Parallel Verses
Julia Smith Translation
And with a male thou shalt not lie on a woman's bed: it is abomination.
New American Standard Bible
King James Version
Thou shalt not lie with mankind, as with womankind: it is abomination.
Holman Bible
You are not to sleep with a man as with a woman;
International Standard Version
"I am the LORD. You are not to have sexual relations with a male as you would with a woman. It's detestable."
A Conservative Version
Thou shall not lay with mankind, as with womankind. It is abomination.
American Standard Version
Thou shalt not lie with mankind, as with womankind: it is abomination.
Amplified
You shall not lie [intimately] with a male as one lies with a female; it is repulsive.
Bible in Basic English
You may not have sex relations with men, as you do with women: it is a disgusting thing.
Darby Translation
And thou shalt not lie with mankind as one lieth with a woman: it is an abomination.
King James 2000
You shall not lie with a man, as with a woman: it is abomination.
Lexham Expanded Bible
And you shall not lie with a male as lying {with} a woman; that [is] a detestable thing.
Modern King James verseion
You shall not lie with mankind as with womankind. It is abomination to God.
Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale
"'Thou shalt not lie with mankind as with womankind, for that is abomination.
NET Bible
You must not have sexual intercourse with a male as one has sexual intercourse with a woman; it is a detestable act.
New Heart English Bible
"'You shall not have sexual relations with a male, as with a woman. That is detestable.
The Emphasized Bible
And, with mankind, shalt thou not lie as with womankind, - an abomination, it is.
Webster
Thou shalt not lie with mankind, as with womankind: it is abomination.
World English Bible
"'You shall not lie with a man, as with a woman. That is detestable.
Youngs Literal Translation
And with a male thou dost not lie as one lieth with a woman; abomination it is.
Themes
Abomination » Things that are, to God » Uncleanness
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Word Count of 20 Translations in Leviticus 18:22
Images Leviticus 18:22
Prayers for Leviticus 18:22
Verse Info
Context Readings
Laws Of Sexual Relations
21 And from thy seed thou shalt not give to pass over to Molech, and thou shalt not profane the name of thy God: I am Jehovah. 22 And with a male thou shalt not lie on a woman's bed: it is abomination. 23 And to any quadruped thou shalt not give thy bed, to be defiled with it: and a woman shall not stand before a quadruped, to lie with it: it is profanation.
Cross References
Leviticus 20:13
And a man who shall lie with a male in a woman's bed, they did abomination: they two, dying, shall die; their blood is upon them.
1 Kings 14:24
And also there was a holy place in the land; and they did according to all the abominations of the nations that Jehovah dispossessed from the face of the sons of Israel.
Romans 1:26-27
Therefore God delivered them to the suffering of ignominy: for also their females changed the natural use into that against generation:
1 Corinthians 6:9
Or know ye not that the unjust shall not inherit the kingdom of God Be ye not deceived: neither fornicators, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor effeminate, nor sodomites,
1 Timothy 1:10
For fornicators, unchaste, man-stealers, liars, the perjured, and if there be any other thing opposed to sound doctrine;
Deuteronomy 23:18
Thou shalt not bring the hire of a harlot, and the price of a dog to the house of Jehovah thy God, for any vow: for these two are also an abomination to Jehovah thy God.
Judges 19:22
They doing good to their heart, and behold, the men of the city, men of the sons of Belial, encompassed the house, knocking upon the door; and they will say to the man, the lord of the house, the old man, saying, Bring forth the man which came into thy house, and we will know him.
Jude 1:7
As Sodom and Gomorrha and the cities about them, debauched in like manner to these, and having gone away after other flesh, are set before a sample of eternal fire, enduring punishment.
Genesis 19:5
And they will call to Lot, and will say to him, Where the men which came to thee this night? bring them out to us and we shall know them.