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Leviticus 18:22

You shall not lie with mankind, as with womankind: it is abomination.

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 Century Version
"‘You must not have sexual relations with a man as you would a woman. That is a hateful sin.
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.
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 shall not approach to a woman to uncover her nakedness, as long as she is impure by her uncleanness. 20 You shall not lie carnally with your neighbor's wife, to defile yourself with her. 21 You shall not give any of your seed to make them pass through [the fire] to Molech; neither shall you profane the name of your God: I am Yahweh. 22 You shall not lie with mankind, as with womankind: it is abomination. 23 You shall not lie with any animal to defile yourself therewith; neither shall any woman stand before an animal, to lie down with it: it is confusion. 24 Don't defile yourselves in any of these things: for in all these the nations are defiled which I cast out from before you; 25 The land is defiled: therefore I do visit the iniquity of it on it, and the land vomits out her inhabitants. 26 You therefore shall keep my statutes and my ordinances, and shall not do any of these abominations; neither the home-born, nor the stranger who sojourns among you; 27 (for all these abominations have the men of the land done, that were before you, and the land is defiled); 28 that the land not vomit you out also, when you defile it, as it vomited out the nation that was 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
Yahweh appeared to him by the oaks of Mamre, as he sat in the tent door in the heat of the day.
Genesis 18:2
He lifted up his eyes and looked, and saw that three men stood opposite him. When he saw them, he ran to meet them from the tent door, and bowed himself to the earth,
Genesis 18:16
The men rose up from there, and looked toward Sodom. Abraham went with them to see them on their way.
Genesis 19:1
The two angels came to Sodom at evening. Lot sat in the gate of Sodom. Lot saw them, and rose up to meet them. He bowed himself with his face to the earth,
Psalms 106:23
Therefore he said that he would destroy them, Had Moses, his chosen, not stood before him in the breach, To turn away his wrath, so that he wouldn't destroy them.
Jeremiah 15:1
Then said Yahweh to me, Though Moses and Samuel stood before me, yet my mind would not be toward this people: cast them out of my sight, and let them go forth.
Jeremiah 18:20
Shall evil be recompensed for good? for they have dug a pit for my soul. Remember how I stood before you to speak good for them, to turn away your wrath from them.
Ezekiel 22:30
I sought for a man among them, who should build up the wall, and stand in the gap before me for the land, that I should not destroy it; but I found none.
Acts 7:55
But he, being full of the Holy Spirit, looked up steadfastly into heaven, and saw the glory of God, and Jesus standing on the right hand of God,
1 Timothy 2:1
I exhort therefore, first of all, that petitions, prayers, intercessions, and givings of thanks, be made for all men:

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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