Training Day Evergreen Bible Church
Training Day at Evergreen Bible Church:
Age Appropriate Sexual Health and Safety Education
Contents
Introduction………………………………………………………………………………2-3
Genesis 1-5
Ages 1-5………………………………………………………………….………………4-5
Genesis 6-11
Ages 6-11…………………………………………………………………….…………..6-8
Genesis 12-50
Ages 12-18……………………………………………………………………………….9-19
Key Vocabulary…………………………………………………………………………20-40
Biblical Index of Sexual Health and Safety Terms……………………………………..41-70
Introduction
Welcome to Training Day at Evergreen Bible Church. This workshop focuses on age-appropriate health and safety content for children ages 1-18. Three developmental stages are covered: ages 1-5, 6-11, and 12-18. The life and ethics of Christ as reflected in the Book of Genesis, is the foundation for this work. Genesis 1-5 provides content for teaching young children about the goodness of God in Creation and human sexuality. Chapters 6-11 address health and safety for pre-teens, and Genesis 12-50 educates adolescent children on comprehensive sexual health topics, preparing them for covenantal marriage.
My passion is to present a Biblical Christlike conversation to assist parents. As a Christian sex therapist, I neither prescribe sexual behaviors nor promote sexual politics. The Bible mandates 7 times that parents are the primary teachers for their children, not institutional professionals. The following Scriptures specifically direct parents to educate their children. Hover your cursor over these references and you will be directed to the Blue Letter Bible for deeper study. (Deuteronomy 4:9-10; 6:4-10; 11:19; Psalm 34:11; 78:5-6) My dream is to help restore this beautiful and sacred responsibility to parents.
Each age-appropriate term we examine connects to a Biblical Sexual Health Index I created for richer study and reflection. If you enjoy the Biblical languages of Hebrew and Greek, you can access these tools with the index linking to the Blue Letter Bible. For example:
3H. Parental Affection, Sexual Connection, dah-BACH (Gen 2:24) Strong, h1692
“3H” is the index number showing the third health positive term in Genesis. “H” stands for the Hebrew language. The definition follows next, “parental affection or sexual connection”. The Hebrew pronunciation, dah-BACH, emphasizes the second syllable, BACH, which sounds like the last name of the great composer, Johann Sebastian BACH. Hover your cursor over (Genesis 2:24), and a hyperlink takes you to the Blue Letter Bible so you can study this verse in context. Hover over the concordance number, Strong, h1692, and you will connect to exhaustive definitions from multiple sources. And if you are passionate, you can examine every passage in the entire Bible where the word, parental affection or sexual connection, occurs using the Blue Letter Bible.
The Hebrew word for parental affection also appears in the New Testament.
3G. Parental Affection, Sexual Connection, kah-LA-oh (Mat 19:5) Strong, g2853
“3G” identifies this as the New Testament Greek term for the Hebrew counterpart, “3H” dah-BACH. The Greek word is pronounced with the emphasis on the “LA”, kah-LA-oh. Hover your cursor over the Scripture or the concordance number Strong, g2853, and you will be directed to the Blue Letter Bible.
All citations come from the New International Version. WLC is the abbreviation for the Westminster Leningrad Codex, the oldest and most complete scholarly Hebrew Bible. GNT stands for the Greek Morphological New Testament. Both of these texts are standards in advanced studies.
In addition, you will find a Key Vocabulary with current neuroscience to understand the developmental processes of your children as you teach them about sexual health and safety. As an application, I will show you how to enjoy this content through Nature Immersion: The Creation Walk. This evidence-based discipline is the most pleasurable practice I have ever known. You may enjoy taking your family into the forest or on the beach to illustrate these great Biblical health and safety truths.
Finally, I believe a benevolent Father-God inspired the Bible through His Spirit, without error in the original texts, authoritative for all matters of life, and incapable of failing our families. My dream is to give to the next generation a Godly-sane vision of the first theology of Scripture: the goodness and beauty of creation with sexual health, and safety for our children. What if, Scripture and the life of Jesus become the primary sexual health educator for our children rather than the pornography industry? I believe this is possible in our lifetime. I pray you will join me.
