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The Hebrew Bible contains explicit prohibitions against sexual relations between men in Leviticus 18:22 and 20:13 6 7. These verses utilize the Hebrew word zakar (male), which refers to males in general rather than specific categories like boys 5. The text states, You shall not lie with a male as with a woman; it is an abomination 9. In Leviticus 20:13, both the ish (man) and the zakar (male) are described as equally guilty of an abomination and subject to the death penalty 2 13. While modern scholars debate specific hermeneutical contexts—such as whether the law originally targeted incest 1, temple prostitution 12, or unequal power dynamics 11—the literal text explicitly addresses and prohibits male same-sex intercourse 4 10.