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Family and Sexual Offenses with Judicial Consequences
Where this fits in the story: Explicitly reworks/revisits Leviticus 18's kinship and sexual prohibitions.
Where Scripture takes it next: 1 Corinthians 5 strongly corresponds to the father's-wife prohibition.
Leviticus 18 lists prohibited sexual unions and practices; Leviticus 20 revisits many of the same offenses and adds judicial or covenant consequences. The two chapters are complementary: chapter 18 emphasizes prohibited conduct and land defilement, while chapter 20 emphasizes penalties, holiness, and separation from surrounding nations.
Leviticus 20 revisits many of Chapter 18's sexual prohibitions in a different legal form and supplies penalties. Their compositional relationship is debated, but the canonical correspondence is unmistakable.
Paul’s rare Greek term arsenokoitai in 1 Corinthians 6:9 is widely connected to the Greek Septuagint wording of Leviticus 18:22 and 20:13, where arsēn and koitē language occurs together. That lexical relationship is significant, but the precise semantic scope of Paul’s compound remains debated, so the connection should be presented as probable rather than treated as self-interpreting.
John's condemnation of Herod's marriage to his brother's wife belongs to Torah's prohibited-relationship framework. Exact family circumstances and whether Philip was living require historical precision.
In Matthew 15 Jesus cites the Torah’s command to honor father and mother and also the severe sanction against cursing one’s parents, using those texts to expose a tradition that nullified family obligation. Leviticus 20:9 supplies that sanction alongside the parallel wording in Exodus 21:17, so the connection is direct Torah quotation background.
The rare Greek arsenokoitai in 1 Timothy 1:10 strongly recalls the Septuagint wording of Leviticus 18:22 and especially 20:13, where arsen- and koit- occur in the prohibition of male-male intercourse.
Mark 7:10 directly quotes the Torah penalty for cursing father or mother while Jesus exposes a tradition that nullified the command to honor parents. Leviticus 20:9 is a direct source alongside the parallel wording in Exodus 21:17.
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