Leviticus 18 · Verse 22

Leviticus 18:22

Thou shalt not lie with mankind, as with womankind: it is abomination.
Leviticus 18:22, King James Version

Leviticus 18:22 in other translations

BSBYou must not lie with a man as with a woman; that is an abomination.
WEB“‘You shall not lie with a man as with a woman. That is detestable.
ASVThou shalt not lie with mankind, as with womankind: it is abomination.
YLT‘And with a male thou dost not lie as one lieth with a woman; abomination it is.
DARBYAnd thou shalt not lie with mankind as one lieth with a woman: it is an abomination.
BBEYou may not have sex relations with men, as you do with women: it is a disgusting thing.
WebsterThou shalt not lie with mankind, as with womankind: it is abomination.

What does Leviticus 18:22 mean?

Adam Clarke's Commentary
Verse 22 With mankind - This abominable crime, frequent among the Greeks and Romans as well as the Canaanites, may be punished with death in this country.

Adam Clarke, 1831 · public domain

Leviticus 18:22 in the original Hebrew

Word-by-word with transliteration, English gloss and Strong's number. Tap a number for the full definition and every place the word is used.

וְאֶ֨ת\־ve.'Etand <obj.>H853
זָכָ֔רza.Khara maleH2145
לֹ֥אlo'notH3808
תִשְׁכַּ֖בtish.Kavyou will lie withH7901
מִשְׁכְּבֵ֣יmish.ke.Vei[the] lyings ofH4904
אִשָּׁ֑ה'i.Shaha womanH802
תּוֹעֵבָ֖הto.'e.Vah[is] an abominationH8441
הִֽוא\׃hi'itH1931

Source: STEPBible TAHOT/TAGNT (Tyndale House, CC BY 4.0).

Cross references for Leviticus 18:22

  • Leviticus 20:13

    If a man also lie with mankind, as he lieth with a woman, both of them have committed an abomination: they shall surely be put to death; their blood shall be upon them.

  • 1 Corinthians 6:9

    Know ye not that the unrighteous shall not inherit the kingdom of God? Be not deceived: neither fornicators, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor effeminate, nor abusers of themselves with mankind,

  • Romans 1:26-27

    For this cause God gave them up unto vile affections: for even their women did change the natural use into that which is against nature: And likewise also the men, leaving the natural use of the woman, burned in their lust one toward another; men with men working that which is unseemly, and receiving in themselves that recompence of their error which was meet.

  • 1 Timothy 1:10

    For whoremongers, for them that defile themselves with mankind, for menstealers, for liars, for perjured persons, and if there be any other thing that is contrary to sound doctrine;

  • Jude 1:7

    Even as Sodom and Gomorrha, and the cities about them in like manner, giving themselves over to fornication, and going after strange flesh, are set forth for an example, suffering the vengeance of eternal fire.

  • 1 Kings 14:24

    And there were also sodomites in the land: and they did according to all the abominations of the nations which the Lord cast out before the children of Israel.

  • Judges 19:22

    Now as they were making their hearts merry, behold, the men of the city, certain sons of Belial, beset the house round about, and beat at the door, and spake to the master of the house, the old man, saying, Bring forth the man that came into thine house, that we may know him.

  • Deuteronomy 23:18

    Thou shalt not bring the hire of a whore, or the price of a dog, into the house of the Lord thy God for any vow: for even both these are abomination unto the Lord thy God.

  • Genesis 19:5

    And they called unto Lot, and said unto him, Where are the men which came in to thee this night? bring them out unto us, that we may know them.

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Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
20:13; Ge 19:5; Jud 19:22; 1Ki 14:24; Ro 1:26,27; 1Co 6:9; 1Ti 1:10
Jude 1:7

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge (Samuel Bagster, c. 1836) · public domain

Context

  • Leviticus 18:21

    And thou shalt not let any of thy seed pass through the fire to Molech, neither shalt thou profane the name of thy God: I am the Lord.

  • Leviticus 18:22

    Thou shalt not lie with mankind, as with womankind: it is abomination.

  • Leviticus 18:23

    Neither shalt thou lie with any beast to defile thyself therewith: neither shall any woman stand before a beast to lie down thereto: it is confusion.

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Leviticus 18:22 in other languages

Spanish
Reina-Valera 1909
No te echarás con varón como con mujer: es abominación.
French
Bible J.N. Darby 1885
Tu ne coucheras point avec un mâle, comme on couche avec une femme: c’est une abomination.
German
Elberfelder 1871
Und bei einem Manne sollst du nicht liegen, wie man bei einem Weibe liegt: es ist ein Greuel.
Latin
Clementine Vulgate
Cum masculo non commiscearis coitu femineo, quia abominatio est.