Leviticus 18:22-23

18:22 You must not have sexual intercourse with a male as one has sexual intercourse with a woman; ¹  it is a detestable act. ²  18:23 You must not have sexual intercourse ³  with any animal to become defiled with it, and a woman must not stand before an animal to have sexual intercourse with it; ⁴  it is a perversion. ⁵ 

[18:22]  ¹ tn Heb “And with a male you shall not lay [as the] lyings of a woman” (see B. A. Levine, Leviticus [JPSTC], 123). The specific reference here is to homosexual intercourse between males.

[18:22]  ² tn The Hebrew term תּוֹעֵבָה (to’evah, rendered “detestable act”) refers to the repugnant practices of foreigners, whether from the viewpoint of other peoples toward the Hebrews (e.g., Gen 43:32; 46:34; Exod 8:26) or of the Lord toward other peoples (see esp. Lev 18:26-27, 29-30). It can also designate, as here, detestable acts that might be perpetrated by the native peoples (it is used again in reference to homosexuality in Lev 20:13; cf. also its use for unclean food, Deut 14:3; idol worship, Isa 41:24; remarriage to a former wife who has been married to someone else in between, Deut 24:4).

[18:23]  ³ tn See the note on v. 20 above.

[18:23]  ⁴ tn Heb “to copulate with it” (cf. Lev 20:16).

[18:23]  ⁵ tn The Hebrew term תֶּבֶל (tevel, “perversion”) derives from the verb “to mix; to confuse” and therefore refers to illegitimate mixtures of species or violation of the natural order of things.