Leviticus 18:22-30

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

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.

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 became defiled.

25 Even the land was defiled; so I punished it for its sin, and the land vomited out its inhabitants.

26 But you must keep my decrees and my laws. The native-born and the foreigners residing among you must not do any of these detestable things,

27 for all these things were done by the people who lived in the land before you, and the land became defiled.

28 And if you defile the land, it will vomit you out as it vomited out the nations that were before you.

29 “ ‘Everyone who does any of these detestable things—such persons must be cut off from their people.

30 Keep my requirements and do not follow any of the detestable customs that were practiced before you came and do not defile yourselves with them. I am the LORD your God.’ ”

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Leviticus 18:22-30 Meaning and Commentary

INTRODUCTION TO LEVITICUS 18

In this chapter the Israelites are directed in general not to imitate the customs and practices of the Egyptians and Canaanites, but to keep the ordinances, statutes, and judgments of the Lord, Le 18:1-5; and they are instructed particularly to avoid incestuous marriages, Le 18:6-18; carnal copulation with a menstruous woman, Le 18:19; adultery, Le 18:20; letting any of their seed pass through the fire to Molech, Le 18:21; sodomy, Le 18:22; and bestiality, Le 18:23; and they are deterred from these things by observing to them the pollution and destruction which they brought on the inhabitants of Canaan, and would bring the same on them should they commit them, Le 18:24-30.

Taken from John Gill's Exposition of the Bible

Cross References 13

1. Leviticus 20:13; Deuteronomy 23:18; Romans 1:27; 1 Corinthians 6:9
2. S Genesis 19:5
3. Exodus 22:19; Leviticus 20:15; Deuteronomy 27:21
4. ver 3,27,30; Leviticus 20:23
5. Deuteronomy 9:4; Deuteronomy 18:12
6. Numbers 35:34; Deuteronomy 21:23
7. Leviticus 20:23; Deuteronomy 9:5; Deuteronomy 12:31; Deuteronomy 18:12
8. ver 28; Leviticus 20:22; Job 20:15; Jeremiah 51:34
9. S Genesis 26:5
10. Leviticus 20:22; Ezra 9:11; Lamentations 1:17
11. S ver 25
12. S Leviticus 8:35; Deuteronomy 11:1
13. ver 2

Leviticus 18:22-30

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Leviticus 18:22-30 Meaning and Commentary

INTRODUCTION TO LEVITICUS 18

Cross References 13