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From: teitz@aecom.UUCP (Eliyahu Teitz)
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Subject: Re: Re: Black's ravings (comment about Sodom)
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Date: Tue, 12-Mar-85 15:13:57 EST
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> 
> Regarding R. Brower's comment to Black about "where do you see
> homosexuality mentioned in the story about Sodom...", Genesis
> 19:5 says,
> 
>    "They called to Lot, `Where are the men who came to you
>    tonight?  Bring them out to us so that we can have sex with
>    them.'" (NIV)
> 
> The passage goes on to say that the angels struck all of the men
> blind, told Lot to gather up his people, and nuked the city.
> Seems pretty clear, ja?
> -- 

	The word used in the Bible ( Hebrew version ) is literally, and
 we will know them. The word to "know" is used to mean sexual relations
 in other places ( Genesis Ch. 4, verse 1 - And Adam knew Eve his wife,
 and she conceived and bore Cain ).

			Eliyahu Teitz.