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Leviticus 20:11-13

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20:11 If a man has sexual intercourse with his father’s wife, he has exposed his father’s nakedness. 1  Both of them must be put to death; their blood guilt is on themselves. 2  20:12 If a man has sexual intercourse with his daughter-in-law, both of them must be put to death. They have committed perversion; 3  their blood guilt is on themselves. 20:13 If a man has sexual intercourse with a male as one has sexual intercourse with a woman, 4  the two of them have committed an abomination. They must be put to death; their blood guilt is on themselves.
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[20:11]  1 sn See the note on Lev 18:7 above.

[20:11]  2 tn See the note on v. 9 above.

[20:12]  3 tn The Hebrew term תֶּבֶל (tevel, “perversion”) derives from the verb “to mix; to confuse” (cf. KJV, ASV “they have wrought confusion”).

[20:13]  5 tn Heb “[as the] lyings of a woman.” The specific reference here is to homosexual intercourse between males.



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