The Author
Rev. Dr. Glen Maiden is a 40-year pastor and sexual health educator serving interdenominational Bible believing churches. Dr. Glen planted a church in the Pine Street Drug Corridor of western Michigan, pastoring and counseling addicts and trauma survivors for 12 years. He studied Bible, Greek, and Hebrew at Asbury University, ground zero for the 1971 and 2023 revivals. Glen received a Master of Theological Studies with dual majors in New Testament and Christian Education from Grand Rapids Theological Seminary. He completed a Doctor of Ministry at Western Theological Seminary in Holland, Michigan, focusing on the treatment of addiction and trauma in the church. Glen earned a PhD in Clinical Sexology from the International Institute of Clinical Sexology in Miami, Florida. This doctoral project focused on the Book of Genesis as an age-appropriate sexual health primer for faith-based families. He holds certifications in sex addiction and multi-addiction therapy through the International Institute of Trauma and Addiction Professionals. Glen is a board-certified Christian Sex Therapist through the Therapist Certification Association, and is a certified Forest Therapy Guide by the Association of Nature and Forest Therapy. Dr. Glen has full Washington State Department of Health licensure as a Mental Health Counselor.
Jesus and the Book of Genesis on Health and Safety for Children
At that time, the disciples came to Jesus and asked, “Who, then, is the greatest in the kingdom of heaven?”He called a little child to him and placed the child among them. And he said: “Truly I tell you, unless you change and become like little children, you will never enter the kingdom of heaven.
Between the ages of 0-5, children neurologically wire to form attachments, express emotions, and interact with others. This wiring sprouts 1million new connections a second, 60 million a minute, or 86.4 trillion new connections a day. How humans connect relationally and affectionately begins in the first five years. Based on parental care, these styles of connecting shape the brain, forming the neural architecture for future romantic relationships. During this developmental stage, children can be taught healthy affection, that God created the human body without shame, and anatomically correct terminology.
One barrier to communicating sexual health and safety content:_____________________
Treating Shutdown: ______________ shame for both parents and the child.
Teaching Health and Safety to Children Ages 1-5
Health Terms in Genesis 1-5
1-2. Be Fruitful and _____________, pah-RAH rah-BAH (Gen 1:22) Strong, h6509 and h7235
3H. Parental Affection, dah-BACH (Gen 2:24) Strong, h1692
4H._______________, yah-DAH (Gen 4:1) Strong, h3045
Reproductive Terms Genesis 1-5
39H. Ontological______________, Genital Tissue, bah-SAR (Gen 2:24) Strong, h1320
40H. Naked, ah-ROME and ahr-VAH (Gen 2:25 and Gen 9:22) Strong, h6174 and Strong, h6172
41H. Seed,_____________, zeh-RAH (Gen 1:11) Strong, h2232
43. Conception, Childbirth, heh-ray-YOWN (Gen 3:16) Strong, h2032
46H._____________________, YEH-led (Gen 3:16) Strong, h3205
Unhealthy Sexuality Terms Genesis 1-5
Z _ _ _
Teaching and Learning Using Nature Immersion: The Creation Walk
Pine Cones:
Moss:
Mushrooms:
Animals: Fish, Frogs, Squirrels
Sexual Health Positive Terms in Genesis 6-11
Children between the ages of 6 and 11 show remarkable development in spiritual, physical, cognitive, social, and emotional areas, becoming more coordinated and active while developing logical thinking and problem-solving skills. 18 months after a child needs deodorant for body odor, they will most likely go through puberty. They increasingly rely on peer relationships, learn to understand others’ perspectives, and develop a greater sense of spirituality and morality. The average age of child sexual abuse and first-time use of pornography is 9 years of age. It is essential that children understand appropriate boundaries for touch before this era with internet safety protocols. The Noah and the Ark snapshot can be helpful to teach both the redemption of God and protect children from abuse.
