Leviticus · Chapter 18

Leviticus 18:22

¹And the LORD spake unto Moses, saying,²Speak unto the children of Israel, and say unto them, I am the LORD your God.³After the doings of the land of Egypt, wherein ye dwelt, shall ye not do: and after the doings of the land of Canaan, whither I bring you, shall ye not do: neither shall ye walk in their ordinances.⁴Ye shall do my judgments, and keep mine ordinances, to walk therein: I am the LORD your God.⁵Ye shall therefore keep my statutes, and my judgments: which if a man do, he shall live in them: I am the LORD.⁶None of you shall approach to any that is near of kin to him, to uncover their nakedness: I am the LORD.⁷The nakedness of thy father, or the nakedness of thy mother, shalt thou not uncover: she is thy mother; thou shalt not uncover her nakedness.⁸The nakedness of thy father’s wife shalt thou not uncover: it is thy father’s nakedness.⁹The nakedness of thy sister, the daughter of thy father, or daughter of thy mother, whether she be born at home, or born abroad, even their nakedness thou shalt not uncover.¹⁰The nakedness of thy son’s daughter, or of thy daughter’s daughter, even their nakedness thou shalt not uncover: for theirs is thine own nakedness.¹¹The nakedness of thy father’s wife’s daughter, begotten of thy father, she is thy sister, thou shalt not uncover her nakedness.¹²Thou shalt not uncover the nakedness of thy father’s sister: she is thy father’s near kinswoman.¹³Thou shalt not uncover the nakedness of thy mother’s sister: for she is thy mother’s near kinswoman.¹⁴Thou shalt not uncover the nakedness of thy father’s brother, thou shalt not approach to his wife: she is thine aunt.¹⁵Thou shalt not uncover the nakedness of thy daughter in law: she is thy son’s wife; thou shalt not uncover her nakedness.¹⁶Thou shalt not uncover the nakedness of thy brother’s wife: it is thy brother’s nakedness.¹⁷Thou shalt not uncover the nakedness of a woman and her daughter, neither shalt thou take her son’s daughter, or her daughter’s daughter, to uncover her nakedness; for they are her near kinswomen: it is wickedness.¹⁸Neither shalt thou take a wife to her sister, to vex her, to uncover her nakedness, beside the other in her life time.¹⁹Also thou shalt not approach unto a woman to uncover her nakedness, as long as she is put apart for her uncleanness.²⁰Moreover thou shalt not lie carnally with thy neighbour’s wife, to defile thyself with her.²¹And thou shalt not let any of thy seed pass through the fire to Molech, neither shalt thou profane the name of thy God: I am the LORD.²²Thou shalt not lie with mankind, as with womankind: it is abomination.²³Neither shalt thou lie with any beast to defile thyself therewith: neither shall any woman stand before a beast to lie down thereto: it is confusion.²⁴Defile not ye yourselves in any of these things: for in all these the nations are defiled which I cast out before you:²⁵And the land is defiled: therefore I do visit the iniquity thereof upon it, and the land itself vomiteth out her inhabitants.²⁶Ye shall therefore keep my statutes and my judgments, and shall not commit any of these abominations; neither any of your own nation, nor any stranger that sojourneth among you:²⁷(For all these abominations have the men of the land done, which were before you, and the land is defiled;)²⁸That the land spue not you out also, when ye defile it, as it spued out the nations that were before you.²⁹For whosoever shall commit any of these abominations, even the souls that commit them shall be cut off from among their people.³⁰Therefore shall ye keep mine ordinance, that ye commit not any one of these abominable customs, which were committed before you, and that ye defile not yourselves therein: I am the LORD your God.

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22	Thou shalt not lie with mankind, as with womankind: it is abomination.	You must not lie with a man as with a woman; that is an abomination.	Thou shalt not lie with mankind, as with womankind: it is abomination.

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English	Hebrew	Say it	Strong's	Meaning
a male	זָכָ֔ר	za-KHAR	H2145	male זָכָר (za.khar) 1) male (of humans and animals) adj 2) male (of humans)
not	לֹ֥א	lo'	H3808	not לֹא (lo) 1) not, no 1a) not (with verb-absolute prohibition) 1b) not (with modifier-negation) 1c) nothing (subst) 1d) without (with particle) 1e) before (of time) Aramaic equivalent: la (לָא "not" H3809)
you will lie with	תִשְׁכַּ֖ב	tish-KAV	H7901I	to lie down: lay down שָׁכַב (sha.khav) : lay_down/lie_with 1) to lie down 1a) (Qal) 1a1) to lie, lie down, lie on 1a2) to lodge 1a3) to lie (of sexual relations) 1a4) to lie down (in death) 1a5) to rest, relax (fig) 1b) (Niphal) to be lain with (sexually) 1c) (Pual) to be lain with (sexually) 1d) (Hiphil) to make to lie down 1e) (Hophal) to be laid
[the] lyings of	מִשְׁכְּבֵ֣י	mish-ke-VEI	H4904	bed מִשְׁכַּב (mish.kav) couch, bed Aramaic of mish.kav (מִשְׁכָּב "bed" H4904)
a woman	אִשָּׁ֑ה	'i-SHAH	H0802G	woman אִשָּׁה (ish.shah) : woman 1) woman, wife, female 1a) woman (opposite of man) 1b) wife (woman married to a man) 1c) female (of animals) 1d) each, every (pronoun)
[is] an abomination	תּוֹעֵבָ֖ה	to-'e-VAH	H8441	abomination תּוֹעֵבַה (to.e.vah) 1) a disgusting thing, abomination, abominable 1a) in ritual sense (of unclean food, idols, mixed marriages) 1b) in ethical sense (of wickedness etc)
it	הִֽוא׃	hi'	H1931	he/she/it הוּא (hu) pron 3p s 1) he, she, it 1a) himself (with emphasis) 1b) resuming subj with emphasis 1c) (with minimum emphasis following predicate) 1d) (anticipating subj) 1e) (emphasising predicate) 1f) that, it (neuter) demons pron 2) that (with article)

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