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22Thou shalt not lie with mankind, as with womankind: it is abomination.

Leviticus 18:22

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From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

  • If a man also lie with mankind, as he lieth with a woman, both of them have committed an abomination: they shall surely be put to death; their blood shall be upon them.

  • Know ye not that the unrighteous shall not inherit the kingdom of God? Be not deceived: neither fornicators, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor effeminate, nor abusers of themselves with mankind,

  • For this cause God gave them up unto vile affections: for even their women did change the natural use into that which is against nature: …

  • For whoremongers, for them that defile themselves with mankind, for menstealers, for liars, for perjured persons, and if there be any other thing that is contrary to sound doctrine;

  • And there were also sodomites in the land: and they did according to all the abominations of the nations which the LORD cast out before the children of Israel.

Commentary

Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)

(vv. 19-30)

Here is, I. A law to preserve the honour of the marriage-bed, that it should not be unseasonably used (Lev. 18:19), nor invaded by an adulterer, Lev. 18:20. II. A law against that which was the most unnatural idolatry, causing their children to pass through the fire to Moloch , Lev. 18:21. Moloch (as some think) was the idol in and by which they worshipped the sun, that great fire of the world; an…

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