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Quotes from the KingJamesVersion, which I know is not precisely a great translation even though I love the language, which is kind of the point of quoting it - there's this scary little subset of fundamentalists who will happily assure you that this is the only ''real'' translation. - [[Brennen|B]]
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18:22 Thou shalt not lie with mankind, as with womankind: it is abomination.
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20:10 And the man that committeth adultery with another man's wife, even he that committeth adultery with his neighbour's wife, the adulterer and the adulteress shall surely be put to death.
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20:9 For every one that curseth his father or his mother shall be surely put to death: he hath cursed his father or his mother; his blood shall be upon him.
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20:13 If a man also lie with mankind, as he lieth with a woman, both of them have committed an abomination: they shall surely be put to death; their blood shall be upon them.
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20:15 And if a man lie with a beast, he shall surely be put to death: and ye shall slay the beast.
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:''Which seems kinda hard on the beast, but I'll admit it just might have been a reasonable sanitary measure, or at least seemed like one. And I suppose let us remember that in all seriousness these were herding people, and weird things are sometimes done with sheep, and it is probably not all that healthy to have sex with a sheep, and the threat of death probably seemed like a not-unreasonable deterrent to a goodly number of tribal elders.''
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20:16 And if a woman approach unto any beast, and lie down thereto, thou shalt kill the woman, and the beast: they shall surely be put to death; their blood shall be upon them.
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:''Anyone else get the feeling the beast is sort of an active participant in this one?''
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20:27 A man also or woman that hath a familiar spirit, or that is a wizard, shall surely be put to death: they shall stone them with stones: their blood shall be upon them.
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:''Not a whole lot of fun if you're schizophrenic, brain damaged, or suffering from Multiple Personality Disorder.''
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21:9 And the daughter of any priest, if she profane herself by playing the whore, she profaneth her father: she shall be burnt with fire.
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24:16 And he that blasphemeth the name of the LORD, he shall surely be put to death, and all the congregation shall certainly stone him: as well the stranger, as he that is born in the land, when he blasphemeth the name of the Lord, shall be put to death.
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