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New Century Version

Leviticus 18:22

"‘You must not have sexual relations with a man as you would a woman. That is a hateful sin.

Bible Study Resources

Concordances:

- Nave's Topical Bible - Abomination;   Punishment;   Sodomy;   The Topic Concordance - Abomination;   Confusion;   Sexual Activities;  

Dictionaries:

- American Tract Society Bible Dictionary - Affinity;   Marriage;   Bridgeway Bible Dictionary - Ethics;   Fornication;   Marriage;   Baker Evangelical Dictionary of Biblical Theology - Homosexuality;   Immorality, Sexual;   Punishment;   Worship;   Fausset Bible Dictionary - Abomination;   Holman Bible Dictionary - Abomination, Abomination of Desolation;   Ethics;   Leviticus;   Marriage;   Molech;   Pentateuch;   Sex, Biblical Teaching on;   Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible - Abomination;   Canon of the Old Testament;   Congregation, Assembly;   Crimes and Punishments;   Deuteronomy;   Hexateuch;   Holiness;   Law;   Leviticus;   Marriage;   Priests and Levites;   Sanctification, Sanctify;  

Encyclopedias:

- International Standard Bible Encyclopedia - Crime;   Leviticus;   Mankind;   Kitto Biblical Cyclopedia - Abomination;   The Jewish Encyclopedia - Capital Punishment;   Chastity;  

Parallel Translations

Hebrew Names Version
"'You shall not lie with a man, as with a woman. That is detestible.
King James Version
Thou shalt not lie with mankind, as with womankind: it is abomination.
Lexham English Bible
And you shall not lie with a male as lying with a woman; that is a detestable thing.
New English Translation
You must not have sexual intercourse with a male as one has sexual intercourse with a woman; it is a detestable act.
Amplified Bible
'You shall not lie [intimately] with a male as one lies with a female; it is repulsive.
New American Standard Bible
'You shall not sleep with a male as one sleeps with a female; it is an abomination.
Geneva Bible (1587)
Thou shalt not lie with ye male as one lieth with a woman: for it is abomination.
Legacy Standard Bible
And you shall not lie with a male as one lies with a female; it is an abomination.
Contemporary English Version
It is disgusting for a man to have sex with another man.
Complete Jewish Bible
(RY: iv, LY: vii) "‘You are not to go to bed with a man as with a woman; it is an abomination.
Darby Translation
And thou shalt not lie with mankind as one lieth with a woman: it is an abomination.
Easy-to-Read Version
"Men, you must not have sexual relations with another man as with a woman. That is a terrible sin!
English Standard Version
You shall not lie with a male as with a woman; it is an abomination.
George Lamsa Translation
You shall not lie with a male as with a woman; because it is an abomination.
Good News Translation
No man is to have sexual relations with another man; God hates that.
Christian Standard Bible®
You are not to sleep with a man as with a woman; it is detestable.
Literal Translation
And you shall not lie with a male as one lies with a woman; it is a perversion.
Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
Thou shalt not lye with mankynde as with womankynde, for yt is abhominacion.
American Standard Version
Thou shalt not lie with mankind, as with womankind: it is abomination.
Bible in Basic English
You may not have sex relations with men, as you do with women: it is a disgusting thing.
Bishop's Bible (1568)
Thou shalt not lye with mankynde as with womankynde, for it is abhomination.
JPS Old Testament (1917)
Thou shalt not lie with mankind, as with womankind; it is abomination.
King James Version (1611)
Thou shalt not lie with mankinde, as with womankinde: it is abomination.
Brenton's Septuagint (LXX)
And thou shalt not lie with a man as with a woman, for it is an abomination.
English Revised Version
Thou shalt not lie with mankind, as with womankind: it is abomination.
Berean Standard Bible
You must not lie with a man as with a woman; that is an abomination.
Wycliffe Bible (1395)
Thou schalt not be medlid with a man bi letcherie of womman, for it is abhomynacioun.
Young's Literal Translation
`And with a male thou dost not lie as one lieth with a woman; abomination it [is].
Update Bible Version
You shall not have sex with a man: it is disgusting.
Webster's Bible Translation
Thou shalt not lie with mankind, as with womankind: it [is] abomination.
World English Bible
You shall not lie with mankind, as with womankind: it is abomination.
New King James Version
You shall not lie with a male as with a woman. It is an abomination.
New Living Translation
"Do not practice homosexuality, having sex with another man as with a woman. It is a detestable sin.
New Life Bible
Do not lie with a man as one lies with a woman. It is a sinful thing.
New Revised Standard
You shall not lie with a male as with a woman; it is an abomination.
J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
And, with mankind, shalt thou not lie as with womankind, - an abomination, it is.
Douay-Rheims Bible
Thou shalt not lie with mankind as with womankind: because it is an abomination.
Revised Standard Version
You shall not lie with a male as with a woman; it is an abomination.
THE MESSAGE
"Don't have sex with a man as one does with a woman. That is abhorrent.
New American Standard Bible (1995)
'You shall not lie with a male as one lies with a female; it is an abomination.

