TITLE: PORNOGRAPHY, SEXUAL MORALITY,
HOMOSEXUALITY, CONCUBINAGE & THE BIBLE

An explanation, in terms of the Scriptures, as to why I believe
pornography consists of pictures/images/likenesses of
whores/harlots/prostitutues/lewd women whether they are buck
naked in xxx rated pictures/scenes/activities, or fully clothed in
formal suits and gowns;  and why I believe that the bottom line of
decency and modesty  for women involves at least the covering of
their loins, i.e. the area of their external genitalia (vulva), their anus,
and their rump "crack" (aka gluteous maximus);  why I believe that
pornography is not pictures/images/likenesses of Third World women
and beach women who are wearing only a loin cloth (covering their
external genitalia [vulva], anus and rump "crack"); and why I believe
that Biblical concubines, common law wives and secondary wives are
not mistresses/whores/harlots/ prostitutes.

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* Part One: SEXUAL MORALITY IN THE BIBLE
WHAT IS RIGHT AND GOOD BETWEEN A MAN AND A WOMAN?
Page 1

*Part Two: WHAT ACTS/DEEDS/THOUGHTS ARE  WRONG
BETWEEN A WOMAN AND A MAN?
Page 5

*Part Three: PORNOGRAPHY, WHAT IS IT AND WHAT DOES THE
BIBLE SAY ABOUT IT?  IS IT PORNOGRAPHY (WHORE PHOTOS)?
IS IT WRONG (SIN)?  WHAT IS PORNOGRPAHY IN THE LIGHT
OF ALL OF THE ABOVE?
Page 15

*IS IT PORNOGRAPHY?  A PERSONAL INVENTORY  P.22

* IS IT PORNOGRAPHY? A CHECK LIST.  P. 23

* CONCUBINES IN THE BIBLE, ARE THEY MISTRESSES AND SINNERS?
P.33

* RELATED AND SUPPORTING FILES AVAILABLE. P. 43
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* Part One: SEXUAL MORALITY IN THE BIBLE
WHAT IS RIGHT AND GOOD BETWEEN A MAN AND A WOMAN?

Proverbs 5:18  Let your  fountain* be blessed: and rejoice with the wife
of your youth.  19  [She should be as] the loving hind and pleasant roe;
Her breasts  [should] satisfy you at all times; and [you should] be
ravished~  always with her [erotic] lovemaking.
[Footnote * genitalia See note 18.1;    ~  [enraptrured/
intoxicated/orgasmic]

       1 � The song of songs, which [is] Solomon's.
�Her---         2 � [He should] kiss me with the kisses of His mouth;

�Them---        For Your lovemaking [is] better than wine.

�Her--- 4 Draw me.

�Them---        We will run after You.

�Her--- The King has brought me into his [private] chambers.

�Them---        We will be glad and rejoice in You.  We will
remember Your [affectionate] love more than wine.  The upright love
You.

�Her--- 5 I [am] black*, but comely, O daughters of Jerusalem, like
the tents of Kedar, like the curtains of Solomon.  6 Do not look on me,
that I [am] black*, that the sun has looked on me.

[footnotes * Black?  How black is black?  The bigots try to make this
into tanned or darkly tanned. For white folks in any shade, a tan is
brown, or dark brown.  How black is this black?  How black was she?
The word rendered �black� is the same word in Song 5:11 used to
describe the color of a raven.  My collegiate dictionary says that
ravens have a �lustrous black plumage�.         Not �brown�, not �dark
brown�, but LUSTROUS BLACK  as old Brer Crow and old
Eddie Poe�s raven that raps �nevah mo bro�.  No way around it, this
comely maiden was black, not blue black, but black as a raven.  Since
the world cultures, including China, SE Asia, India, Africa and Latin
America value lighter skin over darker skin, this black beauty is almost
as good a representative of �the Church�, or Israel, as is the passage
in Ezekiel 16:1-10, where the Church and Israel are shown to be
undesireable before God enters their lives, and even after God enters
their lives, they are still looked down upon and perhaps even despised
by the majority of the world..]

�Her--- 12 � While the King is in His circle, my spikenard gives its
smell.  13 A bundle of myrrh [is] my Beloved to me. [He] shall lie all
night between my breasts.  . . .

�Him--- 15 Behold, you [are] beautiful, my love; behold, you [are]
beautiful; you [have] doves' eyes.  16 Behold, you [are] beautiful, my
Beloved, yea, pleasant. Also our bed [is] green.

�Her--- 1 � I [am] the rose of Sharon, a lily of the valleys.

� Him---        2 As the lily among thorns, so [is] My love among the
daughters.

�Her--- 3 � As the apple among the trees of the wood, so [is] my
Beloved among the sons. I sat down under His shadow with great
delight, and His fruit [was] sweet to my taste.  . . 6 His left hand [is]
under my head, and His right hand embraces me.... 10 My Beloved
spoke, and said to me, "Rise up, My love, My beautiful one, and come
away."   I found [Him] whom my soul loves. I held Him and would not
let Him go, until I had brought Him into my mother's house, and into
the room of her who conceived me.

�Him--- 1 � Behold, you [are] beautiful, My love. Behold, you [are]
beautiful; your eyes [are] like doves' from behind your veil;  . . 3 Your
lips [are] like a cord of scarlet, and your speech [is] becoming; your
temples [are] like a piece of pomegranate behind your veil.    . . . 5 Your
two breasts [are] like two fawns, twins of a gazelle, feeding among
the lilies [you hold against your bosom].  6 Until when the day blows,
and the shadows flee away, I will go to the mountain* of myrrh and to
the hill~ of frankincense.     7 You [are] all fair, My love; no blemish [is]
in you.
[footnotes: *of one of her two breasts?;   ~of her other breast?]

�Him---......... 9 You have brought My heart to ecstasy, My sister,
[My] spouse; you have brought My heart to ecstasy with one of your
eyes, with one chain of your neck.  10 How fair is your love, My sister,
[My] spouse! How [much] better [are] your lovemakings than wine,
and the smell of your ointments than all spices! 11 Your lips, [My]
spouse, drop like the honeycomb; honey and milk [are] under
your tongue; and the smell of your garments [is] like the smell of
Lebanon. 12 A locked garden* [is] My sister, [My] spouse; a rock heap
locked up, a fountain~ sealed.
[footnotes: *speaking of her pubic genital area; locked denoting
chastity;  ~speaking of her genitalia, see notes 16.1 and 18.1; sealed
denoting chastity]

�Her--- �16 Awake, O north [wind]; and come, south [wind]; blow
on my garden*, so [that] the spices of it may flow out. Let my Beloved
come into His garden* and eat His pleasant fruits.
[footnotes: *speaking of her genitalia, see notes 16.1 and 18.1; her
pubic area]

*Him--- 1 � I have come into My garden*, My sister, [My] spouse;
I have gathered My myrrh with My spice; I have eaten My honeycomb
with My honey; I have drunk My wine with My milk. Eat, O friends;
drink, yea, drink abundantly.
[Footnote: *speaking of her genitalia, see notes 16.1 and 18.1?

�Her--- O Beloved!

�Her--- 10 My Beloved [is] bright and ruddy, . . 11 His head
[is like] the most fine gold, his locks [are] bushy [and] black* as a raven.
[Footnote: *The same word used of her color above]

�Her---...... 16 His mouth [is] most sweet; yes, He [is] altogether
lovely. This [is] my Beloved.  2 My Beloved has gone down to His
garden*, to the beds of spices, to feed in the gardens* and to gather
lilies. 3 I [am] my Beloved's, and my Beloved [is] mine; He feeds among
the lilies~.
[Footnotes:  *speaking of her , see notes 16.1 and 18.1;       ~ Apparently
affectionate attention to her breasts and belly.  See 4:5 Your two
breasts [are] like two fawns...feeding among the lilies. 7:2....your belly
[is like] a heap of wheat set about with lilies]

�Him--- 4 � O my love, you [are] as beautiful as Tirzah, as lovely
as Jerusalem,.......  1 � How beautiful [are] your feet in sandals, O
prince's daughter! The curves of your thighs [are] like jewels . . . . 2
Your navel [is like] a round goblet, which never lacks mixed wine; your
belly [is like] a heap of wheat set about with lilies. 3 Your two breasts
[are] like two fawns, twins of a gazelle. . . . . the hair of your head like
purple cloth; the King [is] held captive in its tresses. 6 How beautiful
and how pleasant you  [are], O love, for delights! 7 Your stature is like
a palm tree*, and your breasts [are] like clusters [of grapes]. 8 I said, I
will go up in the palm tree*, I will take hold of its stalk. And please let
your breasts be like clusters of the vine, and the smell of your nose like
apples; 9 and the roof of your mouth like the best wine for my Beloved,
that goes [down] smoothly for My Beloved, flowing softly
[over] the lips of sleeping ones.
[Footnotes:   *If her �stature is like a palm tree, and [her] breasts [are]
like clusters [of grapes].� then this describes some pretty intimate
activity,i.e. Prov. 5:19  �let her breasts* satisfy you at all times; and be
ravished [enraptrured/intoxicated] always with her [erotic] love.�]

�Her--- 10 � I [am] my Beloved's, and His desire [is] toward me.
11 Come, my Beloved, let us go out into the field; let us stay in the
villages. 12 Let us rise up early to the vineyards; . . .there I will give
You my lovemakings. 13 The love-apples give a scent, and over our
doors [are] all pleasant [fruits], new and old, which I have laid up for
You, O my Beloved.............3 His left hand [would be] under my head,
and His right embrace me. ......... 10 I [was] a wall, and my breasts like
towers; then I was in His eyes as one finding peace. ...............
14 Hurry, my Beloved, and be like a gazelle, or a young
deer, the stag, on the mountains* of spices.
[Footnotes: *  [her breasts] 5 Your two breasts [are] like two fawns,
twins of a gazelle, feeding among the lilies.  6 Until when the day
blows, and the shadows flee away, I will go to the mountain of myrrh
and to the hill of frankincense. [her breasts]]

*Part Two: WHAT ACTS/DEEDS/THOUGHTS ARE WRONG
BETWEEN A WOMAN AND A MAN?

���1. A wife should take hold of no other male's genitalia except
for those of her own husband. MKJV DEUT. 25:11 When men
strive together with one another, and the wife of the one draws
near to deliver her husband out of the hand of him who strikes
him, and puts forth her hand and takes him by the secret parts,
12 then you shall cut off her hand. Your eye shall not pity.

The scriptures above are clear that the only person who should
touch/work/caress/use the breasts, vulva, vagina, anus and rump of a
female isher own male, her own husband, her only partner for sexual
delight.The scriptures above are also clear that a wife should not
touch/work/caress/use the genitals of any other male besides her own
male, her own husband, her only partner for sexual delight (except for
her male infants or patients who are unable to clean etcl their own
genitalia/anus).But what do the scriptures say about an unmarried
female touching/working/caressing/using the genitalia of her
friend/lover, which lover is very careful not to touch/work/
caress/use her breasts, vulva, vagina, anus and rump since she is not
yet his own wife/concubine?

[The footnotes like "7901" are in the Appendix of Footnotes]
�       Ex 22:16 And if a man  entice  a maid  that is not betrothed , and
lie  down [i.e. have sexual relations] with her7901 , he shall surely
endow her to be his wife .

�       Le 15:18 The woman also with whom [a] man shall
lie down [have sexual relations] 7901 [with] seed/semen2233  of
copulation/effusion/ejaculation7902 , they shall [both] bathe
[themselves] in water , and be unclean  until the even.

�       Le 15:24 And if any man lie down [i.e. have sexual relations]
with her7901 at all , and her fluids5079  be upon him, he shall be
unclean seven days;  . . . . .

�       Num. 5: 13 And a man lie down [have sexual relations] 7901
with her with semen/effusion7902  2233 , and it be hid  from the eyes of
her husband , and be kept close, and she be defiled2930 , and [there be]
no witness against her, neither she be taken  [with the manner]; . . . .

�       De 22:29 Then the man  that lay down [had sexual relations]
7901 with her shall give unto the damsel's father fifty [shekels] of
silver, and she shall be his wife; because he has afflicted/humbled6031
her [in sexual connection], he may  not put her away <07971> (8763)
all his days <03117>.

�       Le 18:23 Neither shall you  copulate7903  with any beast to
defile2930 yourself with it: .. . . . neither shall any woman stand
<05975> (8799) before  a beast  to lie down with it [for copulation]7250

�       Le 20:13 If a man also lie down [have sexual relations]7901  with
mankind, as he lies down [has sexual contact 4904] with a woman  ,
both of them have committed  an abomination : they shall surely be
put to death ; their blood  [shall be] upon them.

�       Le 20:15 And if a man employ/designate/set/commit5414 a beast
[for copulation], he shall surely  be put to death : and you shall slay  the
beast.

�       Ezek. 23: 3 And they fornicated [had sexual intimacy outside of
their own proper marriages <02181> (8799)] in Egypt; they committed
fornications [had sexual intimacy outside of their own proper
marriages <02181> (8799)]  in their youth: there were their
breasts/nipples7699 pressed/squeezed/bruised4600 , and
there they did/pressed/squeezed6213  the breasts/nipples/teats1717  of
their virginity1331.

�       Eze 23:8 Neither left she her fornications [sexual intimacy
outside of their own proper marriages<08457>] [brought] from
Egypt : for in her youth they [sexually/sensually] lay down7901 with
her, and they did/pressed/squeezed6213 the breasts/nipples/teats1717
of the proofs of her virginity1331, and poured their fornications
<08457> upon her. . . . .Yet she multiplied her harlotries, remembering
the days of her youth, when she played the harlot in the land of Egypt.
And she desired the forbidden of her immoral lovers, whose genitals
are like those of donkeys and who ejaculation is like the ejaculation of
horses.  21 Thus you called to remembrance the lewdness <02154> of
thy youth , in doing/pressing/squeezing6213  your
breasts/nipples/teats1717  by the Egyptians for the breasts/teats7699
of thy youth <05271>.

�        Le 20:18 And if a man shall [sexually/sensually] lie7901  with a
woman having her sickness , and shall uncover1540 her external
genitalia6172 ; he has made her FOUNTAIN4726  naked6168 , and she
hath uncovered <01540> (8765) the FOUNTAIN4726 of her blood:
and both of them shall be cut off  from among their people.

�       Prov. 5: 18 Your FOUNTAIN4726 should be blessed <01288>
(8803): and rejoice <08055> (8798) with the wife of your youth. 19 [She
should be as] the loving  hind and pleasant  roe ; her
breasts/nipples<1717>  should satisfy/satiate/intoxicate <7301>  you
at all times <06256>; and be swerved/meandered/reeled/
rolled/intoxicated7686  always <08548> with her love/desire160 .
7901 sexually/sensually lie down with her <07901> (8804)

07901 shakab Strong's {shaw-kab'}a primitive root; v
1) to lie down [Young's also]
  1a) (Qal 8802,8804)
      1a1) to lie, lie down , lie on
      1a3) to lie (of sexual relations [personal actions on vulva/breast/
nipple])
Davidson/Bagster: To lie with carnally [sexual/sensual acts on
vulva/breast]
Tyler: At least about sexual/sensual actions on the vulvua/breasts.

