Second Eclogue.
Abomination — The Hebrew word occurs one hundred and sixteen times, and always expresses the loathsome and disgusting aspects of crimes and criminals.
Daniel D. Whedon (gen. ed.), Commentary on the Old and New Testaments (1874–1909) — public domain. Text from a community e-Sword module.
Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers 1878 · Public Domain (22) As with womankind.—This was the sin of Sodom…
(22) As with womankind.—This was the sin of Sodom (Gen_19:5), whence it derived its name, and in spite of the penalty of death enacted by the Law against those who were found guilty of it (see Lev_20:13), the Israelites did not quite relinquish this abominable vice (Jdg_19:22; 1Ki_14:24), to which the surrounding nations were addicted and which was so prevalent in the time of the Apostles (Rom_1:27; 1Co_6:9; Gal_5:19; 1Ti_1:10). By the law of Christ those who are guilty of this sin are excluded from the kingdom of God (1Co_6:9-10), whilst the laws of civilised Europe rightly inflict the severest penalties upon offenders of this kind.
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The Pulpit Commentary 1880 · Public Domain The fourth prohibition forbids the sin of Sodom. (see…
The fourth prohibition forbids the sin of Sodom. (see Gen_19:5 Jud_1:11:22 Rom_1:27 1Co_6:9 1Ti_1:10) The penalty is death. (Lev_20:13)
The Pulpit Commentary (1880–1919), ed. H.D.M. Spence-Jones & Joseph S. Exell — public domain. Text from a community e-Sword module.
unfoldingWord translationNotes 2017 · CC BY-SA 4.0 This would be perversion
This would be perversion
Here "perversion" refers to a violation of the natural order of things as Yahweh intended them to be.
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evil
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Tyndale Open Study Notes 2022 · CC BY-SA 4.0 18:22 In Gen 1:31, God pronounced all things good.…
18:22 In Gen 1:31, God pronounced all things good. This yielded a theology of the created order where good is defined by what God created and by the way he intended it to function. Part of this “good” was the creation of woman as man’s companion (Gen 2:22-24). Marriage forms a microcosm of the human race, which stands as the corporate bearer of God’s image. Sin, introduced by the Fall (Gen 3), disrupted the created order. Homosexuality is but one example of sinful violation of God’s order; it is tied to the rejection of God by fallen humanity (Rom 1:25-32). • The Hebrew word translated detestable (to‘ebah) indicates strong disapproval and disgust (Lev 20:13; see also 18:26-30).
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