²²And you shall not lie with a male as lying with^b a woman; that is a detestable thing. ²³And you shall not have sexual relations^c with any animal, becoming unclean with it; and a woman shall not stand before^d an animal to copulate with it—that is a perversion.

²⁴“ ‘You must not make yourself unclean in any of these things, because the nations whom I am driving out from your presence were made unclean by all of these. ²⁵So^e the land became unclean, and I have brought the punishment of^f its guilt upon it, and the land has vomited out its inhabitants. ²⁶But^g you (neither the native nor^h the alien who is dwelling in your midst) shall keep my statutes and my regulations, and you shall not practiceⁱ any of these detestable things ²⁷(because the people of the land, who were before you,^j did all these detestable things, so the land became unclean), ²⁸so that the land will not vomit you out when you make it unclean just as it vomited out the nation that was before you.^k ²⁹Indeed, anyone who does any of these detestable things, even^l those persons who do so shall be cut off from the midst of their people. ³⁰Thus^m you shall keep my obligation to not do any of the statutes regardingⁿ the detestable things that they did before you,^o so that you will not make yourselves unclean by them; I am Yahweh your God.’ ”

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Footnotes

bLiterally “of”
cLiterally “give your lying down”
dLiterally “to the faces of”
eOr “And”
fLiterally “I have visited”
gOr “And”
hOr “and”
iLiterally “do”
jLiterally “to the faces of you”
kLiterally “to the faces of you”
lOr “and”
mOr “And”
nLiterally “of”
oLiterally “to the faces of you”