The usage of 7901 in Lev. 20:13 shows that this intimacy is not limited
to lying down with your lover, since many of the male to male sexual
positions of homosexuality (oral sex, anal sex, genital petting) are
done in other positions than those associated with lying down.  Only
the most blind and foolish would use these passages to say that only
the heterosexual intimacy without marriage and homosexual activity
that are done in a prone (lying down) position are sin.  Obviously this
concept of "[sexually/sensually] lie  down with her7901]" is one of all
genital relations whether sitting, standing, kneeling,  or leaning.  For
sure it means any kind of penetration of another's body (breast in
mouth, genital in genital, genital in mouth, genital in anus) in any
position.   Consider the following:

Gen. 38:15 When Judah saw her, he thought her [to be] an harlot,
because she had covered her face. 16 And he turned to her by the
wayside, and said, "Here no, I ask you, let me come in you (enter you,
go in you 0935)" (for he knew not that she [was] his daughter in law).
And she said, "What will you give me, so that you may come in me
(enter me, go in me 0935)?" 17 And he said, "I will send [thee] a kid
from the flock." And she said, "Will you give [me] a pledge, until you
send [it]?"  18 And he said, "What pledge shall I give thee?" And she
said, "Your signet, and your bracelets, and your staff that [is] in your
hand." And he gave [it] to her, and came in her (entered her, went in
her 0935), and she conceived by him.
[0935 bow' {bo}  a primitive root; TWOT - 212; v
1) to go in, enter
  1a) (Qal)
      1a1) to enter, come in]

There is no scripture that I am aware of that
would extend this passage to include a female's sensual/sexual acts
on/with the penis of her friend/lover that don't involve her vulva
and/or breasts.  However, the fact that Lev. 15:18, 24 are linked with
Ex. 22:16 in the act of sexual relations with a woman
"[sexually/sensually] lie  down with her7901]", it would seem logical
that SINCE it is not a sin for man to sexually/sensually lie down with
his own woman  with seed/semen of copulation/effusion/ejaculation,
AND SINCE it is a sin for a man to sexually/sensually lie down with a
woman who does not become his own woman, THEN IT PROBABLY
IS WRONG/SIN for a man to sexually/sensually lie down  with
seed/semen of copulation/ effusion/ejaculation with a woman (the
sperm on/in her hands, mouth, anus, between her breasts or any other
part of her body) who does not become his own woman or  isn't his
own woman.  This apparently indicates that penis petting or
mouthing  (with sperm effusion/ejaculation) by a woman who does
not become your own, or already is your own, is wrong/sin/error.


���2.Sexual intercourse, handling of breasts, working nipples
outside of marriage are sin: Ezekiel 23: 1 � The word of the
LORD came again to me, 2 Son of man, there were two women,
the daughters of one mother. 3 And they had-sex-outside-of-
their-marriages in Egypt; they had-sex-outside-marriage in their
youth, their breasts were handled, and there their virgin nipples
were worked.  5 .... And she desired-to-do-the-forbidden-with her
lovers, to [her] Assyrian neighbors,  . . . 7 So she bestowed her
sex-outside-of-her-marriage on them, the choice sons of Assyria;
[with] all of them, and with all with whom she desired-to-do-
the-forbidden; she defiled herself with all their idols. 8 Nor did
she leave her sexual-intimacies-outside-of-marriage from Egypt.
For in her youth they sexually lay with her, and they worked her
virgin nipples, and poured their sexual-intimacies-outside-of-
marriage on her.   . . . .20 And she desired-to-do-the-forbidden on
her lovers, whose penis is like the penis of asses and whose
[ejaculated] sperm [is like] the [ejaculated sperm] of horses. 21 So
you longed for the wickedness of your youth, when the
Egyptians worked your nipples, for the sake of the breasts of your
youth.

���3. Only a husband should uncover his own wife's genitals
Ezekiel 23:17 And the Babylonians came to her into the bed of
love, and they defiled her with sexual-intimacies-outside-of-
marriage. And she was defiled with them, and her mind was
alienated from them. 18 So she uncovered her sexual-
intimacies-outside-of-marriage and uncovered her genitals. . . .29
And they shall deal with you in hatred, and shall take away all
your labor, and shall leave you naked and bare. And the exposed
genitals of your sexual-intimacies-outside-of-marriage shall be
uncovered, both your wickedness and your sexual-intimacies-
outside-of-marriage.
Ezekiel 16:35 � Therefore, O woman-having-sex-outside-of-
marriage, hear the word of the LORD. 36 So says the Lord
Jehovah: Because your lewdness was poured out and your
genitals were bared in your sexual-intimacies-outside-of-
marriage with your lovers, ... 37 behold, therefore I will gather
all your lovers, with whom you have been pleased, even all
[whom] you loved, with all whom you have hated; I will even
gather them against you from all around, and will uncover your
genitalia to them, and they will see all your genitals. 39 And I
will also give you into their hand, and they will tear down your
mound, and will demolish your high places. They shall also
strip you of your clothes, and shall take your beautiful things,
and leave you naked and bare. . . . . 40 They shall also raise a
company against you, and they shall stone you with stones, and
cut you with their swords. 41 And they shall burn your houses
with fire, and execute judgments on you in the sight of many
women.

���4. You shouldn't have orgasms with a woman nor embrace
the breasts/ genitalia of a woman who is not your wife
� Proverbs 5:18.  Let your fountain be blessed: and rejoice
with the wife of your youth.  19.  [Let her be as] the loving hind
and pleasant roe; let her breasts* satisfy you at all times; and be
ravished [enraptrured/intoxicated] always with her [erotic] love.
20.  And why will you, my son, be 13>ravished  with some
14>alien woman, and embrace the 15>bosom/lap of a  16>stranger?
21.  For the ways of man [are] before the eyes of the LORD, and he
ponders all his goings. 22.  His own iniquities shall take the
wicked himself, and he shall be held with the cords of his sins.
[FOOTNOTE:13>enraptrured/intoxicated/orgasm; see note 20:1;
14>  [ZAR=STRANGER {PRV.2:16;5:3,10,17,20; 6:1}ALIEN]
15>  [CHEQ=INLET:BOSOM {GEN.16:5; EX.
4:6,7;DT.13:6;28:54,56;2 SAM.12:3,8;1 KG.1:2;3:20} BOTTOM {LAP,
HOLLOW PART: AT THE BASE/GROUND EZK.43:13,14}, LAP
{BOSOM, CENTER:PRV.16:33}, MIDST; 1. in a conjugal
sense,feelings affections; 2. in a dishonest sense prv5:20; 3.bosom,
lappet of a garment; 4. inside/hollow place in a chariot or
altarEZ43:13]  . Ron note: the vagina is an hollow part & inlet
between the lap and the bottom16> [NOKRI= STRANGE, A
STRANGER OR FOREIGNER:ALIEN {UNKNOWN:DT. 14:21},
FOREIGNER {UNKNOWN:DT. 15:3}, OUTLANDSH {NEH.13:26};
STRANGE + STRANGER= {RUTH 2:10; 1 KI. 11:1,8; EZ. 2:10;PRV.
2:16;5:10; 6:24; 7:5; 20:16; 23:27}.]

� Ezekiel 16:15 � But you trusted in your beauty, and had-sex-
outside-of-her-marriage because of your name, and poured out
your sexual-intimacy-outside-of-marriage on all who passed by;
[your genitals were] his.  . . . .25 You have built your high place at
the head of every way, and have made your beauty to be
despised, and have opened your feet [for sex] to everyone who
passed by, and have multiplied your sexual-intimacies-outside-
of-marriage.

� 1 Corinthians 6:9 � Do you not know that unrighteous [persons]
shall not inherit [the] kingdom of God? Do not err: neither
1>fornicators, nor idolaters, nor 2>adulterers , ...shall inherit
[the] kingdom of God.  1 Corinth. 6:13  ... the body [is] not for
sexual sin, but for the Lord, and the Lord for the body. 15  Do you
not know that your bodies are members of Christ? Shall I then,
taking the members of the Christ, make [them] members of a
female-who-does-sex-outside- of-marriage? Far be the thought.
16  Do you not know that he [that is] joined to the female-who-
does-sex-outside- of-marriage is one body? for the two, he says,
shall be one flesh. 17  But he that [is] joined to the Lord is one
Spirit. 18  Flee sex- outside-of-marriage. Every sin which a man
may practise is without the body, but he that commits sex-
outside-of-his-own-marriage, sins against his own body.
[FOOTNOTES:1>those who have sexual intimacy outside of their
own marriage or without being married; a whore is also a female
who does sexual sin for free or who pays for it.                2
>those who have sexual intimacy either with someone other
than their own mate or repudiate their mates to take other
mates]

���5. Using pictures, videos, films, tapes, books, magazines or etc.
for imagining sexual intercourse/connection/intimacy with someone
else besides your own mate is sin.
� Ezekiel 16:16 And you took from your clothes and adorned your high
places with different colors, and did  sexual-intimacy-outside-of-
marriage on them, [such as] had not come, nor shall be. 17 And you
have taken beautiful things of My gold and of My silver, which I had
given you, and made images of males, and had sexual-intimacy-
outside-of-marriage with them.

���6. PAYING/REWARDING IN ANY WAY SOMEONE WHO
IS NOT YOUR MARITAL PARTNER TO BE SEXUALLY
INTIMATE WITH YOU IS SEXUAL SIN.
�Ezekiel 16:30 How weak is your heart, says the Lord
Jehovah, since you do all these, the work of a woman, an
overbearing woman-who-has-sex-without-marriage; 31   . . . . Yet
you have not been as a woman-who-has-sex-without-marriage,
scorning wages. 32 [Like] the adulterous wife, instead of her
husband, she takes strangers. 33 They give a gift to all women-
who-have-sex-without-marriage, but you give your gifts to all
your lovers, and bribe them to come to you from all around, for
your 3>fornication. 34 And in you was the opposite from [those]
women in your 3>fornications, since no one 4>whores after you,
and in your giving wages, and hire is not given to you. [In] this
you are opposite. 41 And they shall burn your houses with fire,
and execute judgments on you in the sight of many women.
And I will make you stop having-sex-outside-of-your-marriage;
and also, you shall not give hire again.
[footnotes:3> [those who have sexual intimacy outside of their
own marriage or without being married ] a whore is also a
female who does sexual sin for free or who pays         for it;  4> a whore
is also a female who does sexual sin for free or who
pays for it]

���7. Homosexuality and sodomy are sin

Homosexuality, lesbianism and sex with animal are sin, a falling short
of the standard set by God; trespass and transgression, going across
God's boundaries, going beyond His limits.

�1Ki 14:24 And there were also sodomites <6945>in the land: [and]
they did according to all the abominations of the nations which the
LORD cast out before the children of Israel.
06945 qadesh {kaw-dashe'}
1) male temple prostitute [The worshipper of the god has sexual
relations with the temple prostitute as part of his/her worship
of the temple god, and gives an offering to the prostitute as a
priest of the god]
1Ki 15:12 And he took away the sodomites <6945> out of the land, and
removed all the idols that his fathers had made.
1Ki 22:46 And the remnant of the sodomites<6945>, which remained
in the days of his father Asa, he took out of the land.
2Ki 23:7 And he brake down the houses of the sodomites<6945>, that
[were] by the house of the LORD, where the women wove hangings
for the grove.

�       Le 18:23 Neither shall you  copulate <7903> with any beast to
[sexually] defile <2930> yourself with it: .. . . . neither shall any
woman stand <05975> (8799) before  a beast  to lie down with it [for
copulation] <7250> . . . .
07903 shekobeth Strong's {shek-o'-beth}from 07901; n f
1) copulation [FunkWagnall: 1. sexual intercourse/connection;
coition.  2. A coupling or being coupled; union]
Young's: To give an effusion  [sperm ejaculation, especially the
sperm entering another body cavity]

�       Le 20:13 If a man also [sexually/sensually] lie down <7901>
with mankind, as he lies down <4904> with a woman [for sexual
contact] ,
both of them have committed  an abomination : they shall surely be
put to death ; their blood  [shall be] upon them.

........07901 shakab Strong's {shaw-kab'}a primitive root; v
........1) to lie down [Young's also]
........   1a) (Qal 8802,8804)
........       1a1) to lie, lie down , lie on
........       1a3) to lie (of sexual relations [personal actions on
........vulva/breast/ nipple])
........Davidson/Bagster: To lie with carnally [sexual/sensual acts on
........vulva/breast]
........Tyler: At least about sexual/sensual actions on the
........vulvua/breasts.

........04904 mishkab {mish-kawb'} from 07901; TWOT - 2381c; n m
........1) a lying down, couching, biering, act of lying
........   1a) couching, bedding
........   1b) act of lying, lying down
.........  1c) lying down (for sexual contact)

�       Le 20:15 And if a man employ/designate/set/commit <5414> a
beast [for copulation], he shall surely  be put to death : and you shall
slay  the beast.

�       1 Cor. 6: 9 � Do you not know that the unrighteous shall not
inherit [the] kingdom of God? Do not be deceived; neither fornicators
[doing the above with women] , nor idolaters [those who have other
Gods than Jesus], nor adulterers [those who sexually have someone
else's mate],  nor abusers [catamites, those (boys/males)1 who let
themselves be used homosexually (including women?)**], nor [male]
homosexuals [sodomites], 10 nor thieves, nor covetous [those not
content with what God has provided], nor drunkards [addicts], nor
revilers [verbal abusers], nor extortioners, shall inherit [the] kingdom
of God. 11 And such were some of you. But you are washed, but you
are sanctified, but you are justified in the name of the Lord Jesus, and
by the Spirit of our God.
[** Romans 1:26 For this  cause God  gave  them  up unto vile
affections : for even their  women <2338> did change <3337> (5656)
the natural <5446> use
<5540> into  that which is against <3844> nature <5449>:
3337 metallasso {met-al-las'-so}1) to exchange, change
5656 Tense - Aorist          Voice - Active            Mood  - Indicative
This means that once and for all they exhanged or changed their
natural use for the unnatural, which for sure means having sex with
animals (Lev. 18) and includes lesbianism.

       The equivalence that God gave is as clear as 2 + 3 = 5 = 3 + 2 = 5
I wont bother* you with all the Greek usage, definitions and cross
references, but God's use of a verbal = sign in Rom. 1:27 ("and
likewise", "and in equal manner") shows that the conduct graphically
described in Rom. 1:27 is the same behavior vaguely described in Rom.
1:26 (same sex genital to genital, same sex genital to mouth or anus).
That would make any form of lesbianism, including bisexuality, as
disgraceful and contrary to God's design as homosexuality.

        1 Corinthians 6:9 � Do you not know that unrighteous
[persons] shall not inherit [the] kingdom of God? Do not err:
neither 5>fornicators, nor idolaters, nor 6>adulterers, nor
7>males-who-make-women-of-themselves, nor 8>those who
9>abuse themselves  with male persons, 10. ......shall inherit
[the] kingdom of God.
1 Tim.1:8  Now we know that the law [is] good if any one
uses it lawfully,
9. knowing this, that law has not its application to a
righteous person, but to [the] lawless and insubordinate, to
[the] impious and sinful, to [the] unholy and profane, to
smiters of fathers and smiters of mothers; to murderers,10
10>fornicators, 11>sodomites, kidnappers, liars, perjurers;
and if any other thing is opposed to sound teaching, 11
according to the glad tidings of the glory of the blessed God,
with which *I* have been entrusted.  See Jude 7 also.

[FOOTNOTES:5>[those who have sexual intimacy outside of
their own marriage or without being married ] a whore is
also a female who does sexual sin for free or who pays  for
it;             6> [those who have sexual intimacy either with
someone other than their own mate or repudiate their mates
to take other mates];   7>  [catamite homosexuals];     8> [male
homosexuals/ pederasts/sodomites];      9>  [sodomize]; 10>
See footnote #5;        11>  [male homosexual]

From the above I conclude that pornography includes
pictures/images/films of males who are "whores" for other males, of
males who are intimate with each others (male-male) genitals, and
males who "prostitute" themselves for/to other males; and
pictures/images/films of females who are "whores" for other females,
of females who are intimate with the genitals of other females, and
females who "prostitute" themselves for/to other females.

IS IT PORNOGRAPHY (WHORE PHOTOS)? IS IT WRONG
(SIN)?  WHAT IS PORNOGRPAHY IN THE LIGHT OF THE
ABOVE (EZEK. 16 & 23; PROV. 5, 6 & 7)?

