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Leviticus 18:24

A woman must not give herself to an animal to have sex with it. That is something disgusting. Don't pollute yourselves and make yourselves unclean by doing anything like this. That's the reason I'm expelling these nations from the land—they polluted themselves because of all these practices.

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In The King James Version

Defile not ye yourselves in any of these things: for in all these the nations are defiled which I cast out before you:

In Context

23Don't have sex with any animal. This would pollute you and make you unclean.

25Even the land has become polluted, so I am punishing it for the sins committed by the people who live there, and the land will vomit them out.

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Cross References

Leviticus 18:6Don't have sex with a close relative.

Leviticus 20:22So keep all my rules and regulations, so that the land where I'm taking you to live won't vomit you out.

Deuteronomy 9:5It's not because you're so good or moral that you're going to take over their land. No, it's because of their wickedness that the Lord your God is driving out these nations ahead of you, to keep the promise he made to your fathers—to Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob.

Deuteronomy 18:12It's because of these offensive things that the Lord your God is driving out the nations before you.

Judges 20:6I took my concubine and cut her into pieces, and I sent these pieces of her to every part of the country that had been given to Israel, because those men had done something shameful and disgusting in Israel.

2 Chronicles 33:2He did evil in the Lord's sight by following the disgusting religious practices of the nations that the Lord had driven out before the Israelites.

Matthew Henry on Leviticus 18:20-30

Laws against Iniquity. ( b. c. 1490.) 19 Also thou shalt not approach unto a woman to uncover her nakedness, as long as she is put apart for her uncleanness. 20 Moreover thou shalt not lie carnally with thy neighbour's wife, to defile thyself with her. 21 And 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 . 22 Thou shalt not lie with mankind, as with womankind: it is abomination. 23 Neither shalt thou lie with any beast to defile… Read the whole commentary →

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