New English Translation
Leviticus 18:22
22You must not have sexual intercourse with a male as one has sexual intercourse with a woman; it is a detestable act.
Leviticus 18:22 in other versions
- King James Version (KJV)Thou shalt not lie with mankind, as with womankind: it is abomination.
- New International Version (NIV)“ ‘Do not have sexual relations with a man as one does with a woman; that is detestable.
- English Standard Version (ESV)You shall not lie with a male as with a woman; it is an abomination.
- New King James Version (NKJV)You shall not lie with a male as with a woman. It is an abomination.
Context of Leviticus 18:22
20You must not have sexual intercourse with the wife of your fellow citizen to become unclean with her. 21You must not give any of your children as an offering to Molech, so that you do not profane the name of your God. I am the Lord! You must not have sexual intercourse with a male as one has sexual intercourse with a woman; it is a detestable act. 23You must not have sexual intercourse with any animal to become defiled with it, and a woman must not stand before an animal to have sexual intercourse with it; it is a perversion. 24“‘Do not defile yourselves with any of these things, for the nations which I am about to drive out before you have been defiled with all these things.
Read all of Leviticus 18Leviticus 18:22 word by word
וְאֶ֨ת־זָכָ֔ר לֹ֥א תִשְׁכַּ֖ב מִשְׁכְּבֵ֣י אִשָּׁ֑ה תּוֹעֵבָ֖ה הִֽוא׃Read the interlinear
Words taken from the KJV.
Cross-references for Leviticus 18:22
- Leviticus 20:13If a man has sexual intercourse with a male as one has sexual intercourse with a woman, the two of them have committed an abomination. They must be put to death; their blood guilt is on themselves.
- Genesis 19:5They shouted to Lot, “Where are the men who came to you tonight? Bring them out to us so we can have sex with them!”
- Judges 19:22They were having a good time, when suddenly some men of the city, some good-for-nothings, surrounded the house and kept beating on the door. They said to the old man who owned the house, “Send out the man who came to visit you so we can have sex with him.”
- 1 Kings 14:24There were also male cultic prostitutes in the land. They committed the same horrible sins as the nations that the Lord had driven out from before the Israelites.
- Romans 1:26For this reason God gave them over to dishonorable passions. For their women exchanged the natural sexual relations for unnatural ones,
- 1 Corinthians 6:9Do you not know that the unrighteous will not inherit the kingdom of God? Do not be deceived! The sexually immoral, idolaters, adulterers, passive homosexual partners, practicing homosexuals,
- 1 Timothy 1:10sexually immoral people, practicing homosexuals, kidnappers, liars, perjurers – in fact, for any who live contrary to sound teaching.
- Jude 1:7So also Sodom and Gomorrah and the neighboring towns, since they indulged in sexual immorality and pursued unnatural desire in a way similar to these angels, are now displayed as an example by suffering the punishment of eternal fire.
Commentaries on Leviticus 18:22
- Adam Clarke Bible Commentary · v. 22With mankind - This abominable crime, frequent among the Greeks and Romans as well as the Canaanites, may be punished with death in this country.Read the comment
- Tyndale Open Study Notes · v. 22In Genesis 1:31, God declared all things good. This shows that what God creates and the way he designed it to work define what is good. One part of this good creation was the making of woman as a companion for man (Genesis 2:22–24). Marriage reflects this design. It forms a small picture of the whole human race, which together bears God’s image. Sin entered the world through the original disobedience of humanity (called "the Fall") and disrupted this…Read the comment
- Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary · v. 1-302-4. I am the Lord your God--This renewed mention of the divine sovereignty over the Israelites was intended to bear particularly on some laws that were widely different from the social customs that obtained both in Egypt and Canaan; for the enormities, which the laws enumerated in this chapter were intended to put down, were freely practised or publicly sanctioned in both of those countries; and, indeed, the extermination of the ancient Canaanites is…Read the comment
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Commentaries on Leviticus 18
- Adam Clarke Bible Commentary
- Barnes’ Notes on the Bible
- Matthew Henry Concise Commentary
- Tyndale Open Study Notes
- Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary
- Rashi on Tanakh
- Calvin’s Commentaries
- Keil & Delitzsch Commentary
- John Wesley’s Notes
- Darby Translation Notes
- Geneva Bible Translation Notes
- Kingcomments
- Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary
- Matthew Henry’s Modern English Commentary
- Scofield Reference Notes, 1917 Edition
- Original Douay–Rheims Annotations
- Seventh-day Adventist Bible Commentary
- EGW Writings
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