22 You are not to sleep with a man as with a woman;(A) it is detestable.(B) 23 You are not to have sexual intercourse with[a] any animal, defiling yourself with it; a woman is not to present herself to an animal to mate with it;(C) it is a perversion.

24 “Do not defile yourselves by any of these practices, for the nations I am driving out before you have defiled themselves by all these things.

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Footnotes

  1. Leviticus 18:23 Lit to give your emission to

22 “‘Do not have sexual relations with a man as one does with a woman;(A) that is detestable.(B)

23 “‘Do not have sexual relations with an animal and defile yourself with it. A woman must not present herself to an animal to have sexual relations with it; that is a perversion.(C)

24 “‘Do not defile yourselves in any of these ways, because this is how the nations that I am going to drive out before you(D) became defiled.(E)

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