Pornography is not a matter of immodesty, according to the
context of
DBY 1Ti 2:9* In like manner also that the women in decent
deportment and dress adorn themselves with modesty and
discretion, not with plaited [hair] and gold, or pearls, or costly
clothing,

The modesty there is the modesty of  kosmios {kos'-mee-os}
which means "well arranged, seemly, modest", and the modesty
in that context is the modesty of not having fancy hair styles, or
wearing of costly gold, pearls or clothing.  It is the modesty of
humility.

We have seen above that it is lewd and ungodly for a woman to
show (for enjoyment) her vulva, vagina, buttocks/rump crack to any
one except her own Biblically proper husband (Ezek. 16 & 23; Jer.
13:22,26; Hos. 2:3; Nahum 3:5; Isa. 3:17; Rev. 3:18).    We have found
that there is no explicit, specific or direct command for a woman
to cover her breasts, except for the principles of Romans 14.  Is
there any other part of the woman's body that is not to be seen by
someone else besides her own husband?  What about this
passage----

�Isa. 47:1  1 � Come down, and sit on the dust, O virgin daughter of
Babylon; sit on the ground. [There is] no throne [for you], O daughter
of the Chaldeans. For you shall no more be called tender and
delicate.2 Take the millstones , and grind meal <07058>: remove
<01540> (8761) your veil <06777>, strip off <02834> (8798) the
flowing skirt <07640>, uncover/reveal/show/lay bare <01540> (8761)
the thigh/leg <07785>, pass over the rivers . 3 Your nudity/pudenda
<06172> shall be uncovered/shown/revealed <01540> (8735), yes,
your shame/reproach <02781> shall be seen : I will take  vengeance ,
and I will not meet  [you as] a man .  [See the <footnotes> in the
Appendix of footnotes]
Obviously  the context indicates that the raising of the skirt and the
uncovering of the leg revealed her genitalia, so it does not
include the uncovering of the leg when the genitalia are
properly covered.

Isaiah 20 and its cross references (2 Sam. 10:4; 1 Chron. 19:4)
seem to indicate that it is a shame, a falling short of his mark, an
error, a sin for one's buttocks/rump, especially the "valley of the
anus", to be seen in public.  "Mooning" is an example of
this.  Phil. 4:8 with Romans 1:31,32 would seem to indicate the
error in taking pleasure in the public exposure of someone else's
bottocks/rump.  If the angle is right (a woman bent over), such
exposure of the buttocks/rump also involves the exposure of the
genitals, and that is double error/trouble.

       Understood that the Greek word porneia (our porno)
indicates a harlot/whore/adulteress----any woman who lets
someone else besides her own Biblically proper husband
enjoy/see/touch/caress/handle/ fondle/ work/ use/ lick/suck
her breasts, nipples, vulva, vagina and buttocks/rump.  Of
course pornography includes the man who
enjoys/sees/touches/crasses/ handles/ fondles/works/
uses/licks/ sucks the breasts, nipples, vulva, vagina and
buttocks/rump of any woman who is not his Biblically proper
wife. Understood that "graphy" of pronography is the word
indicating pictures/ words/symbols/images/likenesses.  So
pornography consists of pictures/
words/symbols/images/likenesses of the woman described
above, and the man described above. So any pictures of this kind
of woman or man would be Biblical pornography, even if they
were dressed up or in  bathing suits.

Pictures/words/symbols/images/likenesses of lewd women not
know to be harlots are also pornography (see Jer. 11 & 13; Ezekiel
16, 23 & 24; Hosea 6).  A lewd woman is one who uses her body get you
to mentally enjoy/see/ touch/caress/handle/ fondle/ work/ use/
lick/suck her breasts, nipples, vulva, vagina and buttocks/rump.   She
may not show her vulva, vagina or buttocks/rump, but her
plan, device, wickedness, evil plan, mischievous purpose is to
get you (male or female) to mentally enjoy/see/
touch/caress/handle/ fondle/ work/ use/ lick/suck her breasts,
nipples, vulva, vagina and buttocks/rump.  So pornography
consists of pictures/words/ symbols/images/likenesses of the
lewd woman described above. So any pictures of this kind of
woman  would be Biblical pornography, even if she were dressed
up or in  bathing suits.

Understood that the Greek word porneia (our porno) indicates a
man who acts like a harlot/whore/adulteress----any man who
lets another man enjoy/see/touch/caress/handle/ fondle/
work/ use/ lick/suck his genital and/or buttocks/rump; or who
lets someone else's wife enjoy/see/touch/caress/handle/
fondle/ work/ use/ lick/suck his genital and/or buttocks/rump;
or who publicly shows his genitals (Gen. 35:11; 37:34;Jer 30:6 ;Jer
48:37 Eze 44:18; Acts 2:30; Heb. 7:10). Understood that "graphy" of
pronography is the word indicating pictures/words/symbols/
images/likenesses.  So pornography consists of
pictures/words/symbols/ images/likenesses of the man
described above. So any pictures of this kind of man would be
Biblical pornography, even if he were dressed up or in  bathing
suits.

From Romans 1 and 1 Cor. 6 we know that
Pictures/words/symbols/images/ likenesses of lewd men not
know to be homosexuals adulterers or whoremongers are also
pornography (see Jer. 11 & 13; Ezekiel 16, 23 & 24; Hosea 6).    A
lewd man is one who uses his body get you (male or female) to
mentally enjoy/see/ touch/caress/handle/ fondle/ work/ use/
lick/suck her breasts, nipples, vulva, vagina and buttocks/rump.
His plan, device, wickedness, evil plan, mischievous purpose is
to get males to mentally enjoy/see/ touch/caress/ handle/
fondle/ work/ use/ lick/suck his genital and buttocks/rump;
and to get women not married to him to imagine his genital in
connection with her breasts, vulva, vagina or buttocks/rump.
So pornography consists of pictures/words/
symbols/images/likenesses of the lewd man described above. So
any pictures of this kind of man  would be Biblical pornography,
even if he were dressed up or in  bathing suits.

  If you do a study of the words "bare" and "naked" you see a
significant difference.  A woman who is bare or bared is a
woman exposing her vulva/genitals/vagina/ buttocks/rump for
the enjoyment of some one
other than her own Biblically proper husband, and this is the
error/sin/shame of lewdness.  It is being naked and bare
(exposure of vulva, vagina, buttocks/rump) that is the error/sin.
The repentance of such lewdness is to stop doing it (Prov. 28:13)

No where in the Bible is a woman condemned or denounced for
being naked, but having been found naked inappropriately, the
remedy is covering or clothing appropriately worn.    In the Bible
anyone who is naked in public is instructed to cover at least their
penis, vulva, vagina, and/or buttocks/rump.   Pictures and
images of publicly naked women or men who are not sex-
sinners are pictures of people who have missed God's mark
(sinned) for their public appearance.  If such nude pictures are
not of harlots and sex-sinners, then those pictures are not
pornography, but they fall short of God's standards and
requirements.  To take pleasure in and enjoy  pictures/images of
naked people
is to partake in their error (sin) (Romans 1:31,32; 1 Cor. 5 & 6).

PORNOGRAPHY IS NOT
pictures/words/symbols/images/likenesses of a  woman who
covers only her vagina/vulva/buttocks/rump and who is  a
woman who lets only her own proper husband
touch/caress/handle/fondle/ work/ use/lick/suck her breasts,
nipples, vulva, vagina and buttocks/rump.  There is no
scriptural denunciation or condemnation of topless women,
women or fashion models or photo models in bikini type
garments, women with only loin cloths on, who let only their
own proper husbands touch/caress/handle/fondle/work/
use/lick/suck her breasts, nipples, vulva, vagina and
buttocks/rump; who do not "bare" or expose their vulvas,
vaginas, buttocks/rumpes; and who do not use their bodies to
cause others to imagine sex sin with them.

However any such woman, especially in countries like America,
needs to carefully examine the way they cover themselves in
light of Romans 14 and the command to unselfishly and
compassionately cherish their brothers and sisters in Christ.  The
Romans 14 principles that permit the
African/Indian/Chinese/Burmese/Tahitian women to go
topless and semi-nude in their communities as they do their
daily activities, are the same Romans 14 principles that would
move the American "sisters"  to cover well their breasts, buttox
and thighs when around "brothers" in a fellowship setting.

If you are in a country or culture (South Pacific, Bali, SE Asia,
India, China, Africa, Latin American Indians, aborigines,
Japanese pearl divers etc.) where women are often topless for
breast feeding, to keep cool, or because that is the way they dress
there, you have no scriptural right to tell them to cover their
breasts.  If it is stumbling you, you need to leave that place
because obviously you are not spiritually strong enough to
keep you mind straight and your spirit right.  I am so
Westernized that I could not handle sitting next to a Mexican
Indian as she breast fed her baby on the bus, or the Mexican sister
who breast fed her baby in church.  I had to move out of view.
So should you if you can't handle it when women dress so.
If that means not going to beach where women are exposing
their breasts and rumps, and/or where men barely cover their
genitals, then that means not going to the beach except on very
cold and windy days.

Since it is not, in and of itself, a sin (in thought or deed) to just
touch/caress/handle/ fondle/ work/ use/lick/suck the ears, ear
lobes, nose, lips, tongue, chin, throat, neck, shoulders, arms,
hands, back, belly, legs and/or feet  (with no sinful thought of, or
sinful deed involving,  her breasts, vulva or buttocks)----------
of a woman who is not your Biblically proper wife, ----------
then neither these acts or pictures/images of these acts constitute
pornography, if the people involved are not sex-sinners (whores
and whoremongers).  If it is foolish, if it is offensive to any who
know of it, if it pulls you into sin rather than building you up in
the Lord and keeping you straight in the Lord, and if you have
doubts about such activities, then it is wrong for you to do such
activities.  So it is not a "sin" to be a masseuse, give massages,
imagine such activities or pose for such pictures etc., as long as
the scriptures are obeyed and the principles of Romans 14 are
observed.

Pornography often involves "masturbation" or self-stimulation.
There is no scripture that says the act of stimulating yourself to
orgasm is a sin.  There are many scriptures that say that if you
are thinking sin, thinking of sin, imagining sin etc. while self-
stimulating, then you are sinning.  A spouse absent from
his/her mate who self-stimulates to orgasm thinking of
him/her, is simply obeying the Provebs 5 command to be in
orgasmic ecstasy with your mate.

If a male is self-stimulating, thinking of just
touching/caressing/handling/ fondling/ working/
using/licking/sucking the ears, ear lobes, nose, lips, tongue,
chin, throat, neck, shoulders, arms, hands, back, belly, legs
and/or feet  (with no sinful thought of, or sinful deed involving,
her breasts, vulva or buttocks)----------
of a single woman who is not his Biblically proper wife, ----------
then there is no scripture that I am aware of that condemns it, if
the woman involved is not a sex-sinner (whores described
above).  Because of 1 Thess. 4 and the need to stay clear of sin, I
would never encourage a male to think of just
touching/caressing/handling/ fondling/ working/
using/licking/sucking the ears, ear lobes, nose, lips, tongue,
chin, throat, neck, shoulders, arms, hands, back, belly, legs
and/or feet  (with no sinful thought of, or sinful deed involving,
her breasts, vulva or buttocks)----------
of another man's woman. Too many dangers!!!!!

If a female is self-stimulating, thinking of just
touching/caressing/handling/ fondling/ working/
using/licking/sucking the ears, ear lobes, nose, lips, tongue,
chin, throat, neck, shoulders, arms, hands, back, belly, legs
and/or feet  (with no sinful thought of, or sinful deed involving,
her breasts, vulva or buttocks)----------
of a man who is not her Biblically proper husband, ----------
then there is no scripture that I am aware of that condemns it, if
the man involved is not a sex-sinner (whores/fornicators described
above).   Because of 1 Thess. 4 and the need to stay clear of sin, I would
never encourage a wife to think of just touching/caressing/handling/
fondling/ working/ using/licking/sucking the ears, ear lobes, nose,
lips, tongue, chin, throat, neck, shoulders, arms, hands, back, belly,
legs and/or feet  (with no sinful thought of, or sinful deed involving,
her breasts, vulva or buttocks)---------- of a man other than her own
man. Too many dangers!!!!!

How does your behavior match God's standard in these matters?
What kinds of people, images, magazines, videos, web sites etc.
are you allowing into your life, remembering that God's
standard in Philip. 4:8.  Here is a check off list for you----------------








***IS IT PORNOGRAPHY? AN INVENTORY LIST
       1. IF YOU KNOW THAT THEY ARE BEING SEXUALLY
INTIMATE AND THEY ARE NOT MARRIED TO EACH
OTHER, THEN GET RID OF IT (1 THESS 5:21). To enjoy or
delight in their fornication is to  applaud, approve of or consent
to those who do the sinful actions, making you worthy of death.
(Rom. 1:32)

       2. Is the genital and/or buttocks/rump crack exposed???  Ezek.
ch. 16 and ch. 23 Isa. 20 with Phil. 4:8 and  �I will set no vile thing
before my eyes� psa,101:3==YOU DON�T BUY/GET IT or set it
before your eyes   DON�T LOOK AT ANY PICTURES OF THoSE
WHO DO SUCH SINS, NO PICTURES OF PEOPLE WITH
EXPOSED GENITALS, OF EXTRAMARITAL SEX, OF
LESBIANISM!     Psalm 101:3,4; Phil. 4:8

       3. DON�T GO TO/ASSOCIATE/FELLOWSHIP WITH
IMMORAL PEOPLE who want to have sexual intimacy with
each other or you outside of marriage. DON�T BE ALONE WITH
IMMORAL PEOPLE who want to have sexual intimacy with you
outside of marriage.    2 Cor. 6:14-7:1; 1 Cor. 5:9-11; Proverbs
chapters 5,6 & 7; ROM. 13:14

       4. GET RID OF ANY PICTURES, magazines, videos,
addresses, phone #�s OR ETC. THAT TEMPT YOU TO DO SIN,
OR CAUSE YOU TO SIN. Rom. 13:14; 2 Timothy 2:19-22

       5. KEEP YOURSELF FROM THEIR SINFUL ACTIONS
AND HAVE NO PLEASURE IN THOSE WHO DO SUCH
SINFUL ACTIONS, and so escape death. Do not applaud,
approve of or consent to thOSE who do sinful actions.  (Rom.
1:32;Psa. 15:4)

       6. GET RID OF ANYTHING THAT IS CLEARLY AND
PLAINLY SINFUL, FORBIDDEN by God, spiritually STUMBLING
YOU, morallyOFFENDING YOU, GRIEVING your conscience.  2
Cor. 7; Rom. 13:14; 2 Timothy 2:19-22

       7. Are they naked in public, IN magazines, in photos for
the public? It is not enough if the nude model is careful not to
let her vagina, labia, and buttocks/rump crack be seen.  God didn�t
have nude Eve just be careful to keep her legs and buns closed
and her hand over her vulva.  God clothed her, covering her
vulva and buttocks/rump crack with something in addition to her
pubic and anal hair and hand.  It goes to the �naked and bare�
shame of Ezek 16 and 23 where public nudity, bareness, exposure
of vaginal labia and buttocks/rump---are a shame and a disgrace,
a punishable offense in the eyes of God. Definitely not a Phil. 4:8
for a believer. Gen. 3 God wants our nakedness (genitalia)
clothed in public and in public photos. Gen.3;Matt. 25:36; Rev.
3:17

       8. �They exchanged the truth of God for a lie... Because of
this, God gave them over to shameful lusts...Although they
know God�s righteous decree that those who do such things
deserve death, they not only continue to do these very things but
also approve** of those who practice them.� Romans 1
**=applaud, have pleasure in, agree with.
You don�t want to be found approving, applauding, pleasuring
in or agreeing with the vile doers or their vile deeds unless you
want to share their death. (Psa. 15:4; 101:3,4)

A CHECK OFF LIST

__ 1. Do the women involved open their feet/legs/thighs to
show their genitals publicly? One who does this is �lewd�,
�weak of heart�, and does the �work of a whore�, a vile person
to be condemned [psa. 15:4].EZ 16 & 23. GET RID OF IT!    Rom.
13:14; 2 Timothy 2:19-22

___ 2. Do they scorn pay/reward for sex sin acts, and/or even
pay &/or reward their lovers for their sex? Then they are
whores. Ez 16   DON�T GO TO,watch or enjoy THEM. Romans
1:32

___ 3. Do they accept salary/pay/reward for acts of sexual sin?
Pornography stars, models, people are harlots and vile. Ez 16
DON�T GO TO,watch,or enjoy THEM! Psalm 15:4

___ 4. Are they having sex with someone else besides their
mate? This is adultery/fornication and worthy of death/ Hell
(Rom. 1:32). EZ 16  DON�T GO TO, watch or enjoy THEM!