5H.________________, buh-REETH (Gen 6:18) Strong, h1285
But I will establish my covenant (buh-REETH) with you, and you will enter the ark—you and your sons and your wife and your sons’ wives with you.
5G. Covenant, dia-THEY-kay (Mat 26:28) Strong, g1242
This is my blood of the covenant (dia-THEY-kay), which is poured out for many for the forgiveness of sins.
6-7. _____________ Unhealthy Sexuality, kah-SAH ahr-VAH (Gen 9:23) h3680 and h6172
But Shem and Japheth took a garment and laid it across their shoulders; then they walked in backward and covered (kah-SAH) their father’s naked body (ahr-VAH). Their faces were turned the other way so that they would not see their father naked.
Unhealthy Sexuality Terms
64H. Sexual Safety ____________, chah-LAWL (Gen 6:1) Strong, h2490
When human beings began (chah-LAWL, sexual safety decline) to increase in number on the earth and daughters were born to them,
64G. Sexual Safety Decline, bah-DEH-loog-ma (Mat 24:15) Strong, g946
“So when you see standing in the holy place ‘the abomination that causes desolation, (bah-DEH-loog-ma)’ spoken of through the prophet Daniel—let the reader understand—
“His armed forces will rise up to desecrate (chah-LAWL) the temple fortress and will abolish the daily sacrifice. Then they will set up the abomination that causes desolation.
65. Coercive Sexual Intercourse, BO (Gen 6:4) Strong, h935
The Nephilim were on the earth in those days—and also afterward—when the sons of God went (BO) to the daughters of humans and had children by them. They were the heroes of old, men of renown.
66. Sexual Nihilism, Evil, RA (Gen 6:5) Strong, h7451
The LORD saw how great the wickedness (RA) of the human race had become on the earth, and that every inclination of the thoughts of the human heart was only evil (RA) all the time.
Teaching and Learning Using Nature Immersion: The Creation Walk
In the forest or on the beach, can you make a twig raft and place created beings on the “ark”? Tell the story of how the world became unhealthy and humans were hurting each other? God saved Noah’s family with the animals. Then can you link the intoxication of Noah with unhealthy sexuality and inappropriate touching? Perhaps, you can help your children with boundaries about touching the private parts of others, specifically family members? You may use the video of Tubseday, the Native American girl, to define outside parts, inside parts, and private parts.
Click on this link to view Tubseday (TUBE-seh-day), The Native American girl, teaching children about consent.
The making of a raft with created beings and water play can assist to decrease anxiety for a child so she can hear the boundaries of “not touching the private parts” of family members. If the conversation becomes awkward, resume the water play.
Click on the link below to view how to make a stick raft.
Health and Safety for Children Ages 12-18
Genesis 12-50
Adolescents aged 12-18 experience the greatest sexual wiring in life. Testosterone and estrogen neuropathways contribute to the most powerful network in the human body, the sexual system. This wiring impacts spiritual, cognitive, social, and physical domains. Much of the wiring of adolescence is called pruning, disconnecting wiring no longer used from childhood. Key traits include the ability to think about their own spirituality, long-term goals, increased self-consciousness, emotional and sexual regulation. This period involves forming a personal spiritual identity and navigating a shift in priorities from family to God and peers. Benevolent Creator has shaped our children to begin “leaving their parents and cleaving” to a lifetime partner”.
5 Neuropathways of the Sexual System
Prefrontal Cortex: Spirituality, reason, compassion, awareness, regulation
Dopamine: Attraction, fear, repulsion, and reward networks
Oxytocin/Vasopressin: Bonding, and long term relationship networks
Hormone:Testosterone and Estrogen
Adrenaline: Orgasm and ejaculatory inevitability
Health Positive Terms
7H. Bridegroom, chah-THAWN (Gen 19:12) Strong, h2860
The two men said to Lot, “Do you have anyone else here—sons-in-law (chah-THAWN), sons or daughters, or anyone else in the city who belongs to you? Get them out of here,
8. Genital Sexual Intercourse, Kah-RAV (Gen 20:4) Strong, h7126
Now Abimelek had not gone near (kah-RAV) her, so he said, “Lord, will you destroy an innocent nation?
