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There were also sodomites in the land. They did according to all the abominations of the nations which the LORD drove out before the children of Israel.
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Verse 24. The effeminate. Catamites, or men addicted to unnatural lust. Challoner.—This crime had been punished in the Sodomites, and in the people of Chanaan, and of Benjamin. Yet they continued prevalent in the country. Calmet. 15:12. and 4 Kennicott. 23:7 and Isaiah 2:6 and 2 Maccabees 4:12. Calmet.—These were perpetrated in honour of Venus, Priapus, and so forth Menochius. See Deuteronomy 23:17. Bible.
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