___ 5. Do they have sex with others than their own mates
insatiably? They are  vile and whores worthy of death (Rom 1:32;
1 Cor. 6). Ez 16 DON�T GO TO, watch or enjoy THEM!  Psalm
101:3,4

___ 6. Are they involved in breast pressing and breast/ labia
handling by others than their own mates?  Proverbs 5, Ezekiel 16
& 23.   Whores and the vile do this and are worthy of death
(Rom 1:32). It is fornication and those who keep on doing it shall
not inherit the kingdom of God (1 Cor. 6).      KEEP YOURSELF
FROM THEIR SINFUL ACTIONS AND HAVE NO PLEASURE
IN them or THEIR SINFUL ACTIONS.

___7. Do you want to do sinful things in your mind with the
people in the pictures? You are snared by the Evil and are
worthy of death.  Ezek. 23:14-16; Matt. 5:28 KEEP YOURSELF FROM
them and THOSE PICTURES.

___ 8. Do they make public (in magazines, adds, movies, on the
street) their whorish behavior? Ez. 23:16-18

___9. Do they make public their genitals/labia? EZ. 23:16-18
Don�t enjoy them or their immodesty even in the pictures
where their genitals are covered because covered or uncovered
they are still them and they are to be avoided and scornfully
despised but prayed for (1 Tim 2:1; Psalm 15:4; 2 Cor. 6:14-7:1).

___10. Are they naked in public, in photos for the public? Gen. 3
God wants our genitals clothed in public and in public
photos.Gen.3      Matt. 25:36; Rev. 3:17  COVER THEIR
NAKEDNESS? That is NOT ENOUGH BECAUSE THEY ARE
STILL THOSE WHO DO SUCH THINGS AND YOU MUST NOT
TAKE PLEASURE IN THEM. Don�t enjoy them or their
immodest EVEN IF THEIR GENITALS are covered.  Rom.1:32

___11. Did God tell them to be naked in public? Apparently a
male prophet can be naked publicly if God tells you to do
so.Isaiah 20

___12a. Do they uncover their buts/bottoms so they are naked
publicly?  It is a shame before God. Isa. 20:2-4
___12b. Does they show off, pridefully display their genitals?
PHILIPPIANS 3:19 with Ezek. 16 and 23.  Don�t enjoy them, for
they are to be rebuked and scornfully despised, but prayed for.

___13. Does she dress or undress in such a place/way to
stumble, tempt, offend someone? Stay away from her and keep
her stuff away from you. Prov. 5 & 6 & 7; Rom. 14 + 1 Tim. 2:9,10

___14. Do you obey God by not setting before your eyes
       anything that is, according to God, worthless or evil or
wicked or ungodly--- like pictures of vile people showing their
genitals &/or immorality? Do you, even if they are clothed
decently and presentably, whether or not you/they have covered
their genitals?         Psa. 101:3;     Phil. 4:8

___15. Do you understand that a person is body, soul and spirit
(1 Thes. 5:23)?  Do you understand that this    means that
you are to scornfully despise the body, soul and spirit of the vile/
wicked/ evil person who         does sexual sin? (Psalm 15:4; 101:3,4)

___16. Do you understand that even if you can�t see their faces,
even if you don�t know WHO they are, that God wants you to
scornfully despise their bodies, whatever part of them you can
see, while you pray for them? 1 Tim 2:1  Psalm 15:4

___17..DO YOU SET NO WICKED THING BEFORE YOUR EYES
AS YOU WOULD HAVE TO IN ORDER TO CENSOR IT? No? I
have a woman do it? Then I have caused her to set a wicked
thing before her eyes and she could get hooked on it.  I do it in
the dark without my glasses so I can�t really see it? THE
QUESTION IS NOT �CAN YOU SEE THEM IN THEIR SIN?�
BUT DO YOU SET THE WICKED PEOPLE DOING THEIR
THING BEFORE YOUR EYES?  YES YOU DO SET THE WICKED
PEOPLE DOING THEIR WICED SIN BEFORE  YOUR EYES
WHEN YOU CENSOR/EDIT THEIR PICTURES.
SO YOU MUST NOT SET PORNOGRAPHIC PICTURES BEFORE
YOUR EYES EVEN IF YOU CAN�T SEE CLEARLY BECAUSE OF
NO GLASSES OR BECAUSE OF DARKNESS.

___18. DO YOU HATE THE PORNOGRAPHIC WORK OF
THOSE WHO SHOW GENITALS AND PRACTICE
FORNICATION FOR PAY AND FILMING?  �I cover their
genitals, faces and their personhood.� NO GOOD BECAUSE
YOU HAVE TO SET WICKEDNESS BEFORE  YOUR FACE IN
ORDER TO DO THAT.

___19. DO YOU DESPISE THE REPROBATE WHO BARES
GENITALS AND FORNICATES? �I cover their genitals, faces
and their personhood.�  NO GOOD BECAUSE EVEN IF YOU
COVER THEIR GENITALS THEY ARE STILL THE
REPROBATES WHO BARED THEIR GENITALS AND/OR
FORNICATED.

___20. Does the questionable behavior involve hand to genital
behavior?    Apparently you should have hand to genital
relations only with your own mate.
Deut. 25:11 11 KJV When men strive together one with another,
and the wife of the one draweth near for to deliver her husband
out of the hand of him that smiteth him, and putteth forth her
hand, and taketh him by the secrets:12 Then thou shalt cut off
her hand, thine eye shall not pity [her].
DBY 11 When men fight together one with another, and the
wife of the one come near to rescue her husband out of the hand
of him that smiteth him, and stretch out her hand, and seize
him by his secret parts,12 thou shalt cut off her hand; thine eye
shall not spare.
MKJV 11 When men strive together with one another, and the
wife of the one draws near to deliver her husband out of the
hand of him who strikes him, and puts forth her hand and takes
him by the secret parts, 12 then you shall cut off her hand. Your
eye shall not pity.
YLT 11 `When men strive together, one with another, and the
wife of the one hath drawn near to deliver her husband out of
the hand of his smiter, and hath put forth her hand, and laid
hold on his secrets,12 then thou hast cut off her hand, thine eye
doth not spare.

___21. Are the people doing things that are obviously sinful and
condemned by God (e.g. lesbianism, homosexuality,bestiality,
female with more than one male, sodomy, violence etc.) 1
THESS 5:21            GET RID OF THE STUFF Rom 13:14

___22. Are the people involved doing a sinful act (two
unmarried being intimate, lesbianism) ? GET RID OF IT

___23. Do you agree with God honoring those who fear Him
and scornfully despising those vile and depraved        reprobates
who sin by showing their genitals or fornication in public,
magazines &/or videos; whether or not they are clothed decently
and presentably, whether or not you/they have   covered their
genitals?       Psalm 15:4

___24. Do you agree with God honoring those who fear Him
and hating the deeds/work of the fallen &/or faithless who sin
by showing their genitals &/or fornication in public, magazines
&/or videos? Do you, even if they are clothed decently and
presentably, whether or not you/they have covered their
genitals?       Psalm101:3

____25. Are their vaginas/labias exposed through/in their sex
sin? EZ 16:35,36        You shouldn�t even set it before your eyes
and do not delight* in (esteem, admire, applaud, approve of,
consent to, agree with, sympathize with, have a favorable
opinion of, have fellowship with, or accept as satisfactory) the
people who do sex sin and/or bare their genitals? ROM. 1:32
Even if you cover their genitals and their faces, they are still
immoral women who open their legs to show their genitals and
you must not delight* in (esteem, admire, applaud, approve of,
consent         to, agree with, sympathize with, have a favorable
opinion of, have fellowship with, or accept as satisfactory) the
people who do sex sin and/or bare their genitals? ROM. 1:32

___26. Do you agree with God honoring those who fear Him
and scornfully despising those vile and depraved        reprobates
who sin by showing their genitals or fornication in public,
magazines &/or videos? Psalm    15:4
DO YOU CONTEMN THE VILE AND DEPRAVED PERSON
WHO BARES GENITALS AND FORNICATES? [psa. 15:4] �I
cover their genitals, faces and personhood.�  EVEN IF YOU
COVER THEIR GENITALS ETC THEY ARE STILL THOSE WHO
DO WICKEDLY.

___27. In contrast to God, do you approve of them (clothed or
not) who sin by shewing their genitals &/or     fornication in
public, magazines, &/or videos? Do you say they are okay? Do
you accept them for your eyes   and soul?  Got a
problem![Rom. 1:32,     ANT&NIV]
       ___a. Do you have/express a favorable opinion of
               them?   Got a problem!
       ___b. Do you accept them as okay/satisfactory?
       ___c. Do you accept them, giving them your esteem and
               admiration?     Got a problem!

___28. In contrast to God, do you applaud those (clothed or not)
who show their genitals &/or fornication in     public,
magazines &/or videos?  Do you express  your approval and
delight in them [by arousal, erection,  orgasm, praise,
encouragement, celebration]? Got a problem![Rom.1:32, ANT]

___29. Do they please you who displease God by showing their
genitals &/or fornication in public,      magazines &/or videos?
Do you like them (clothed or not)? Do they give you pleasure?
Do they make you feel good sexually? Do you take &/or get
pleasure in &/or from   them? [Rom. 1:32, Wuest]

___30. Do you consent to them (clothed or not), making an
emotional/ personal commitment/stand for/with them by
agreeing/yielding/acquiescing to them so that they have access
to your soul/eyes/mind by mags, videos or       etc.? [Rom
1:32, Berk.Int. + ASV + AG & TH.

___31.Do you * delight* in (esteem, admire, applaud, approve
of, consent to, agree with, sympathize with, have a favorable
opinion of, have fellowship with, or accept as satisfactory) the
people who do sex sin and/or bare their genitals? ROM. 1:32 No,
I cover their faces so so they are no longer personalities, but just
bodies that can�t be identified as a person.
       *Amp.B: ...but approve & applaud others who practice
               them.
       *NIV: ...but also approve of those who practice them(ag).
       approve:have or express a favorable opinion of them
       accept them as satisfactory, give them sanction to be
               esteemed or admired
       *Peshita:.but also associate with those who practice them
       *ASV:..but also consent with them that practise them.
       *AGTH:are pleased at the same time with those that do
               them
               are consenting to those that do them (ag)
               are agreeing with those that do them (ag)
               are applauding those that do them
               are sympathizing with those who do them (ag)

*IF YOU KNOW/KNEW SHE BARES/D HER GENITALS
PUBLICLY,THEN YOU MUST NOT
       1.approve of HER OR HER BODY OR desire to do sin
               with her
       2.express a     favorable opinion of HER OR HER BODY
,       3. accept HER OR HER BODY  as satisfactory,
       4. give sanction to HER OR HER BODY ,
       5. esteem HER OR HER BODY or    admire HER OR HER
               BODY....

If you do not approve of what they do, say or practice it would
appear that you are not approving them. NOT NECESSARILY
SO.  YOU CAN STILL ADMIRE SOMEONE AND DESPISE
WHAT THEY DO.  If you have to cover them up before you can
approve of them, then you don�t approve of them showing their
nakedness.  If you      withhold your approval until they are
appropriately covered,  then you don�t appprove of them
uncovering and showing themselves. BUT THE POINT IS,
WHETHER THEY ARE COVERED OR NOT, ARE THEY PEOPLE
WHO DO SUCH SIN?  IF THEY ARE SUCH PEOPLE WHO DO
SUCH SIN, THEN YOU MUST NOt approve of them
[INCLUDING THEIR BODIES,  applaud them OR THEIR
BODIES, have or express a favorable opinion of them OR THEIR
BODIES, accept them OR THEIR BODIES as satisfactory, give
sanction to them OR THEIR BODIES, esteem them or THEIR
BODIES, OR admire them OR THEIR BODIES.  EVEN IF YOU
COVER THEIR FACES/GENITALS IT IS STILL THEM WHO
YOU MUST NOT ACCEPT, ESTEEM, ADMIRE OR ENJOY..
DOES THAT MEAN ESTEEMING OR ADMIRING THEIR
BEAUTY? Remember the Word about lusting after their beauty?
�If I cover their faces it is no longer their beauty, but just a
beautiful body belonging to who knows who?�  YOU KNEW
THAT IT WAS A WOMAN WHO WAS DOING SIN AND
EVEN AFTER YOU COVER HER FACE AND GENITALS YOU
STILL KNOW THAT IT WAS A WOMAN DOING SIN BY
SHOWING HER GENITALS/SIN.

*IF YOU KNOW/KNEW SHE IS/WAS A
FORNICATOR/ADULTERESS /HARLOT,
*IF YOU KNOW/KNEW SHE BARES/D HER GENITALS
PUBLICLY,
THEN YOU MUST NOT
       1.approve of HER OR HER BODY OR desire to do sin
with her
       2.express a     favorable opinion of HER OR HER BODY
,       3. accept HER OR HER BODY  as satisfactory,
       4. give sanction to HER OR HER BODY ,
       5. esteem HER OR HER BODY or    admire HER OR HER
BODY....
WHETHER OR NOT SHE IS BARE OR SEX SINNING IN THE
PICTURE AT HAND.
IF YOU KNOW SHE DOES THOSE KINDS OF THINGS, THEN
YOU HAVE NO BUSINESS ENJOYING, DELIGHTING IN,
ESTEEMING OR ADMIRING HER OR desiring to do sinful
things with HER BEAUTY, ???????BECAUSE HER BEAUTY IS
A PART OF HER JUST LIKE HER FACE IS HER OR
FINGERPRINTS ARE HER??????????
GET RID OF HER PICTURES SO YOU WONT BE TEMPTED TO
ENJOY, DELIGHT IN, ESTEEM OR ADMIRE HER IN HER
BEAUTY WHICH SHE USES TO SIN AND GET YOU INTO SIN.
Psalm 101:3  I will set no wicked/worthless thing before mine
eyes: I hate the work of them that turn aside; it shall not cleave
to me. (Phil. 4:8)

IT�S NOT A QUESTION OF WHAT SHE IS DOING AT THE
MOMENT.
IT�S A QUESTION OF WHAT KIND OF WOMAN IS SHE AND
WHAT KIND OF THINGS DOES SHE DO, WHETHER OR NOT
SHE IS DOING IT NOW OR IN THE PICTURE.

