And you shall not lie with a male as one lies with a woman it is detestable. And with any animal, you shall not give your lying down with it for uncleanness (2930) with it. And a woman shall not stand before an animal, to lie with it; it is a shameful thing. Do not defile (2930) yourself with all these, for with all these the nations have been defiled (2930), which I am expelling before you and the land is defiled (2930) and I will visit its inequity on it.
In other words, by eating these unclean things, a person makes him or herself as spiritually defiled as if he or she were having sex with someone of the same sex or having sex with an animal. (Sort of changes ones perspective of things, doesn’t it?) Contextually speaking, if you want to make yourself abominable in the spiritual realm, have sex with a person not your spouse, or with someone of your own sex, or with an animal, or go have a ham sandwich. The resultant defilation is all the same according to God’s definition. Lest you believe that I have taken it out of context, I will conclude this chapter with the second passage found in Leviticus 20:25-26: And you shall make a difference between the clean animal, the unclean (2931), and between the unclean (2931) fowl and the clean. And you shall not defile your souls (spiritual defilement, friends) by beast or by fowl, or by anything which swarms the ground, which I have set apart to you as unclean (2930) – and you shall be holy to Me, for I, Jehovah, am holy; and I have set you apart from the nations to become Mine.22 (A LITERAL
TRANSLATION OF THE BIBLE) God says that He wants us to be holy people, as He is holy. A believer’s desire should be to be holy as God is holy. God alone knows how we are to do this, and if we read His Word and obey it 22
A LITERAL TRANSLATION OF THE BIBLE, Copyright 1985, by Jay P. Green, Sr.
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