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23 A man shall have no sexual intercourse with any female animal, thus defiling himself; and a woman must never give herself to a male animal, to mate with it; this is a terrible perversion.

24 “Do not defile yourselves in any of these ways, for these are the things the heathen do; and because they do them, I am going to cast them out from the land into which you are going. 25 That entire country is defiled with this kind of activity; that is why I am punishing the people living there, and will throw them out of the land.[a]

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  1. Leviticus 18:25 and will throw them out of the land, literally, “the land vomits out her inhabitants.”

23 “‘Do not have sexual relations with an animal and defile yourself with it. A woman must not present herself to an animal to have sexual relations with it; that is a perversion.(A)

24 “‘Do not defile yourselves in any of these ways, because this is how the nations that I am going to drive out before you(B) became defiled.(C) 25 Even the land was defiled;(D) so I punished it for its sin,(E) and the land vomited out its inhabitants.(F)

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