If you don�t approve of the showing their genitals , then you are
not approving of WHAT THEY ARE DOING.  YOU CAN STILL
ADMIRE SOMEONE AND DESPISE WHAT THEY DO.  GOD
MAKE IT PLAIN IT IS SINFUL ERROR TO ADMIRE,ESTEEM
APPROVE OF PEOPLE WHO DO SIN.  YOU CAN PRAY FOR
THEM AND COMPASSIONATELY CHERISH THEM
WITHOUT ESTEEMING ADMIRING, ENJOYING THEM.  YOU
CAN ADMIRE, ESTEEM AND ENJOY THE GOOD THING
SINNERS DO, BUT YOU CANNOT ADMIRE, ESTEEM AND
ENJOY THE SINNING SINNER.
***Prov. 5:8  Remove thy way far from her, and come not
       nigh the door of her house:
***Prov. 5:20  And why shouldest thou, my son, be
       enraptured with an immoral woman, and embrace the
       bosom of a seductress?
***Prov. 6:25  Lust not after her beauty in thy heart,
       neither let her take thee with her eyelids;Matt. 5:32
***Prov. 6:32  Whoso committeth adultery with a woman is
       void of understanding: he that doeth it destroyeth
       his own soul.

���ROM. 1:32  who knowing the righteous judgment of God,
that they who do such things are worthy of death, not only
practice them, but have fellow delight in those who do [them].
� ROM. 1:32 WHO  KNOWING  THE JUDGMENT OF GOD ,
THAT THEY WHICH COMMIT  SUCH THINGS  ARE
WORTHY  OF DEATH , NOT  ONLY  DO <4160> THE SAME ----

"do" =STRONGS:<4160> poieo {poy-eh'-o}
                [IF IT IS IN :"[*.......*]", THEN IT IS TYLER'S]
1a) produce [*such sins*] , construct [*such sinful pictures*] ,form
[*such sinful objects*], fashion [*such sin*]
1b) . [are] the authors of [*such sin*], [are] the cause  [of] [*such
sin*];
1c). make ready [*such sin*],... prepare[*such sin*]
1i). make one  [*do such sin*]..
.1i1) cause one to... [*do such sin*]..
2b)  ... do ...[*such sin*].. ... unto one,
1e)... acquire [* such sin*]..,... provide ..[*such sin*]  for one's self,
1j) .[are] the authors of [*such sin*] ...(... cause, bring about [*such
sin*] )
2a1)  ... carry out [*such sin*] , ... execute  [*such sin*] ..
 2d) . celebrate [*such sin*] , keep [*such sin*] ..
 2d1) ... make ready [*such sin*] . ,
2e) .. perform: to a promise [*such sin*] ...[as under contract] ,

� BUT  HAVE PLEASURE IN  <4909> -------------

STRONG'S <4909>  suneudokeo {soon-yoo-dok-eh'-o}
1) to be pleased together with, to approve together (with others)
2) *to be pleased at the same time with, consent, agree to
  2a) to applaud*   In Ronese: to like, permit, agree to, to
praise/celebrate and encourage
<4909> Tense - Present;  Voice - Active;  Mood  - Indicative
    *=Arndt & Gingrich and Thayer all agree with this def.
have pleasure in
are pleased together with
approve together with
are pleased at the same time with
consent/agree with
applaud [praise/celebrate/encourage]


� THOSE WHO DO [THEM].

them who exercise them
them who practise them
them who are busy with them
them who carry them on
them who undertake them
them who do them
them who accomplish them
themwho perform them
them who commit them
them who perpetrate them
them who manage them publicly
them who transact them publicly
them who exact revenue from them
them who act them

"Abstain from every form of evil" 1 Thes. 5:21
"Nevertheless the solid foundation of God stands, having this seal:
'TheLord knows those who are His,' and, 'Everyone who names the
name of Christ should depart from iniquity.'   . . . in a great house
there are not only vessels of gold and silver, but also of wood and clay,
some for honor and some for dishonor.  Therefore if anyone cleanses
himself from the latter, he will be a vessel for honor, set apart and
useful for the Master, prepared for every good work.  Flee also
youthful desires [for that which is forbidden by God]; but pursue
righteousness, faith, love, peace with those who call on the Lord out
of a pure heart." 2Tim.2:19-22





���CONCUBINES IN THE BIBLE

Are concubinage amd polygyny  dead and old issues?  In January of '96
the New York Times ran an article about more than 200,000
polygamists living in and around Paris, France, alone. An e-mail
correspondent from Paris wrote to me telling me that reportedly a
very recent Prime Minister of France was a practicing polygynist, that
both his wife and concubine participated in his public state funeral.
Polygamy and concubinage, in one form or another, are being
practiced on every continent today.

St. Augustine of Hippo, 4th century Christian Patriarch, stated the
following of the Western Christian community of his century:
       "But here there is no ground for a criminal accusation: for a
plurality of wives was no crime when it was the custom; and it is a
crime now, because it is no longer the custom......The only reason of its
being a crime now to do this, is        because custom and the laws forbid
it.>1. . . . That the holy fathers of olden times . . . to whom God gave
His testimony that 'they pleased Him'. . . it was permitted to . . . them
to have a pluraltiy of wives. . .>2 . . . the honorable name    of
saint is given not without reason to men who had several wives. . .
nor did the number of their wives make the patriarchs licentious.>3
[>1 A Select Library, vol. iv; p. 289;   >2  A Select Library, Vol. V; p. 267;
       >3 A Select Library, Vol. iv; p. 290]

I understand  Rev. Gerhard Jasper to make the following points: (1) In
Old Testament times a Jewish polygynist's marriage was fully
recognized as marriage, protected by the Law and the elders;  (2) the
Jewish polygynist's faith in or faithfulness to God was not questioned
because of his polygyny; (3) the polygyny of the Jewish polygynist did
not keep him from being admitted to the congregation with full
membership.>44.  Moses did not forbid polygamy  but apparently it
was unusual among average people .>45.

" . . . Yet polygyny  is adopted from the time of Lamech (Gn. 4:19), and
is not forbidden in Scripture . . . Polygamy continues to the present day
among Jews in Moslem, Hindu, Buddhist, Asian, Oriental, and African
countries." >25

�Concubine. A secondary wife acquired by purchase or as a war
captive, and allowed in polygamous society such as existed in the
Middle east in biblical times. . . . Concubines were protected under
Mosaic law (Exod. 21:7-11; Dt. 21:10-14), though they were
distinguished from wives (Jdg. 8:31) and were more easily divorced
(Gen.21:10-14)�>26

" . . . Concubinage was a legally sanctioned and socially acceptable
practice in ancient cultures, including that of the Hebrews; concubines,
however, were denied the protection to which a legal wife was
entitled.  . .�>27.

" . . .  Herod had nine wives at once. . . Its possibility is implied by the
technical continuance of the Levirate law," [Deut. 25:5-10] "and is
proved by the early interpretation of 1 Ti 3, whether correct or not.
Justin reproaches the Jews of his day" [A.D.] " with having 'four or
even five wives,' and marrying 'as they wish, or as many as they
wish.'  . . .  Polygamy was not definitely forbidden among the Jews till
the time of R. Gershom (c. A.D. 1000), and then at first only for France
and Germany.  In Spain, Italy, and the East it persisted for some time
longer, as it does still among the Jews in Mohammedan
countries.">28
[Footnotes:  >44.  Trobisch, MY WIFE MADE ME. . . P.18; (AFRICAN
THEOLOGICAL JOURNAL, Rev. Gerhard Jasper of Lutheran
Theological College in Makumira, Tanzania; Februrary 1969, p. 41).
>45.  Please see Deut. 21:15,16 and THE INTERNATIONAL BIBLE
COMMENTARY; p. 407.   >25   IVCF, Editor J.D.Douglas;  1962,W. B.
Eerdmans Publishing, p.787.      >26  IVCF, Editor J.D.Douglas;
1962,W. B. Eerdmans Publishing. >27 1986, Funk & Wagnalls
NEW ENCYCLOPEDIA.       >28.  HASTINGS DICTIONARY OF
THE BIBLE;  p.583ff.]]

Reflecting the reality of how Israel and Judah divided after Solomon
died, Jesus (as Jehovah) presents Himself as the husband of two wives
in the following:
MKJV EZEKIEL 23: 1 � The word of the LORD came again to me, 2
Son of man, there were two women, the daughters of one mother.  3
And they fornicated in Egypt; they whored in their youth, their breasts
were handled, and there their Oholibah, her sister. And they became
Mine, . . . ."

God never presents Himself as sin or sinner to us except for when holy
Christ became sin for us on the cross.  In Ezek. 23, the sinners were His
wives and He was righteous as the husband of two wives.  It was only
two wives in accordance with His own Law that decreed that the ruler
must not multiply wives to himself. Polygyny , even God�s polygyny , is
NEVER labeled or declared to be sin or sinful in the Bible.

MKJV GEN. 4: 19 � And Lamech took two wives to himself. The name
of the first one [was] Adah, and the name of the other [was] Zillah;
MKJV GEN. 16: 2 And Sarai said to Abram, Behold now, the LORD
has kept me from bearing. I pray you, go in to my slave woman. It may
be that I may be built by her. And Abram listened to the voice of Sarai.
3 And Sarai, Abram's wife, took Hagar her slave woman, the
Egyptian, and gave her to her husband
Abram to be his wife.

God intervened and sent Hagar back into the marital situation with
Abram and Sarai>41  When God next spoke to Abraham>42  there
was no condemnation of his polygyny , but instead God blessed him
with an even greater blessing than before. In response to the blessing
he takes his son by Hagar and  circumcised  him>43 .  "in all things the
Lord had blessed Abraham" (Gen. 24:1).
[Footnotes:>41  (Gen 16:9-16.);    >42  (Gen. 17:1--);    >43  (Gen. 17:23-
25);
       Polygyny and bigamy were recognized features of the family
life.  From the Oriental point of view there was nothing immoral in
the practice of polygamy. . . . At all events, polygyny was an
established and recognized institution form the earliest times">8
HASTINGS DICTIONARY OF THE
BIBLE;  p.259.

God blessed Sarah with fertility in  polygyny>44  and God blessed
Hagar and Ishmael even though she was cast out of Sarah's house at
Sarah's confirmed request because of the question of an heir, not
polygyny>45 .   Abraham had another concubine after Hagar, named
Keturah>46  by whom Abraham had six children without any
condemnation or denunciation by God.
[Footnotes:>44    (Gen 21:1-7); >45   (Gen. 21); >46   (1 Chron.1:32) ]

Culturally it is interesting that Nahor, Abraham's brother, also was a
polygamist having a concubine>47. Abraham  had at least another
concubine besides Keturah under God's blessing>48   although he
diligently protected the heir status of Isaac.  Hezron�s Caleb had two
concubines>49.
[Footnotes:>47 (Gen. 22:20-24);   >48  (Gen. 25:1-6);   >48  (Gen. 25:1-
6)]
       Eerdmans' Douglas' New Bible Dictionary: �Concubine. A
secondary wife  . . . . allowed in polygamous society such as existed in
the Middle east in biblical times....Handmaidens, given as a marriage
gift, were often concubines
(Gen. 29:24,29). Concubines were protected under Mosaic law (Exod.
21:7-11; Dt. 21:10-14), though they were distinguished from wives
(Jdg. 8:31) and were more easily divorced (Gen.21:10-14)."
[Footnote: >10 1962, IVCF, Editor J.D.Douglas; W. B. Eerdmans
Publishing]

FUNK & WAGNALLS NEW ENCYCLOPEDIA: CONCUBINAGE,
�refers to the cohabitation of a man and a woman without sanction of
legal marriage.  Specifically, concubinage is a form of polygyny  in
which the primary matrimonial relationship is supplemented by one or
more secondary sexual relationships. Concubinage was a legally
sanctioned and socially acceptable practice in ancient cultures,
including that of the Hebrews; concubines, however, were denied the
protection to which a legal wife was entitled. . . . . the concubine's
status was inferior to that of  a legal wife.  Her children had certain
rights, including support by the father and legitimacy in the event of
the marriage of the parents� [>11 1986, Funk & Wagnalls]

HASTINGS DICTIONARY OF THE BIBLE: �The relative positions of
wives and concubines were determined mainly by the husband's
favour.  The children of the wife claimed the greater part, or the
whole, of the inheritance; otherwise there does not seem to have been
any inferiority in the position of the concubine as compared with that
of the wife, nor was any idea of  illegitimacy, in our sense of the word,
connected with her children. . . . >12
[Footnote: >12. HASTINGS DICTIONARY OF THE BIBLE;  p.259.]

� The difference between a wife and a concubine depended on the
wife's higher position and birth, usually backed by relatives ready to
defend her.� >13
[Footnote: >13. 1989, HASTINGS DICTIONARY OF THE BIBLE;
p.585.]

>>>>THE BIBLICAL RECORD CONTINUES
       Esau's  polygyny >55 was not condemned but his unequal yoke
was the point of grief to his mother.   Esau�s son had a concubine>56 .
[Footnotes:>55     (Gen. 26:34,35; 28:9); >56    (Gen. 36:12); ]

Jacob marries Rachel and Leah>58 , and goes on to have children by
his concubines as well>59.    Sure, treachery was involved in the
Rachel and Leah marriage, but it appears that the treachery stands
alone as the evil since at the first mention of the polygyny  option,>60
Jacob has no moral objection and nowhere does God denounce his
marriage to the two women. Yes Lev. 18:18  shows that much later in
the time of Moses, God forbade  two sisters being
wives to one husband at one time and makes rivalry the issue.

God  deliberately involved Himself in the polygyny  of Jacob by
blessing Leah with fertility>61.  God repeated himself by blessing the
mother of Samuel with fertility without denouncing her polygyny>62 .
God intervened and granted fertility to Rachel in her polygyny>63  .
God not only blesses Jacob with fertility but also with miraculous
prosperity in his polygyny> 64 . God not only blessed Jacob in his
polygyny  but also delivered him from evil and harm as a
polygynist>65
[Footnotes:>58   in Gen 29 & 30;  >59    (Gen. 35:22; 37:2);. >60   (Gn.
29:27,29).    >61  (Gn. 29:31,32; 30:17);  >62   (l Sam 1:1-6); >63  (Gn.
30:22);  >64  (Gn. 30:41-31:10); >65  (Gn. 31:24, 29,42)]

Jacob�s son Ashur had two wives >68, and his son, Manasseh, had a
concubine>69.  Benjamin�s Shaharaim was also a polygamist>70.
[Footnotes:>68  (1Chron. 4:5); >69  (1 Chron 7:14);  >70  (1 Chron.8:8)]

The next occurrence is controversial but interesting.  Before the Law
and in accordance with the principles of Genesis, Moses interracially
marries Zipporah a Midianite.  She seems to do a Michal>71  and
apparently suffers the same fate because next we see Moses
interracially marry, after the giving of the law, an Ethiopian
Cushite>72  in polygyny . Under God's Law Moses gave
instructions about polygyny>73  affording it the full legal status of
monogamy with no stigma or  denunciation.
[Footnotes:>71   (l Sam 6) in Ex. 4:23-26; >72    (Num 12:1-10);  >73    in
Ex. 21:10,11]

MKJV EXODUS 21: 7 �And if a man sells his daughter to be a
maidservant, she shall not go out as the menservants do.  8 If she does
not please her master, who has betrothed her to himself, then he shall
let her be redeemed. He shall have no power to sell her to a strange
nation, since he has dealt deceitfully with her.  9 And if he has
betrothed her to his son, he shall deal with her as with daughters.  10
If he takes himself another [wife], her food, her clothing, and her duty
of marriage shall not be lessened. 11 And if he does not do these
three to her, then she shall go out free without money.�

MKJV LEVITICUS 19:20 �And whoever lies with a woman with
semen, and she is a slave-girl, betrothed to a husband and not at all
redeemed, nor freedom given her, there shall be an inquest. They shall
not be put to death, because she was not free.�

MKJV DEUT. 22: 23 �If a girl [who is] a virgin is engaged to a
husband, and a man finds her in the city and lies with her,  24 then you
shall bring them both out to the gate of that city, and you shall stone
them with stones that they die; the girl because she did not cry out in
the city, and the man because he has humbled his neighbor's wife. So
you shall put away evil from among you. 25 But if a man finds an
engaged girl in the field, and the man forces her and lies
with her, then only the man that lay with her shall die.  26 But you
shall do nothing to the girl. No sin [worthy] of death [is] in the girl; for
as when a man rises against his neighbor and slays him, even so is this
matter. 27 For he found her in the field, the engaged girl cried out, but
[there was] none to save her.�

