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“‘You shall not lie with any animal to defile yourself with it. No woman may give herself to an animal, to lie down with it: it is a perversion.
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Verse 23. Crime. Hebrew “confusion.” The Egyptians did so with goats, as part of their religion. See Calmet. 20:16 and An. Univ. Hist. We need not, however, infer from this law, that the crime was common among the Jews, as Voltaire would insinuate. Bible.—Nothing but monsters can proceed from such wickedness. Menochius.
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