9H.Virgin, buh-TWO-lah (Gen 24:16) Strong, h1330
The woman was very beautiful, a virgin (buh-TWO-lah); no man had ever slept (yah-DAH, sexual intimacy) with her. She went down to the spring, filled her jar and came up again.
9G. Virgin, par-THEN-os (Mat 1:23) Strong, g3933
“The virgin (par-THEN-os) will conceive and give birth to a son, and they will call him Immanuel” (which means “God with us”).
10. Fall in Love, Lover, ah-HAWV (Gen 24:67) Strong, h157
Isaac brought her into the tent of his mother Sarah, and he married Rebekah. So she became his wife, and he loved (ah-HAWV) her; and Isaac was comforted after his mother’s death.
11. ______________ to Intercourse, yih-TSACH (Gen 26:8) Strong, h6711
When Isaac had been there a long time, Abimelek, king of the Philistines, looked down from a window and saw Isaac (yih-TSACH) caressing (yih-TSACH) his wife Rebekah.
12H. Kiss, nah-SHAWK (Gen 27:26) Strong, h5401
Then his father Isaac said to him, “Come here, my son, and kiss (nah-SHAWK) me.”
13. Mandrakes, doo-DAI: (Gen 30:14) Strong, h1736
During wheat harvest, Reuben went out into the fields and found some mandrakes (doo-DAI) plants, which he brought to his mother Leah. Rachel said to Leah, “Please give me some of your son’s mandrakes (doo-DAI).” But she said to her, “Wasn’t it enough that you took away my husband? Will you take my son’s mandrakes (doo-DAI) too?” “Very well,” Rachel said, “he can sleep with you tonight in return for your son’s mandrakes (doo-DAI).” So when Jacob came in from the fields that evening, Leah went out to meet him. “You must sleep with me,” she said. “I have hired you with my son’s mandrakes (doo-DAI).” So he slept with her that night. God listened to Leah, and she became pregnant and bore Jacob a fifth son.
14. Fall in Love, chah-SHAWK (Gen 34:8) Strong, h2836
But Hamor said to them, “My son Shechem has his heart set on (chah-SHAWK) your daughter. Please give her to him as his wife.
15. ___________/Intersex Traits, sah-REECE (Gen 37:36) Strong, h5631, g2135
Meanwhile, the Midianites sold Joseph in Egypt to Potiphar, one of Pharaoh’s officials (sah-REECE, eunuch), the captain of the guard.
Reproductive Terms Genesis 12-50
49H. Infertile, ah-KAR (Gen 11:30) Strong, h6135
Now Sarai was childless (ah-KAR) because she was not able to conceive.
50H.______________, MOOL (Gen 17:10) Strong, h4135
This is my covenant with you and your descendants after you, the covenant you are to keep: Every male among you shall be circumcised (MOOL).
53. Midwife, YEH-led (Gen 35:17) Strong, h3205
And as she was having great difficulty in childbirth, the midwife (YEH-led) said to her, “Don’t despair, for you have another son.”
54. Breast, SHAWD (Gen 49:25) Strong, h7699
…because of your father’s God, who helps you, because of the Almighty, who blesses you with blessings of the skies above, blessings of the deep springs below, blessings of the breast (SHAWD) and womb.
55._______________, ahr-LAH (Gen 17:11) Strong, h6190
You are to undergo circumcision (in the flesh (bah-SAR) of your foreskin (ahr-LAH), and it will be the sign of the covenant between me and you.