God's Law forbade a king from "multiplying" wives>.75 to himself
without making such a command to  we nonkings.  It appears from
later scripture about Godly and God blessed kings of Israel that God
makes a distinction between MULTIPLYING wives & horses to
yourself and adding wives & horses to yourself.   None of us object to
King David having more
than one horse but many object to King David having more than one
wife, yet it is the same command "he shall not multilply horses . . .
wives to himself." By 2 Samuel 5-12  God had �given� him seven
wives plus a number of concubines.  We see His implied blessing on
David�s polygyny .  This implied blessing of his polygyny  would have
to mean that David, with concubines  and seven wives, had not yet
violated the prohibition against a king multiplying wives and horses
to himself.
[Footnotes:>75  De 17:15 �You  shall only set him king over you whom
Jehovah your God will choose: from among your brethren shall  you
set a king over you;  . . . 16 Only he shall not multiply horses to himself,
. . 17 Neither shall he multiply wives to himself, that his heart turn
not away; neither shall he greatly multiply to himself silver and gold.�
NO PROHIBITION FROM HAVING SOME HORSES , SOME
WIVES and some gold]

In Deut. 21:15-17 God intervenes and acknowledges and vindicates
the second wife in a polygamous marriage where the sin of partiality
>76  was being practiced.  If polygyny were sin why didn't God
condemn it in this passage instead of covering it with the dignity and
holiness of His Law?  The wife is vindicated, not condemned.
[Footnote: >76  (James 2:1-7)]

Deut. 21:15 � �If a man have two wives, one beloved, and one hated,
and they have borne him children, [both] the beloved and the hated,
and [if] the first-born son be hers that was hated;  16 then it shall be, in
the day that he makes his sons to inherit [that] which he has, [that] he
may not make the son of the beloved first-born before the son of the
hated, who is the first-born;  17 but he shall acknowledge as first-born
the son of the hated, by giving him a double portion of all that he has;
for he is the firstfruits of his strength: the right of the
firstborn is his.�

Gideon had MANY WIVES, was blessed and used of God without any
condemnation/denunciation from God about his polygyny>77
[Footnotes:>77  (Judges 8:29-32) ]

What about the Levite�s?  These keepers of the tabernacle, did they
have special rules that kept them from polygyny? Not according to the
following, because when his concubine was mercilessly murdered by
rape, the nation of Israel rose to vindicate him and avenge her
murder.
Judges 19:1 � �And it came to pass in those days, when [there was] no
king in Israel, that there was a certain Levite,  . . . who took to him a
concubine out of Bethlehem-Judah.  2 And his concubine  . . . . went
away from him to her father's house to Bethlehem-Judah, and was
there four whole months.  3 And HER HUSBAND rose up and went
after her, to speak friendly to her, [and] to bring her again;  . . .  And
she brought him into her father's house; and when the father of the
damsel saw him he rejoiced to meet him.   4 And his FATHER-IN-
LAW, the damsel's father, retained him, and he abode with him
three days;  . . .5 . . . And the damsel's father said to his  SON-IN-LAW,
.�

SO A CONCUBINE IS NOT A HARLOT.  Just like any other wife, she
can become a harlot while married (Ezek. 16 and Hosea).  HARLOTRY
IS AN EVIL THAT EITHER A WIFE OR A CONCUBINE CAN
PRACTICE WHILE MARRIED.   Not only is a concubine not a harlot,
the Holy Spirit by the writer of the book of Judges declared the Levite
to be the concubine's "husband", declared the father of the concubine
to be the Levite's "father-in-law", and declared the Levite to be the
"son-in-law" of the concubine's father.  This is a very strong
legitimization of the husband-concubine marital status.  It is the
same legitimization of the relationship that the Holy Spirit used in
Matthew 1, calling the espoused Mary "wife" and the espoused
Joseph "husband".  If God so recognizes them and describes them, then
who are we to do any less.  By the Holy Spirit here in Judges 19 we see
that a concubine had a "husband" who was the "son-in-law" of her
father, his "father-in-law".  A wife has a "husband" who is the "son-
in-law" of her father, her husband's "father-in-law".

David is a fascinating case.  He marries Michal in l Sam. 18.  Then, as
the anointed future king of Israel, David took to himself three
additional wives in l Sam 25, and one is recognized by the Spirit for
her grace and wisdom.  He does this at a time of God's miraculous
intervention and blessing in his life.  God neither denounces or
condemns him or his polygyny.  In the case of three or four wives you
are still dealing with addition, rather than the multiplying of
Deut.

It is interesting that horses, silver and gold - AS WELL AS WIVES -
were not to be multiplied.  I can't believe this was meant to limit the
king to ONE HORSE, or ONE SILVER OR GOLD BAR,  even so I
can't believe it limits a king to one wife.

In fact in 2 Sam 6, it is Michal who is condemned and punished instead
of her polygamous husband David.  By the time he becomes King in
Judah he has 6 wives>83 and is being blessed and prospered by God.
At the time of the wonderful Covenant with David in 2 Sam. 7, God
specifically blesses and covenants with polygamist David and his
concubines and his seven wives, as part of his house, receive a
blessing. God even said "I gave you . . . your master's wives" >84  ".
["And Nathan said to David, you  are the man! Thus says    Jehovah
the God of Israel: I anointed you king over Israel, and I delivered you
out of the hand of Saul;  8 and I GAVE YOU  YOUR MASTER'S
HOUSE, AND YOUR MASTER'S WIVES INTO YOUR BOSOM, and
gave you the house of Israel and of Judah; and if [that] had been too
little, I would moreover have given unto you such and such things."
Footnotes:>83   (2 Sam. 3);  >84a 2Sa 12:7]

At this time God had �given� him seven wives plus a number of
concubines (1 Chronicles 3).  God here condemns David�s adultery and
murder, but implies His blessing on David�s polygyny .  This implied
blessing of his polygyny  would have to mean that David, with
concubines  and seven wives, had not yet violated the prohibition
against a king multiplying wives to himself. >84b to David in his
polygyny.  Apparently even concubines plus seven wives is not
"multiplying" wives to oneself. He had about 14 wives and
concubines at the end of his life>85.  David the polygamist was
declared to be loyal to God>86.   God declares that David, the
polygamist, fully followed God>87.
[Footnotes:>84b 2Sa 12:7;  >85   (1 Chron 3);  >86   ( l King 11:4);  >87
(l King
11:6)]

Both David and Abraham recognized all the rights and responsibilities
of the concubines as if they were official wives.  The bottom line is
what does God say and how does He view concubines.  Reflect on the
following: MKJV 2 Sam.12: 11 �So says the LORD, Behold, I will raise
up evil against you out of your own house, and I will take your wives
before your eyes and give [them] to your neighbor. And he shall lie
with your wives in the sight of this sun.�

MKJV 2 Sam 16: 21 �And Ahithophel said to Absalom, Go in to your
father's concubines, that he left to keep the house. And all Israel shall
hear that you are abhorred by your father. And the hands of all who
[are] with you will be strong.  22 And they spread Absalom a tent on
the top of the house, and Absalom went in to his father's concubines in
the sight of all Israel.�

MKJV2Sam.20:3 �And David came to his house at Jerusalem. And the
king took the ten women, [his] concubines, whom he had left to keep
the house, and put them in ward, and fed them but did not go in to
them. And they were shut up till the day of their death, living in
widowhood.�

In these passages you see God calling and recognizing as "wives"
David�s concubines.  If that is the way God sees them, only a fool
would treat them as less than a wife (Malachi 2).  Malachi 2 makes it
pretty clear how God feels about those who break their covenants
with their concubines and wives.

Solomon's polygyny  was sinful first because He disobeyed God�s
command against a king multiplying wives to himself>89;  and
secondly because he married unbelievers with whom God had
specifically forbidden marriage>90.  Too many wives and forbidden
wives both had the same predicted result, that they turned his heart
away from God. Solomon was declared to be disloyal to God in his
polygyny>91  while David the polygamist was declared to be loyal to
God>92  . God even declares that polygynist David fully followed
God>93 .
[Footnote: >89    (Deut. 17:15-17);  >90  (Nehemiah
13:23) ; >91    (1 Kings 11:1,2,6, 11);  >92   ( l King 11:4); >93   (l King
11:6)]

Evil king Rehoboam imitated Solomon and almost had 18 wives and
60 concubines in 2 Chron. 11 & 12. Then Godly king Abijah, blessed and
prospered of God, also had fourteen wives>94  .  The Godly High
Priest Jehoida gave two wives to godly king Joash in 2 Chron 24.
Godly queen Esther was a wife blessed by God in her  polygyny . God
Himself describes Himself as a polygamist in Ezekiel 23.  Jesus
reaffirmed the Old Testament teachings on polygamy and
concubinage in Matt. 23:2,3.
[Footnote: >94   (2 Chron. 13)]

MKJV MATT. 23:2  �. . . The scribes and the Pharisees sit in Moses'
seat. 3 Therefore whatever they tell you to observe, observe and do.
But do not do according to their works; for they say, and do not do.�

What a record!  Two authors of the Old Testament, David and
Solomon, possibly three if you count Moses, were uncondemned and
God-honored polygynists in their polygyny.  Four godly patriarchs
with whom God entered into special and unique covenants (Abraham,
Jacob, David, Solomon; five if you count Moses) were polygynists at
the time God covenanted with them.  In every era of the Old
Testament (Pre Law, Sinai Law, Judges, Kingdom prophets,
Dispersion prophets) you find God�s people and leaders practicing
polygyny and practicing it according to God�s will or commands.  Yet
many Christian leaders agree with the brother that apparently
maintains that the Bible offers little defense for polygamy in
comparison to monogamy, that because of its shortcomings polygyny
cannot be tolerated as a form of marriage willed by God.>22.  Perhaps
that's why God chose the polygamous marriage of Solomon and his
Shulamite in The Song of Solomon to be the model for marriage in
Israel and the marriage model for His relationship to Israel>95.
[Footnotes:>22.  Trobisch; MY WIFE MADE ME..P.21; >95  (Ezekiel
23)]

St. Augustine, 4th century AD of Hippo, has a good word, as follows:
" . . If our critics, then, wish to attain not a spurious and affected, but a
genuine and sound moral health, let them find a cure in believing the
Scripture record, that the honorable name of saint is given not
without reason to men who had several wives; . . .nor did the number
of their wives make the patriarchs licentious. But why defend the
husbands, to whose character the divine word bears the highest
testimony. . . ."
[Footnote: >.23  A Select Library of the Nicene and Post-Nicene
Fathers of The Christian Church, Vol. iv; p.290]

AND JESUS SAID:
Mat. 5:17 � �Think not that I am come to make void the law or the
prophets; I am not come to make void, but to fulfil.  18 For verily I say
unto you, Until the heaven and the earth pass away, one iota or one
tittle shall in no wise pass from the law till all come to pass. 19
Whosoever then shall do away with one of these least
commandments, and shall teach men so, shall be called least in
the kingdom of the heavens; but whosoever shall practise and teach
[them], *he* shall be called great in the kingdom of the heavens.�

Matt. 23:1 � �Then Jesus spoke to the crowds and to his disciples, 2
saying, The scribes and the Pharisees have set themselves down in
Moses' seat:  3 all things therefore, whatever they may tell you, do
and keep. But do not after their works, for they say and do not, . . .�

So even after Acts' Pentecost and Acts 15 the apostles and believing
Jews in Acts 21 still believed that they were to obey the Law of Moses
including the laws about marriage (including polygyny ) and morality.
The only thing they wrote about polygyny was that the elders/bishops
/deacons should have only one wife at a time (1 Tim. 3; Titus 1).

So we see Paul in Acts 21, the Apostle of Grace to we non-Jews, purify
himself as a law-keeping Jew with four other Christian Jews under a
vow, pay the expenses of their being under the vow including the
shaving of their heads,  and have an offering offered for  them all so
that he could show the believing Jews that he walked orderly, keeping
the Sinai Law and its customs and telling the believing Jews to
circumcize their children and walk in Moses' customs.  These customs
of Moses included the laws given to Moses regulating and
recognizing polygyny.   So the apostles and believing Jews were still
keeping the Law, not for salvation, but to obey Jesus in Mat. 23:1-3,
and still they do not condemn or reject the polygyny being practiced all
around them by both Jews and Romans (See the quotes below).

This means that the marriage and morality teachings of 1 Thess. 4 ;
Romans 7; 1 Corinthians 5, 6 and 7 were written before the time of
Acts 21:16 while Paul and the believing Jews, including the apostles,
were still obeying and teaching the marriage and morality laws of the
Law of Moses, discussed at length above including polygyny . The
change of significance was not that polygyny  was condemned or
forbidden but that monogamy was made a prerequisite for holding an
official position of leadership in the local church.

The polygyny  of the Jewish, Greek and Roman world was not
attacked, but the leadership of the local churches was transformed by
the monogamy restriction, probably to prevent polygamous leaders
from getting involved in church service that would result in the
neglect of time with their own children and/or wives.  What was the
actual status of polygamy in New Testament time, the First Century
AD?  Christian elders agree that during Jesus' physical and visible
walk on earth, the Jews practiced polygamy>24.�
[Footnote: >24.  Trobisch; MY WIFE MADE ME..P. 23. ;    "Polygamy
was not definitely forbidden among the Jews till the time of R.
Gershom (c. A.d. 1000), and then at first only for France and Germany.
In Spain, Italy,m and the East it persisted for some time longer, as it
does still among the Jews in Mohammedan counties".   HASTINGS
DICTIONARY OF THE BIBLE, p.584. ;   A Select Library of the Nicene
and Post-Nicene Fathers of The Christian Church, Vol. V, p. 267.;   A
Select Library of the Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers
of The Christian Church,  Vol. iv,  p.290.; A Select Library of the
Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers of The Christian Church, Vol. VIII,  p.
258. ;    St. Augustin: On The Trinity, p. 402.;    HASTINGS
DICTIONARY OF THE BIBLE, p.259,  583ff.]

It is incredible to think that Jesus and the apostles would say nothing
about such a widespread contemporary practice as polygyny if it were
indeed sinful, less than God's best, carnal and reprobate to good
works.  God never said such a thing in Old Testament times and He
obviously never said such a thing in New Testament times.  When you
consider how specific God was in Lev. chaps. 18-22; Deut. chaps. 22-
24; Romans 1; 1 Cor. 6; 2 Cor. 6; Gal. 5 and etc.,  I can not believe that
God would "forget" to include polygyny if it is as bad as most
Christian leaders say  it is.

"Yet polygyny  is adopted from the time of Lamech (Gn. 4:19), and is
not forbidden in Scripture . . ..  Polygamy continues to the present day
among Jews in Moslem, Hindu, Buddhist, Asian, Oriental, and African
countries." [>25
IVCF, Editor J.D.Douglas;  1962,W. B. Eerdmans Publishing, p.787]

"Polygamy was not definitely forbidden among the Jews till the time of
R. Gershom (c. A.D. 1000), and then at first only for France and
Germany.  In Spain, Italy, and the East it persisted for some time
longer, as it does still among the Jews in Mohammedan countries."
[Footnote: >28.  HASTINGS DICTIONARY OF THE BIBLE;  p.583ff.]




