[Editor’s Note – Sabbath School Lessons writer the Rev. Dr. L. Robert LaMay joined the ranks of Christ’s good and faithful servants on 29 December 2013 when he passed from this world into the arms of his Lord and Savior Jesus Christ. Please pray for the Christian Observer ...
Pre-Marital Sex Sexual relations are to be reserved for marriage. Exodus 22:16, 17 “If a man seduces a virgin who is not engaged to be married and lies with her, he shall give the bride-price for her and make her his wife. If her father utterly refuses to give her to him, he ...
Protecting Marriage The Law protects against the deep wickedness of the heart. Leviticus 20:14 “If a man takes a woman and her mother also, it is depravity; he and they shall be burned with fire, that there may be no depravity among you.” This statute is guards against a violation of marriage on ...
Inter-Familial Sex Forbidden (Again) More provisions against sex within families. Leviticus 20:20 “If a man lies with his uncle’s wife, he has uncovered his uncle’s nakedness; they shall bear their sin; they shall die childless.” Leviticus 20:12 “If a man lies with his daughter-in-law, both of them shall surely be put to death; they have ...
Guard Against All Adultery These statutes protected the community as a whole against adultery. Deuteronomy 22:30 “A man shall not take his father’s wife, so that he does not uncover his father’s nakedness.” 1 Corinthians 5:1, 2, 13 Leviticus 20:11 “If a man lies with his father’s wife, he has uncovered his father’s nakedness; both of ...
Adultery Adultery is strictly forbidden. Leviticus 20:10 “If a man commits adultery with the wife of his neighbor, both the adulterer and the adulteress shall surely be put to death.” Deuteronomy 22:22 “If a man is found lying with the wife of another man, both of them shall die, the man who lay with the ...
Inter-Familial Sex Forbidden God’s Law forbids sex within families. Leviticus 20:19 “You shall not uncover the nakedness of your mother’s sister or of your father’s sister, for that is to make naked one’s relative; they shall bear their iniquity.” Leviticus 20:21 “If a man takes his brother’s wife, it is impurity. He has uncovered his ...
Sex During Menstruation God’s Law mysteriously forbids sex during menstruation. Leviticus 18:19 “You shall not approach a woman to uncover her nakedness while she is in her menstrual uncleanness.” Leviticus 20:18 “If a man lies with a woman during her menstrual period and uncovers her nakedness, he has made naked her fountain, and she has ...
[Editor’s Note – Sabbath School Lessons writer the Rev. Dr. L. Robert LaMay joined the ranks of Christ’s good and faithful servants on 29 December 2013 when he passed from this world into the arms of his Lord and Savior Jesus Christ. Please pray for the Christian Observer ...
Sexual Purity Begins at Home Children must be taught to respect the sexuality of others. Leviticus 20:17 “If a man takes his sister, a daughter of his father or a daughter of his mother, and sees her nakedness, and she sees his nakedness, it is a disgrace, and they shall be cut off ...