56. Menstruation: The Way of___________, DEH-rek nah-SHEEM (Gen 31:35) Strong, h1870 and h802
Rachel said to her father, “Don’t be angry, my lord, that I cannot stand up in your presence; I’m having my period (DEH-rek nah-SHEEM).” So he searched but could not find the household gods.
57. Coitus Interruptus, birth control, shah-CHAWT (Gen 38:9) Strong, h7843
But Onan knew that the child would not be his; so whenever he slept with his brother’s wife, he spilled (shah-CHAWT) his semen on the ground to keep from providing offspring for his brother.
Unhealthy Sexuality Terms
Genesis 12-50
67. Sexually Transmitted _______________, neh-GAH (Gen 12:17) Strong, h5060
But the LORD inflicted serious diseases (neh-GAH) on Pharaoh and his household because of Abram’s wife Sarai.
68. Sodom, (Gen 13:13) Strong, h5467
Now the people of Sodom were wicked and were sinning greatly against the LORD.
69. ________________ Intercourse, shah-CAWV (Gen 19:32) Strong, h7901
Let’s get our father to drink wine and then sleep (shah-CAWV) with him and preserve our family line through our father.”
70-71. Rape, shah-KAWV ah-NAH (Gen 34:2) Strong, h7901 and h6031
When Shechem son of Hamor the Hivite, the ruler of that area, saw her, he took her and raped (shah-KAWV ah-NAH) her.
72H. Sacred or Secular Sex_______________, zah-NAH (Gen 34:31) Strong, h2181
But they replied, “Should he have treated our sister like a prostitute (zah-NAH, sex trafficked female)?”
72G. Sacred Sex Trafficking, par-NAY-ah (Mat 5:32) Strong, g4202, g4203, g4204, g4205
But I tell you that anyone who divorces his wife, except for sexual immorality (par-NAY-ah, sex trafficking), makes her the victim of adultery, and anyone who marries a divorced woman commits adultery.
73. Sacred Sex Trafficked Female and Sacred Sex Trafficked Male, kah-day-SHAW, kah-DEISH (Gen 38:21) Strong, h6948 and h6945
He asked the men who lived there, “Where is the shrine prostitute (kah-day-SHAW, sacred sex trafficked female )who was beside the road at Enaim?” “There hasn’t been any shrine prostitute (kah-day-SHAW, sacred sex trafficked female) here,” they said.
So he went back to Judah and said, “I didn’t find her. Besides, the men who lived there said, ‘There hasn’t been any shrine prostitute (kah-day-SHAW, sacred sex trafficked female) here.’ ”
Teaching Children Ages 12-18
Sexual Neutrality without Negativity
Joseph and Potiphar’s Wife
What do we teach our beautiful adolescents about health and safety during the most profound sexual wiring of their lives? The main focus of this era removes barriers to educating our children about sexuality. We can do this by using the Genesis 12-50 health and safety content. The specific application piece is called, sexual neutrality without sex negativity.
Sexual neutrality is a state of health and wholeness without intercourse or sex negativity. Jesus modeled this great truth.
The foundation of our work relies on the person and work of Jesus based on Scripture. Jesus practiced sexual neutrality with his first-century followers. At the same time, Jesus was single and celibate, he affirmed the Gospel of Health and Safety in Genesis.
Matthew 19:4-6
“Haven’t you read,” he replied, “that at the beginning the Creator made them ‘male and female,’and said, ‘For this reason a man will leave his father and mother and be united (Sexual Connection, kah-LA-oh, Strong, g2853) to his wife, and the two will become one flesh (Genital Tissue, The Human Body, SARKS, Strong, g4561).’ So they are no longer two, but one flesh (Strong, g4561). Therefore, what God has joined (yoke together, Strong, g4801) together, let no one separate.”
