“Ye shall therefore keep my statutes and my judgments, and shall not commit any of these abominations; neither any of your own nation, nor any stranger that sojourneth among you:”
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. The positive command following the warning: keep my decrees and laws. The comprehensive application — native-born and foreigner — communicates that the sexual ethics are not culturally specific regulations for ethnic Israelites but the standards of the covenant community's space. Anyone living within that space is bound by the same sexual ethics.
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