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If a man lie with mankind, as with womankind, both of them have committed abomination: they shall surely be put to death; their blood shall be on them.
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A Grave Abomination
Commentators like John Calvin and John Gill emphasize that this act is condemned in the strongest possible terms. They describe it as an "abomination" that is "contrary to nature" and even "more than brutish." The prescribed death penalty for both consenting parties was meant to show the extreme gravity of the sin in the eyes of God and to purge such "pollution" from the community of Israel.
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Leviticus
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19th Century
Anglican
Mankind. See Leviticus 18:22.
16th Century
Protestant
If a man also63 God had until now taught what was right, in order to restrain the people from sin, not only from fear of punish…
17th Century
Reformed Baptist
If a man lie also with mankind, as he lieth with a woman Is guilty of the sin of sodomy, this is a breach of the law…
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Presbyterian
These verses repeat what had been said before, but it was necessary that there should be line upon line. What praises we owe to God that He has tau…