Jesus quotes the Book of Genesis using sexual-health positive terms. Please see the Biblical Index for a fuller treatment. (3H and 3G, 39H and 39G)
Christ affirmed the marriage covenant, spoke positively about sexual intercourse as ontological oneness and at the same time practiced sexual neutrality with the men and women who followed him. His first miracle was performed while celebrating the image of God in marriage at Cana of Galilee. (John 2) Without condemnation, Jesus, the author of human sexuality, educated the early church on health and safety. The teachings of Christ changed history. (Matthew 5-7, John 4, and John 7-8)
Then Jesus speaks to sexual neutrality in Matthew 19.
The disciples said to him, “If this is the situation between a husband and wife, it is better not to marry.”
Jesus replied, “Not everyone can accept this word, but only those to whom it has been given. For there are eunuchs who were born that way, and there are eunuchs who have been made eunuchs by others—and there are those who choose to live like eunuchs for the sake of the kingdom of heaven. The one who can accept this should accept it.”
Then people brought little children to Jesus for him to place his hands on them and pray for them. But the disciples rebuked them. (Matthew 19:10-13)
After Jesus affirms the sexual health positive message of Genesis, he states, “Not everyone can accept this word, but only to whom it has been given…there are those who choose to live like eunuchs (without genital sexual intercourse) for the sake of the kingdom of heaven. The one who can accept this should accept it.”
Christ casts a vision of intimacy with God and one another. First, Jesus affirms sexual intimacy in the marriage covenant with God. Second, he states that sexual neutrality for the sake of the Kingdom of heaven/God is an acceptable practice as well. Both states are founded on the awareness to “see” God and the people we love. Many are called by God to prepare the bride of Christ for the King without intercourse or abuse. Perhaps this may be the teaching point for our adolescents? In this season before covenant marriage, could the calling of our children be the intimacy of sexual neutrality? Our focus in adolescence then becomes the teaching of the 7 intimacies of Genesis 1-4: the spirituality of beauty, self-regulation, healthy pleasure, compassionate presence, relational wholeness, and sexual intimacy within lifetime covenant. Can this be communicated without sex negativity?
Finally, Jesus closes this section by once again elevating the value of children, “Then people brought little children to Jesus for him to place his hands on them and pray for them.” (Matthew 19:13)
The primary sexual neuro pathway is the prefrontal cortex (PFC). Sexual neutrality proposes that an adolescent can have sexual sensations, including attraction and desire, without genital sexual intercourse. The PFC can be non-condemning of sexual feelings, and at the same time, compassionate for others, and aware that intimacy, not intercourse, is the greatest value in life. For the adolescent, sexual feelings reflect the image of God, and intimacy with God and others can be a Christian’s greatest passion. Teaching our children sexual neutrality without negativity as opposed to immediate gratification may be one of the greatest gifts we give them.
The snap shot of Joseph in Egypt is one example of sexual neutrality in the Bible. Joseph displays a connection with God that allows him to choose intimacy rather than immediacy of intercourse.
Joseph, single and celibate, faces the greatest sexual challenge of his young adulthood…seduction by his employer’s wife. Potiphar’s unnamed marriage partner pursues Joseph for taboo adulterous sex. Joseph resists the advances of the executioner’s wife. In this Scriptural piece, note that the word for intercourse is not the sexual intimacy term of Genesis 4:1, yah-DAH, but rather shah-KAWV which always means unhealthy coercive-sex in Genesis.
After a while his master’s wife took notice of Joseph and said, “Come to bed (shah-KAWV) with me.” But he refused. “With me in charge,” he told her, “my master does not concern himself with anything in the house; and everything he owns he has entrusted to my care. No one is greater in this house than I am. My master has withheld nothing from me except you, because you are his wife. How then could I do such a wicked (RA, sexual nihilism) thing and sin against God.” (Genesis 39:7-9)
After serial sexual harassment, the boss’s wife attempts to rape Joseph in a scene of erotic rage. He flees, leaving his coat as circumstantial evidence. Potiphar, executioner for the king, commutes the death sentence and imprisons the falsely accused Joseph. The text states that, “while Joseph was in prison, the Lord was with him; he showed him kindness and granted him favor in the eyes of the prison warden” (Genesis 39:20-21).
