THEOSISLeviticus 20:13Meaning & Commentary from the Church Fathers
If any one lie with a man as with a woman, both have committed an abomination: let them be put to death. Their blood be upon them.
וְאִ֗ישׁ אֲשֶׁ֨ר יִשְׁכַּ֤ב אֶת־זָכָר֙ מִשְׁכְּבֵ֣י אִשָּׁ֔ה תּוֹעֵבָ֥ה עָשׂ֖וּ שְׁנֵיהֶ֑ם מ֥וֹת יוּמָ֖תוּ דְּמֵיהֶ֥ם בָּֽם׃
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Passages read together with this verse.
- 1 Cor 6:9Know you not that the unjust shall not possess the kingdom of God? Do not err: Neither fornicators nor idolaters nor adulterers:
- Lev 18:22Thou shalt not lie with mankind as with womankind: because it is an abomination.
- Jude 1:7As Sodom and Gomorrha and the neighbouring cities, in like manner, having given themselves to fornication and going after other flesh, were made an example, suffering the punishment of eternal fire.
- 1 Tim 1:10For fornicators, for them who defile themselves with mankind, for menstealers, for liars, for perjured persons, and whatever other thing is contrary to sound doctrine:
- Rom 1:26For this cause, God delivered them up to shameful affections. For their women have changed the natural use into that use which is against nature.
- Rom 1:27And, in like manner, the men also, leaving the natural use of the women, have burned in their lusts, one towards another: men with men, working that which is filthy and receiving in themselves the recompense which was due to their error.
- Deut 23:17There shall be no whore among the daughters of Israel, nor whoremonger among the sons of Israel.
- Gen 19:5And they called Lot, and said to him: Where are the men that came in to thee at night? bring them out hither, that we may know them: