“‘You shall not lie with a man, as with a woman. That is detestable.
⛓ Read Leviticus 18 forward — the whole chapter and its afterlife →Where this passage surfaces again, sorted by the strength of the link. Each kind of reuse — formal quotation, deliberate allusion, faint echo, figural pattern — carries its own mark. Follow any reference to read it in place.
Allusion3
A deliberate verbal borrowing without a citation formula.
The vice list's prohibition of men lying with men (arsenokoitai, v.9) is widely understood to be coined from the LXX of Lev 18:22 (meta arsenos ou koimethese koiten gynaikos). High volume via the rare compound term and strong coherence with the Holiness Code's catalog of exclusionary sins.
High confidence'The sexually immoral, homosexuals' draws on the Holiness Code's prohibition of male same-sex intercourse as part of the sexual-purity legislation behind the adultery commandment. Paul's term reflects the Septuagint phrasing of this statute. The Levitical law informs the vocabulary.
Medium confidenceSame-sex relations as 'against nature' resonates with the Holiness Code prohibition tied to Gentile/Canaanite abomination. Conceptual coherence strong; verbal contact via LXX vocabulary moderate.
Medium confidence