Contextual Overview

19 "‘You must not go near a woman to have sexual relations with her during her monthly period, when she is unclean. 20 "‘You must not have sexual relations with your neighbor's wife and make yourself unclean with her. 21 "‘You must not give any of your children to be sacrificed to Molech, because this would show that you do not respect your God. I am the Lord . 22 "‘You must not have sexual relations with a man as you would a woman. That is a hateful sin. 23 "‘You must not have sexual relations with an animal and make yourself unclean with it. Also a woman must not have sexual relations with an animal; it is not natural. 24 "‘Don't make yourself unclean by any of these wrong things. I am forcing nations out of their countries because they did these sins, and I am giving their land to you. 25 The land has become unclean, and I punished it for its sins, so the land is throwing out those people who live there. 26 "‘You must obey my laws and rules, and you must not do any of these hateful sins. These rules are for the citizens of Israel and for the people who live with you. 27 The people who lived in the land before you did all these hateful things and made the land unclean. 28 If you do these things, you will also make the land unclean, and it will throw you out as it threw out the nations before you.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

Leviticus 20:13, Genesis 19:5, Judges 19:22, 1 Kings 14:24, Romans 1:26, Romans 1:27, 1 Corinthians 6:9, 1 Timothy 1:10, Jude 1:7

Reciprocal: Genesis 19:7 - General Ezekiel 16:50 - and committed Ezekiel 18:12 - hath committed Romans 1:24 - between

Cross-References

Genesis 18:1
Later, the Lord again appeared to Abraham near the great trees of Mamre. Abraham was sitting at the entrance of his tent during the hottest part of the day.
Genesis 18:2
He looked up and saw three men standing near him. When Abraham saw them, he ran from his tent to meet them. He bowed facedown on the ground before them
Genesis 18:16
Then the men got up to leave and started out toward Sodom. Abraham walked along with them a short time to send them on their way.
Genesis 19:1
The two angels came to Sodom in the evening as Lot was sitting near the city gate. When he saw them, he got up and went to them and bowed facedown on the ground.
Psalms 106:23
So God said he would destroy them. But Moses, his chosen one, stood before him and stopped God's anger from destroying them.
Jeremiah 15:1
Then the Lord said to me: "I would not feel sorry for the people of Judah even if Moses and Samuel prayed for them. Send them away from me! Tell them to go!
Jeremiah 18:20
Good should not be paid back with evil, but they have dug a pit in order to kill me. Remember that I stood before you and asked you to do good things for these people and to turn your anger away from them.
Ezekiel 22:30
"I looked for someone to build up the walls and to stand before me where the walls are broken to defend these people so I would not have to destroy them. But I could not find anyone.
Acts 7:55
But Stephen was full of the Holy Spirit. He looked up to heaven and saw the glory of God and Jesus standing at God's right side.
1 Timothy 2:1
First, I tell you to pray for all people, asking God for what they need and being thankful to him.

Gill's Notes on the Bible

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.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse Leviticus 18:22. 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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