“Do not make yourselves unclean by any of these things, because all the nations which I am expelling ahead of you are defiled with them. The land has become unclean, and this is why I am punishing it — the land itself will vomit out its inhabitants. But you are to keep my laws and […]

“You are not to have sexual relations with any kind of animal and thus become unclean with it; nor is any woman to present herself to an animal to have sexual relations with it; it is perversion.”-Leviticus 18:23 The Lord’s rulings on prohibited sexual behavior conclude with a firm command against sex between humans and […]

“And you shall not let any of your descendants pass through the fire to Molech, nor shall you profane the name of your God: I am the Lord. You shall not lie with a male as with a woman. It is an abomination.”-Leviticus 18:21-22 The only way we’re going to comprehend the real meaning of […]

“‘You are not to let any of your children be sacrificed to Molekh, thereby profaning the name of your God; I am Adonai.”–Leviticus 18:21 Right smack dab in the list of prohibited sexual behaviors, we run into a commandment that doesn’t really seem to fit the rest. Or does it? I don’t think each of […]

“You are not to approach a woman in order to have sexual relations with her when she is unclean from her time of niddah. You are not to go to bed with your neighbor’s wife and thus become unclean with her.”-Leviticus 18:19-20 We are continuing on with our study of immoral sexual deeds in Leviticus […]