“Thou shalt not lie with mankind, as with womankind: it is abomination.”
Do not have sexual relations with a man as one does with a woman; that is detestable. The prohibition on male same-sex intercourse is stated with the evaluation detestable — to'evah, the same evaluation used for the dietary prohibitions of Leviticus 11. The prohibited practice is evaluated as contrary to the created order that God established and as incompatible with the holiness of the covenant community. Romans 1:26–27 connects the prohibition to the created order's sexual design.
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