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Leviticus 20:13

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13 If a man lies with a male as with a woman, both of them have committed an abomination; they shall be put to death; their blood is upon them.
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Leviticus 20:13 Meaning and Commentary

Leviticus 20:13

If a man lie also with mankind, as he lieth with a woman
Is guilty of the sin of sodomy, this is a breach of the law in ( Leviticus 18:22 ) ;

both of them have committed an abomination;
he that lies, and he that is lain with, both consenting to perpetrate the abominable wickedness; which may well be called an abomination, being contrary to nature, and more than brutish, for nothing of that kind is to be found among brutes:

they shall surely be put to death;
if he that is lain with is not forced, as Aben Ezra observes:

their blood [shall be] upon them;
be slain by stoning, as the above Targum.

Taken from John Gill's Exposition of the Bible

Leviticus 20:13 In-Context

11 The man who lies with his father's wife has uncovered his father's nakedness; both of them shall be put to death; their blood is upon them.
12 If a man lies with his daughter-in-law, both of them shall be put to death; they have committed perversion, their blood is upon them.
13 If a man lies with a male as with a woman, both of them have committed an abomination; they shall be put to death; their blood is upon them.
14 If a man takes a wife and her mother also, it is depravity; they shall be burned to death, both he and they, that there may be no depravity among you.
15 If a man has sexual relations with an animal, he shall be put to death; and you shall kill the animal.
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