6 “None of you shall approach any one of his close relatives to uncover nakedness. I am the Lord. 7 You shall not uncover the nakedness of your father, which is the nakedness of your mother; she is your mother, you shall not uncover her nakedness. 8 You shall not uncover the nakedness of your father’s wife; it is your father’s nakedness. 9 You shall not uncover the nakedness of your sister, your father’s daughter or your mother’s daughter, whether brought up in the family or in another home. 10 You shall not uncover the nakedness of your son’s daughter or of your daughter’s daughter, for their nakedness is your own nakedness. 11 You shall not uncover the nakedness of your father’s wife’s daughter, brought up in your father’s family, since she is your sister. 12 You shall not uncover the nakedness of your father’s sister; she is your father’s relative. 13 You shall not uncover the nakedness of your mother’s sister, for she is your mother’s relative. 14 You shall not uncover the nakedness of your father’s brother, that is, you shall not approach his wife; she is your aunt. 15 You shall not uncover the nakedness of your daughter-in-law; she is your son’s wife, you shall not uncover her nakedness. 16 You shall not uncover the nakedness of your brother’s wife; it is your brother’s nakedness. 17 You shall not uncover the nakedness of a woman and of her daughter, and you shall not take her son’s daughter or her daughter’s daughter to uncover her nakedness; they are relatives; it is depravity. 18 And you shall not take a woman as a rival wife to her sister, uncovering her nakedness while her sister is still alive.
19 “You shall not approach a woman to uncover her nakedness while she is in her menstrual uncleanness. 20 And you shall not lie sexually with your neighbor’s wife and so make yourself unclean with her. 21 You shall not give any of your children to offer them to Molech, and so profane the name of your God: I am the Lord. 22 You shall not lie with a male as with a woman; it is an abomination. 23 And you shall not lie with any animal and so make yourself unclean with it, neither shall any woman give herself to an animal to lie with it: it is perversion.
This text always seems to catch me off guard. No it is not that Homosexuality is an abomination, I understand. You go through this long list of incestuous relationships, then basic adultery. But then verse 22 is what catches me off guard. This entire text seems to be talking about sexual immorality, but then we get children being offered to Molech.
Maybe I need to do some more studying, but I am pretty sure offering children to Molech was sacrificing these children. Moses equates this level of sexual immorality to idolatry, unbelief, or human sacrifice (of your own children). If this is true, Homosexuality (lying with a male as with a female) is idolatry.
When St Paul lists sins against God or ungodly ways of life, sexual immorality always seems to be at the top of the list. Moses takes us from incest, adultery, homosexuality, and beastuality, with the inclusion of idolatry. So the question should be to which abomination do fall prey? Which of these forms of sexual immorality consumes your thoughts?
Honestly, I do not really care. Because all of them are equally horrible. All of these things have the death penalty from God. But all things are possible with God. God sacrificed his only Son not to Molech, but for the forgiveness of your sins. Jesus died for the purification of abominable people. He died to to turn abominable people into new perfect people.
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