Thou shalt not lie with mankind, as with womankind: it is abomination.
The prohibition forbids a man to lie with mankind as with womankind, calling it abomination, as one of the sexual prohibitions in Leviticus 18:6-24. Those prohibitions, which include marrying a sister or a daughter, rest on moral considerations and are moral sins, not merely Jewish ritual pollutions. As moral they remain in force and specify God's commandments, with God's law as the standard that exposes such conduct as sinful. That standard proves the law existed and was known before its proclamation at Sinai.
The chapter sets forth the wicked, vile and evil practices of the nations dwelling in Canaan and the harm those practices brought, refuting the idea that they were a good or peaceable people. The verse is cited as part of that warning, without further explanation of its specific command beyond its place in exposing their conduct. For these abominations the land vomited out its former inhabitants, and the Canaanites were destroyed and driven out. That judgment proves the prohibitions bind nations beyond Israel, and that those nations were sinners, guilty before God and accountable under His law.
The verse belongs to a group of prohibitions whose violation could make a marriage unlawful. In that connection the term bastard may refer to the offspring of incestuous unions or of marriages violating rules of affinity.
The prohibition forbids a man to lie with mankind as with womankind, calling it abomination, as one of the sexual prohibitions in Leviticus 18:6-24. Those prohibitions, which include marrying a sister or a daughter, rest on moral considerations and are moral sins, not merely Jewish ritual pollutions. As moral they remain in force and specify God's commandments, with God's law as the standard that exposes such conduct as sinful. That standard proves the law existed and was known before its proclamation at Sinai.
The chapter sets forth the wicked, vile and evil practices of the nations dwelling in Canaan and the harm those practices brought, refuting the idea that they were a good or peaceable people. The verse is cited as part of that warning, without further explanation of its specific command beyond its place in exposing their conduct. For these abominations the land vomited out its former inhabitants, and the Canaanites were destroyed and driven out. That judgment proves the prohibitions bind nations beyond Israel, and that those nations were sinners, guilty before God and accountable under His law.
The verse belongs to a group of prohibitions whose violation could make a marriage unlawful. In that connection the term bastard may refer to the offspring of incestuous unions or of marriages violating rules of affinity.