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In reply to the discussion: For anyone who actually read the Bible.... [View all]jmowreader
(53,220 posts)And in that place it makes sense: if you're going to have any Levites at all after twenty or thirty years, the kind of sex that doesn't produce healthy little Levites has to be stopped at all costs.
Go through Leviticus 18 and the proscription against sex with men is almost an afterthought. There are a number of different classes of women you are not allowed to have sex with under the Mosaic Law:
any close relative...and then they put in a lot of amplification lines: you are not to have sex with...
your mother
any other woman your father is married to
your sister, whether she's your father's daughter with a woman not your mother or your mother's daughter
daughters of your children
your father's sister
any of your father's brothers' wives
both a woman AND her daughter; pick one or the other, please
the sister of any of your own wives
your neighbor's wife
And after that, only then do they get to the part about having sex with men.