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PART ONE: FILE TITLES, DOCUMENTS AVAILABLE

� Abortion, Malicious Bias, & Genocide (abortion.txt)
� Angels, Demons & Spirits (AngelsDemonsSpirits.txt;
YouAndAngels)
� Biblical Insights on Sex, Morality & Pornography
(BiblcaLSexPornMorality)
� Black Families' Crisis (PlightOfBlkFem-Fam.txt;
BlackFamResrcs+.txt;
               Black.Family.Resrcs)
� Camelot, a Tale of Tragic Love ( A_Camelot_Dedication.txt)
� Cherishing Your Women (CherishYourWomen1.txt)
� Christian Divorce (Divorce_&_Polygamy.html)
� Christians and the Tithe ( ChristianTithe.txt )
� Common Law & Informal Marriages
(ComnlawInfrmlMarriage.txt)
� Crisis Resolution in the Unity of the Spirit (CrisisResolution.txt)
� Disciples and Their Suffering (Why_Disciples_Suffer.txt;
               WhyBelieversSuffer.html)
� Divorce & Remarriage (Divorce_Remarriage.txt;
Divorce_&_Polygamy.html;
               Christian_Divorce.txt; Christian_Divorce)
� Easter Insights (Easter_Insights.txt; Easter_Insights)
� How and When to Marry (WhenHowMarry.txt)
� How to Survive Divorce (HowSurvive_Divorce.txt)
� Husband Wife Relations (HusbandWifeRelatnsMngny.txt;
               Husband.Wife.Relatns)
� Husbands Rule Wives? (HusbandRuleWife.txt)
� Interracial/Interethnic Marriage (InterracialEthncMarrg.txt;

               RacelessMarriage)
� Is Jesus Jehovah God? (IsJesusJehovahGod.txt)
� Keeping One's Word (KeepingOne'sWord.txt )
� Keys to Loving Unity in Families and Fellowships
(KeysMLovingUnity.txt;
               Keys4LovingUnity.txt)
� The "Let" command of 1 Corinthians 7:9 (Let_Command.txt )
� Man's Need Of Woman (Man'sNeedOfWoman.txt;
MenNeedWomen)
�The Marriage of the Godly Lasts Until Death Separates

               (Divorce_&_Polygamy.html)
� Marital Intimacy Manual for Contributors
(MrtlIntmcyMn4Cntrs.txt)
� Matchmaker Resources (MatchmakerResrcsInt)
� Me In Christ, What Does It All Mean Really?
(WhatIAmInChrist1.txt)
� Me In This World, Why? (Why_Me_&_This_World.txt;
               Why_Me_Now.txt;     Why_Me_In_World.html)
� No Wedding Vows (NoWeddingVows.txt )
� Oaths, Swearings, Promises (OathsSwrngsPrmss.txt;
MarriageOaths)
� Plight Of the Black Family (PlightOfBlkFem-Fam.txt)
� Plight Of the Black Female (PlightOfBlkFem-Fam.txt)
� Power Of Female Beauty (PowrOfFemBeauty.txt)
� Prayers for Loved Ones (Prayers4LuvdOnes.txt)
� Prisoner Abuse (PrisonerAbuse.txt)
� Quotes On Polygyny (QuotesOnPolygyny.txt )
� Racism, Nationalism and Bigotry (racsm.natnlsm.bigtry.txt)
� Safe sex? (safe_sex.txt)
� Seniors & Polygamy (senior_polygamy.txt)
� Sex and Dependent Singles ( Youths_Singles_Sex.txt;
               UnderageSexBurning.txt)
� Song Of Solomon Part1 (SongOfSolomonPt1.txt)
� Spiritual Warfare (Spiritual_Warfare.txt)
� The Suffering of the Innocent (Why_Disciples_Suffer.txt;
               WhyBelieversSuffer.html)
� The Tithe & Christians (Tithe&Christians.txt)
� Truth vs Falsehoods (truth_vs_lies.txt)
� Underage Sexual Burning and 1 Corinth. 10:13 (
Youths_Singles_Sex.txt;
               UnderageSexBurning.txt)
� Unequal Yokes, Interfaith Marriages (UnequalYokes.txt)
� Unplanned Polygyny, a Trail of Tears (UnplannedPolygyny2.Txt)
� Wedding Covenants (WeddingCovenants.txt)
� Who is Tyler? (WhoLTyler.txt)
� Why Only One Husband? (WhyOnly1Husbnd.txt)
� Why Do "Good" People Suffer? (Why_Disciples_Suffer.txt;
               WhyBelieversSuffer.html)
� Why I belive Jesus (Why_I_Believe_Jesus.txt)
� Why Would a Wife Share Her Husband? (WhyWifeShreHsbnd.txt)
� Polygamy Resources ( PolyResources2.txt)
� Polygamy, Divorce & Remarriage (Divorce_&_Polygamy.html;
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               Divorce_and_PolygamyPt2.html;
Divorce+PolygamyPt1.txt;
               Divorce+PolygamyPt2.txt)
� Polygamy and Christians Today (ChristianPolyToday.txt )
� Polygamy and Concubines in the Bible (PolygamyConcubines.txt)
� Polygamy and the Law (Legal_Polygamy.txt)
� Polygamy and the Reformation (reformationpoly.txt)
� Polygamy in a Nutshell (minipoly.txt, Polygyny_core.txt;
               polyamory_unknown.html )
� Polygamy, Traditional Criticisms (objections2poly.txt)
� Polygamy's Transition from Old Testament to New Testament times
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� Polygamy, Morality and Pornography (PolyMoralityPorn76.txt;
polyandry)
� Polygamy's/Polygyny's  Scriptures and Contexts
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Precious reader, do you know exactly where you stand with the
God and Creator of the universe?  Have you asked Him to be your
Father in the Heavens?  Have you believed/trusted/relied/depended
on the Lord/King Jesus Christ ---the God anointed Saviour King of
Israel ----to save you from your faults, failures and mistakes?

Salvation from personal faults/failures/mistakes belongs to the
poor in spirit.  Matt. 5:3 says, "Blessed are the poor in spirit, for theirs
is
the kingdom of heaven." If you recognize that you are spiritually
destitute---totally incapable of deserving or earning salvation from
your errors in any way, you are poor in spirit-- you are humble.   The
poor in spirit, the humble, understand that they are sinners, totally
impotent to please or to serve God.

To acknowledge that you are a sinner unable to save yourself is
humility.  Christ Jesus came into the world to save sinners (1 Tim.
1:15).  Isaiah said, "When You make His soul an offering for sin, He
shall see [His] seed.  He shall prolong [His] days and the pleasure of
the
Lord shall prosper in His hand.  He shall see the distressing travail of
His soul, and be satisfied.  By His knowledge My righteous Servant
shall justify many, for He shall bear their iniquities."

Poverty of spirit (humility) is interwoven in the act of
repentance, the life-altering change of mind about you, your sin and
God.  When you repent (change your mind), you see yourself as you
really are and you change your mind in respect to your relationship to
God the Father and to His Son, the Lord Jesus Christ.  The act of
repentance brings you to see your sin as ugly as it is, as God sees it,
and
you come to a point where you want to be free from it.

Of course, freedom from sin comes only by believing/trusting/
relying on the Lord Jesus Christ.  The one who is regularly committing
sin is the slave of sin.  However, if the Son shall set you free from
regularly committing sin, you shall be free indeed (John 8:334,36)

The poor in spirit see their impotence to free themselves from
sin/failures/faults/errors.  They see that freedom is possible only
through Christ's  death for us as our substitute.  They recognize that
salvation/deliverance comes by God's act of undeserved and
unmeritted kindness and mercy alone.  They choose to believe God
and His Word about themselves and their relationship with Him.

One cannot speak of the Crucifixion apart from the Resurrection.
It is the resurrection that gives us newness of life.  Christ's
resurrection
testifies to two vital truths.  One, it shows that God was propitiated,
or
satisfied, with the substitutionary death of Jesus Christ.  Jesus became
the bearer of our sins.  Isaiah's word is "But he was wounded/pierced
for our transgressions, bruised/crushed for our iniquities; The
chastisement for our peace was upon Him, and by His stripes (from
the
cutting whips) we are healed."  In Romans 4:25 we read, "[He] who
was
delivered up because of our transgressions, and was raised [from the
dead] because of our justification."  "Raised because of our justifica-
tion" means that because Jesus' payment (the death of His body) for
our
sins was adequate to satisfy the demands of justice and a Holy God,
God could then declare us righteous, justified and made acceptable in
His sight.  Jesus was raised from death because His death for us
satisfied
the righteousness of our Holy God.

His resurrection shows us that Jesus Christ conquered death.
Death had a holdover man because of his sin/error/failures/faults.
However, once the death penalty of sin was paid for by the death of
Christ's body, death no longer had any holding power.  "The sting of
death is sin, and the power of sin is the law" (1 Corinth. 15:56).  Jesus
paid the price of redemption, redeeming us from the curse of the Law,
having become a curse for us ---for cursed was everyone who was
hung
on a tree/stake (Deut. 21:23; Gala. 3:13).

His death took away the power of sin. Jesus also took the stinger
out of death by paying for our sin so that we need have no fear of
what
awaits us in and after death. Because our sin debt is paid for in full by
Christ, death has no power over us.

Dear reader, have you come to the end of yourself? Have you
seen your total impotence, your total unworthiness? Have you seen
your nothingness apart from God?  And have you seen Jesus, God the
Son who took upon Himself flesh and blood that He might die for you
and for all people?   Have you decided that you want His Way and Will
in and for your life instead of your own will and way?

Do you  believe that? Do you believe He died in your place? Do
you believe that He was made sin for you, so that you, a helpless and
hopeless enemy of God, might have His righteousness and His life?
Have you repented---turned away from self-will to believe on the
Lord
Jesus Christ----the God anointed Saviour King of Israel?  Out loud
with
your mouth agree with God about the God anointed Saviour King of
Israel, and you will be saved, "for with the heart man believes,
resulting in righteousness, and with the mouth he confesses [Jesus],
resulting in salvation." Romans 10:10-13.
Joel 2: 32 And it shall be, whoever shall call on the name of the LORD
shall be saved; for salvation shall be in Mount Zion and in Jerusalem,
as the LORD has said, and in the remnant whom the LORD shall call.
Ps 119:6 Then I shall not be ashamed, when I have respect to all Your
commandments.
Ps 119:80 Let my heart be sound in Your statutes, so that I may not be
ashamed.
Ps 119:116 Uphold me according to Your word, that I may live; and let
me not be ashamed of my hope.

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THEY
SYSTEMATICALLY TORTURE AND KILL  BORN-AGAIN
BELIEVERS IN
CHRIST FOR THEIR FAITH, (2) THEY SYSTEMATICALLY
EXECUTE
PRISONERS FOR NON CAPTIAL CRIMES TO HARVEST THEIR
BODY
ORGANS FOR SALE ABROAD,  (3) THEY FORCE
MOTHERS/FAMILIES TO  ABORT ALL OF THEIR UNBORN
INFANTS EXCEPT FOR ONE PER FAMILY, AND FEMALE
UNBORN INFANTS ARE THE MOST COMMON VICTIMS.
The Chinese Communists have killed more Christians in fifty years
than the
Romans killed in the first four hundred years of the Church age
(Marshall's
book of modern martyrs, "Their Blood Cries Out" ).

PLEASE BOYCOTT PRODUCTS MADE IN SUDAN, ESPECIALLY
BY NOT BUYING SOFT DRINKS AND JUICE DRINKS THAT
CONTAIN ESTER GUM ROSIN OR ESTER OF WOOD ROSIN,
BECAUSE THEY ARE SYSTEMATICALLY TORTURING, RAPING,
ENSLAVING AND KILLING SUDANESE BELIEVERS IN CHRIST
SOLELY BECAUSE OF THEIR FAITH.
What am I talking about? In Marshall's book of modern martyrs,
"Their Blood
Cries Out" consider this incident.   Jihad Muslims in their
antiChristian fury
kidnapped a young Christian girl. As they began to abuse her she
began to
sweetly sing hymns and pslams as the Spirit worked 1 Peter 4:12-19 in
her.  As
they raped her repeatedly she kept on singing hymns and psalms,
apparently
unphased by her abusers as Jesus was keeping His 1 Cor. 10:13
promise to her.
After hours of physical and sexual abuse, during which she kept on
singing
psalms and hymns, these radical Jihad Muslims decided they had
enough of
her and shot her.  She kept on singing (the fulfillment of Matt. 10:16-
20, 27-32)
as the blood flowed out of the wound.  Amazed, they shot her again to
silence
her.  She miraculously kept on singing songs of praise and worship of
Jesus as
her blood was leaving her body.  Troubled and stunned they couldn't
believe
or uderstand what they were seeing and hearing of her dying, and in a
frenzied
effort to silence her singing one of these rabidly antiChristian
Muslems took a
machete and chopped her throat-------and finally she was silent.
Bewildered
and angry they dumped her body, after Jesus' angels in glory had
lovingly
ministered to her spirit as she
met Jesus and entered into His eternal Love, Peace, Joy and Life.
Having died
like her Lord, she now lives forever like her Lord.  This world was not
worthy
of such a blessed and wondrous little sister.

PLEASE BOYCOTT DISNEY AND DISNEYLAND PRODUCTS
AND
FACILITIES BECAUSE OF THE ANTICHRISTIAN AND ANTIGOD
PRODUCTS, SHOWS AND MOVIES THEY ARE PUTTING OUT
NOW.

Appendix:   Naked vs. Bare
Is a woman evil is she is publicly naked, without clothing but using
something besides clothing to cover her loins/genitals?
Is God's will for such a woman is that she be clothed, that one clothe
her, with no connotation of evil?
What is God's will for the woman naked in public, but not
exposing/baring her genitals/loins?

Yes a woman is evil if she is publicly bare, exposing her genitals in
public (in pictures or in person). It is His will that we be clothed and
not naked.  He never says anyone who is naked is evil or sinning.  He
wants us to cover/clothe the naked.  When you have a picture of a
naked woman who hasn't bared/isn't baring her genitals, cover her
loins/vulva and rump (gluteous maximus)

It is considered evil to bare your genitals in public. It is understood to
be a punishment from God.
It is not a good thing.  A woman who bares her vulva is doing an evil
thing and is an evil person and must be dealt with as an evil person.  It
is an evil worthy of death to enjoy or derive pleasure from a woman
who bares/exposes her vulva.

