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Like many similar commandments, the stated punishment for wilful violation is the death penalty.

In practice, the death penalty has not been practised in Judaism for over 2, 000 years.

Rabbinic Judaism does not believe that the preceding verses refer to what is nowadays described as a homosexual inclination, nor do these verses refer to lesbian sexual activity.

Instead, these verses specifically refer to an act of anal sex between two male Jews.