�       ***Gen.3:7 And the eyes of them both  were opened <06491>
(8735), and they knew  that they [were] naked <05903>;
[05903 `eyrom {ay-rome'}    adj. 1) naked;  n. m. 2) nakedness]
This appears to be a part of knowing good and evil.  Before all they
had known was good and good living.  Now they also knew evil and
evil living.  Having entered the era of sin and death, they probably
came under conviction by the Holy Spirit to cover their
nakedness/loins/genitals
Job 1:21 And he said, I came naked out of my mother's womb, and
naked shall I return there. The LORD gave, and the LORD has taken
away. Blessed [be] the name of the LORD.
Job 22:6 For you have taken a pledge from your brother for nothing,
and stripped the naked of their clothing.
Job 24:7 They lodge the naked without clothing, and [give] no covering
in the cold.
Job 24:10 They cause [him] to go naked without clothing, and they take
away the sheaves from the hungry
Ec 5:15 As he came forth from his mother's womb naked, he shall
return to go as he came. And from his labor he may not carry anything
that may go in his hand.
Isa 20:2 at that time the LORD spoke by Isaiah the son of Amoz,
saying, Go and take the sackcloth off your loins, and take your shoe
off your foot. And he did so, walking naked and barefoot.
Isa 20:4 so shall the king of Assyria lead away Egypt's prisoners, and
the Ethiopian exiles, young and old, naked and barefoot, even with
uncovered buttocks, [to] the shame of Egypt.
Isa 58:7 Is it not to deal thy bread to the hungry, and that thou bring to
thy house the needy wanderers; when thou seest the naked, that thou
cover him; and that thou hide not thyself from thine own flesh?
Eze 18:7 and has not ill-treated any man, [but] has given the debtor's
pledge back to him, has robbed none by violence, has given his bread to
the hungry and has covered the naked with a garment;
Mt 25:36 I was naked, and you clothed Me; I was sick, and you visited
Me; I was in prison, and you came to Me.
1Co 4:11 Even until this present hour we both hunger and thirst and
are naked and are buffeted and have no certain dwelling place.
Jas 2:15 If a brother or sister is naked and destitute of daily food,
�       ***and they sewed fig  leaves  together, and made themselves
aprons <02290>
[02290 chagowr {khag-ore'}; 1) girdle, belt
2) girdle, loin-covering, belt, loin-cloth, armour]
loin-covering and loin-clothes cover the lower back, thighs and groin
(the fold or crease formed at the juncture of the thigh and the
abdomen).
God didn't tell them to do this.  They just did it on their own, as a part
of their knew knowledge of evil.  As if they knew that because of evil in
the world, they needed to cover their genitals when in public.
****Ge 35:11 And God said unto him, I [am] God Almighty: be fruitful
and multiply; a nation and a company of nations shall be of thee, and
kings shall come out of thy loins;
Ge 37:34 And Jacob rent his clothes, and put sackcloth upon his loins,
and mourned for his son many days.
Ge 46:26 All the souls that came with Jacob into Egypt, which came out
of his loins, besides Jacob's sons' wives, all the souls [were] threescore
and six;
Ex 1:5 And all the souls that came out of the loins of Jacob were
seventy souls: for Joseph was in Egypt [already].
Ex 12:11 And thus shall ye eat it; [with] your loins gird
2Ch 6:9 Notwithstanding thou shalt not build the house; but thy son
which shall come forth out of thy loins, he shall build the house for my
name.
DID NOT INCLUDE THE THIGHS
Da 5:6 Then the king's countenance was changed, and his thoughts
troubled him, so that the joints of his loins were loosed, and his knees
smote one against another.
Ex 28:42 And thou shalt make them linen breeches to cover their
nakedness; from the loins even unto the thighs they shall reach:
Jer 30:6 Ask ye now, and see whether a man doth travail with child?
wherefore do I see every man with his hands on his loins, as a woman
in travail, and all faces are turned into paleness?
Ac 2:30 Therefore being a prophet, and knowing that God had sworn
with an oath to him, that of the fruit of his loins, according to the
flesh, he would raise up Christ to sit on his throne;
Heb 7:5* And verily they that are of the sons of Levi, who receive the
office of the priesthood, have a commandment to take tithes of the
people according to the law, that is, of their brethren, though they
come out of the loins of Abraham:
NOT COVERING YOUR LOINS MEANS YOU ARE NAKED
Isa 20:2 At the same time spake the LORD by Isaiah the son of Amoz,
saying, Go and loose the sackcloth from off thy loins, and put off thy
shoe from thy foot. And he did so, walking naked and barefoot.

�       ***Gen. 3: 21 � Unto Adam  also and to his wife  did the LORD
God make <06213> (8799) coats <03801> of skins,
[03801 k@thoneth {keth-o'-neth} or kuttoneth
1) tunic, under-garment
  1a) a long shirt-like garment usually of linen]
�        ***and clothed them <03847> (8686).
[03847 labash {law-bash'} or labesh {law-bashe'}
1) to dress, wear, clothe, put on clothing, be clothed
  1c) (Hiphil) to clothe, array with, dress]
God didn't ask them if they wanted to be clothed.  He sovereignly
clothed them.  This is obviously His will for people in public.  So the
nudist clubs and groups of the world exist in defiance of the will of
God.
Ex 28:42 And you shall make them linen breeches to cover the naked
flesh; from the loins even to the thighs they shall reach.
2Ch 28:15 And the men who were called by name rose up and took the
captives and clothed all that were naked among them with the
plunder, and dressed them, and shod them,
2Co 5:3 if indeed [in] being clothed, we shall not be found naked.
Re 16:15* Behold, I am coming as a thief. Blessed [is] the [one] who
watches and keeps his garments, lest he walk naked and they see his
shame.
****ON THE OTHER HAND
Isa 3:17 therefore the LORD will strike with a scab the crown of the
head of the daughters of Zion, and the LORD will make their secret
parts naked.
Isa 32:11 Tremble, women at ease; be troubled, careless ones; strip
yourselves and make yourselves bare, and bind [sackcloth] on your
loins.
Isaiah 47: 1 � Come down, and sit on the dust, O virgin daughter of
Babylon; sit on the ground. [There is] no throne [for you], O daughter
of the Chaldeans. For you shall no more be called tender and delicate.
2 Take the millstones and grind meal. Push back your veil, draw up
your skirt, uncover your leg, pass over the rivers.
3 Your nakedness shall be uncovered, yea, your shame shall be seen; I
will take vengeance and I will not meet [you as] a man.
Jer 13:26 So I also have stripped off your skirts over your face, that
your shame may appear.
Ho 2:3 lest I strip her naked and set her out as in the day that she was
born; and lest I make her as the wilderness, and set her like a dry land,
and slay her with thirst.

�       ***Eze 16:7 I have caused you to multiply like the bud of the
field, and you are grown, and you are great; and you come [in] the
finest ornaments. [Your] breasts <07699>  are formed <03559> (8738),
[07699 shad {shad} or shod {shode}
1) breast, bosom, (female) breast]
[03559 kuwn {koon}
1) to be firm, be stable, be established
  1a) (Niphal)
      1a1) to be set up, be established, be fixed
           1a1a) to be firmly established
           1a1b) to be established, be stable, be
               secure, be enduring
           1a1c) to be fixed, be securely determined
      1a2) to be directed aright, be fixed aright,
           be steadfast  (moral sense)
      1a3) to prepare, be ready
      1a4) to be prepared, be arranged, be settled]

�       ***and hair is grown, yet you [were] naked <05903>
[05903 `eyrom {ay-rome'} or `erom {ay-rome'}
adj1) naked;  n m2) nakedness]
This is the idea of having no clothes or garments on.  She was naked,
not having any clothes or garments on.

�       ***and bare.<06181>
[06181 `eryah {er-yaw'}
1) nudity, nakedness]
This is the idea of being open to view, exposed, laid bare. She was not
only naked, but she was naked and open to view, exposed, laid bare.
So the question is not "Can she be naked/nude/uncovered [unclothed,
stripped] but not bare/exposed/open/nude?"  God's and Adam's
solution for their being naked and bare was to cover their loins
(crotch, genital, leg thigh juncture).  God's will is that, in public,
we not be naked and bare, rather He wants us to be clothed.  God's
will is for models, posing for photographs or artists, to not be naked
and bare, but to have their loins

***10 I clothed <03847> (8686) thee also with broidered work
[03847 labash {law-bash'} or labesh {law-bashe'}
1) to dress, wear, clothe, put on clothing, be clothed
  1c) (Hiphil) to clothe, array with, dress]
*** <07553>, and shod <05274> (8799) thee with badgers' skin
<08476>, and I girded <02280> (8799) thee about with fine
[02280 chabash {khaw-bash'}
1) to tie, bind, bind on, bind up, saddle, restrain, bandage, govern
  1a) (Qal)
      1a1) to bind, bind on
      1a2) to bind up]

***linen <08336>, and I covered <03680> (8762) thee with silk
<04897>.
[03680 kacah {kaw-saw'}
1) to cover, conceal, hide
  1c) (Piel)
      1c1) to cover, clothe
      1c2) to cover, conceal
      1c3) to cover (for protection)
      1c4) to cover over, spread over
      1c5) to cover, overwhelm]

Eze 16:22 And in all your hateful deeds and your fornications you have
not remembered the days of your youth, when you were naked and
bare, [and] squirming in your blood.
Eze 16:39 And I will also give you into their hand, and they will tear
down your mound, and will demolish your high places. They shall also
strip <06584> (8689) [06584 pashat {paw-shat'}
1) to strip, invade, strip off, make a dash, raid, spread out
   1c) (Hiphil)
      1c1) to strip of]
      1c2) to strip off
      1c3) to flay

thee also of thy clothes <0899>, and shall take your beautiful things,
and leave you naked <05903> and bare <06181>.
Eze 23:29 And they shall deal with you in hatred, and shall take away
all your labor, and shall leave you naked and bare. And the nakedness
of your fornications shall be uncovered, both your wickedness and
your fornications.


Le 20:19 And thou shalt not uncover the nakedness of thy mother's
sister, nor of thy father's sister: for he uncovereth his near kin: they
shall bear their iniquity.


APPENDIX OF FOOTNOTES (STRONG'S ETC.)

7901 See above
0160 'ahabahStrong's {a-hab-aw}f of 0158; TWOT - 29c; n f
1) love [+Y's]
  1a) human love for human object
      1a1) of man toward man
      1a2) of man toward himself
      1a3) between man and woman
      1a4) sexual desire
2) God's love to His people

1331  masculine pl. of the same as 01330; n f
1) virginity
Young's + Davidson/Bagster: Tokens [proofs] of virginity

1540 galah Strong's {gaw-law'} a primitive root;  v
1) to uncover, remove
 1c) (Piel 8765, 8840)
      1c1) to uncover (nakedness)
           1c1a) nakedness
      1c2) to disclose, discover, lay bare
       1c3) to make known, show, reveal

1717 dad Strong's {dad} apparently from the same as 01730; n m
1) breast [+Y's], nipple, teat [+Y's]
Davidson/Bagster: breasts, the two breasts of a woman

2233 zera`Strong's {zeh'-rah}from 02232; n m
1) seed, sowing, offspring
  1a) a sowing
  1b) seed [ also Youngs]
  1c) semen, virile [Davidson/Bagster: I. seed; III. issue, progeny]

02781 cherpah {kher-paw'}from 02778;n f
1) reproach, scorn
  1b) reproach (resting upon condition of shame, disgrace)
  1c) a reproach (an object)

2834 chasaph {khaw-saf'}a primitive root; v
1) to strip, strip off, lay bare, make bare
  1a) (Qal)
      1a1) to strip off
      1a2) to strip, lay bare

2930 tame' Strong's {taw-may'}a primitive root; v
1) to be unclean [+Y's], become unclean [+Y's], become impure
  1b) (Niphal 8738)
      1b1) to defile oneself, be defiled
           1b1a) sexually
      1b2) to be regarded as unclean
Tyler: Almost all fluids of the body could make Israelites ceremonially
unclean,
affecting their worship and participation in temple activities.   The
uncleanness issue
apparently was dealt with in Acts 10 and 11 with Ephes. 2 and Colos.
2, so that bodily
fluids, especially sexual fluids, do not affect our ability to worship the
Lord or participate in Church activities.

4600 ma`ak Strong's {maw-ak'} a primitive root; v
1) to press, squeeze
    1b) (Pual 8795, 8849) to be handled, be pressed [+Davidson/Bagster]
Young's: to be bruised.

4726 maqowr Strong's {maw-kore'} or maqor Strong's {maw-kore'}
from 06979; TWOT - 2004a; n m
1) spring, fountain [+Davidson/Bagster]
  1c) source (of menstruous blood)
  1d) flow (of blood after child birth)
Tyler: of the vulva/vagina/penis/nipple

4904 mishkab Strong's {mish-kawb'} from 07901; n m
1) a lying down, couch, bier, act of lying
  1a) couch, bed
  1b) act of lying, lying down or sleeping room, bedroom
  1c) lying down (for sexual contact)
For sure this includes contact with the vulva/breasts, but this is vague
enough to
include contact with the penis as well.

5079 niddah Strong's {nid-daw'}from 05074; n f
1) impurity, filthiness, menstruous, set apart
  1a) impurity
      1a1) of ceremonial impurity
      1a2) of menstruation
Young's: impurity, separation
Tyler: This probably includes the vulva's lubricating and orgasmic
fluids.

5414  Strong's <5414. (8799) <7903>
05414 nathanStrong's {naw-than'} a primitive root;  v
1) to give, put, set [sexual copulation]
  1a) (Qal 8799)
      1a1) to give, bestow, grant, permit, ascribe, employ, devote,
           consecrate, dedicate, pay wages, sell, exchange, lend,
           commit, entrust, give over, deliver up, yield produce,
           occasion, produce, requite to, report, mention, utter,
           stretch out, extend [sexual copulation]
      1a2) to put, set, put on, put upon, set, appoint, assign,
           designate [sexual copulation]
      1a3) to make, constitute [sexual copulation]

6031 `anah Strong's {aw-naw'}a primitive root [possibly rather ident.
with 06030
through the idea of looking down or browbeating]; v
2) to afflict [+Y's], oppress, humble [+Y's], be afflicted, be bowed down
 2c) (Piel  8762)
      2c1) to humble, mishandle, afflict
      2c2) to humble, be humiliated
      2c3) to afflict
      2d4) to humble, weaken oneself
Davidson/Bagster: I. humbled, afflicted; to oppress, subdue, afflict,
humble;. --II.
afflicted; had connexion with a woman; to sexually ravish a woman]

6168 `arah Strong's {aw-raw'}
a primitive root; TWOT - 1692; v
1) to be bare, be nude, uncover, leave destitute, discover, empty,
  raze, pour out
  1b) (Hiphil 8689, 8818)
      1b1) to make naked, strip bare (of sexual offences) [+Y's]

6172 `ervah Strong's {er-vaw'}from 06168; TWOT - 1692b; n f
1) nakedness, nudity, shame, pudenda [nudity of external
genital/vulva]
  1a) pudenda (implying shameful exposure)
  1b) nakedness of a thing, indecency, improper behaviour

6213 `asah Strong's {aw-saw'}a primitive root; TWOT - 1708,1709; v
2) (Piel 8840, 8765) to press, squeeze [+Davidson/Bagster; also
pressed, injured]
Young's: do, make

06777 tsammah {tsam-maw'}from an unused root meaning to fasten on;
n f
1) veil, woman's veil

7250 raba`Strong's {raw-bah'}a primitive root; v
1) to lie stretched out, lie down
  1a) (Qal 8800)
      1a1) to lie down [+Y's]
           1a1b) for copulation (of woman with beast)

7301 ravah Strong's {raw-vaw'}
a primitive root; TWOT - 2130; v
1) to be satiated or saturated, have or drink one's fill
  1b) (Piel 8762, 8840)
      1b1) to be drunk, be intoxicated
      1b2) to drench, water abundantly, saturate
       Young's: water, satiate

07640 shebel {show'-bel}from an unused root meaning to flow; n m
1) flowing skirt, train

07686 shagahStrong's {shaw-gaw'}a primitive root; v
1) to go astray, stray, err
  1a) (Qal 8799, 8851)
      1a1) to err, stray
      1a2) to swerve, meander, reel, roll, be intoxicated, err (in
           drunkenness)
      1a3) to go astray (morally)
      1a4) to commit sin of ignorance or inadvertence, err (ignorantly)
Young's: to err, go astray, magnify self [erection?]
Davidson/Bagster: I. to wander, go astray.---II. to err, sin through
ignorance

07785 showq {shoke}from 07783;  n f
1) leg, thigh

7902 shekabah Strong's {shek-aw-baw'}from 07901;  n f
1) act of lying, layer, coating
  1a) act of lying (of sexual relations)
Youngs: Effusion
Davidson/Bagster: the act of lying with
Tyler: Effusion means sperm ejaculation, especially the sperm
entering another body
cavity.  For sure this includes sexual/sensual actions involving the
vulva/breasts,
but the effusion/layer/coating meaning could also include sperm on
the hands from genital petting, sperm in the
mouth or anus, or sperm on any part of either of their bodies.

7903 shekobeth Strong's {shek-o'-beth}from 07901; n f
1) copulation [FunkWagnall: 1. sexual intercourse/connection; coition.
2. A coupling
or being coupled; union]
Young's: To give an effusion  [sperm ejaculation, especially the sperm
entering
another body cavity]

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