Joseph regulated sexual neural pathways with intimacy. He affirmed the trust of his employer, and appealed to intimacy with God. The snapshot transitions to the compassionate presence of God with Joseph in prison. He regulated sexual sensations with gratitude for his employer, and intimacy with God, both PFC functions. Some neuroscientists agree with the ability of the PFC to regulate. Please see the Key Vocabulary definition for “Sexual Neutrality”.
“Neuroscientists like Schore (1999), have reflected on the ability of PFC to regulate affect and sexual neural pathways. This sexual neutrality through PFC regulation can be seen in the Joseph sexual harassment snapshot. The PFC regulatory mechanism Joseph accessed appears to be spiritual intimacy with God and empathy for his employer, Potiphar.”-Glen Maiden
Now, let’s look at how we can apply this to the children we love.
There are 7 intimacies in Genesis 1-4. Rather than sex negative conversations with our children, it is possible to educate them about intimacy with God and one another without intercourse in healthy sexual health-positive ways.
Nature Immersion: The Creation Walk is the most beautiful practice I have ever known to connect with the Creator God and teach children about intimacy with Christ in nature. What this means is that as parents we can focus on the Spirit in nature’s beauty, regulation of sexual neuro pathways, healthy pleasure, compassionate presence, relational wholeness with reconcilition, and sexual neutrality as preparation for intercourse in covenantal marriage. Following is an example of the Nature Immersion: Creation Walk in nature.
Spirit: What do you notice about the wind? On your skin? Beneath your clothes?As you breathe in, what do you smell? What taste do you notice in your mouth?
Gen 1:2 Now the earth was formless and empty, darkness was over the surface of the deep, and the Spirit of God was hovering over the waters.
Beauty: What light do you see far away? What light do you notice nearest you?
Gen 1:3 And God said, “Let there be light,” and there was light.
Pleasure: Take pleasure in a created being around you. What is the texture and smell?
Gen 2:8 Now the LORD God had planted a garden in the east, in Eden (Pleasure); and there he put the man he had formed.
Rest: What do you see moving furthest from you? What do you notice moving nearest you? What do you sense about your body? What do you notice about the tightness in your body? Do you sense your feet touching the ground? Do you feel gravity? What do you notice about the alignment of your hips, your spine, your neck?
Gen 2:2 By the seventh day God had finished the work he had been doing; so on the seventh day he rested from all his work.
Compassionate Presence: If a benevolent God made nature for you by His Word, what message do you notice He might be speaking to you personally?
Gen 2:22 Then the LORD God made a woman from the rib he had taken out of the man, and he brought her to the man.
Reconciliation: What do you notice about connection with the Creation? Do you sense wholeness and reconciliation?
Gen 3:21 The LORD God made garments of skin for Adam and his wife and clothed them.
Creation: Do you see any created beings/non-artificial that touch your heart? What gratitude do you feel for The Creation? Can you collect as many as you want and share at communion?
At the end of the Creation Walk, we receive communion and talk about what we noticed on the Immersion, and what gratitude we see. Can you share the created beings you collected and perhaps make an art project?
Key Vocabulary
Child Development Ages 0-18
Ages 0-5
The first five years are a critical period for child development, characterized by rapid brain growth where up to 90% of brain development occurs by age five. 75% of children die if they do not have good enough care in these years. During this time, children form key neural connections through their experiences, which lay the foundation for future learning, health, and behavior. Key areas of development include brain development, physical and motor skills, and social-emotional and cognitive abilities.
Key developmental areas
Brain Development: The brain develops faster than at any other time in life, forming over one million new neural connections every second. These connections are built through experiences like positive interactions with caregivers and exploring the world through senses. Seeing parents show healthy affection (dah-BACH) can literally shape the brain with trillions of connections for sexual health processing later in life.
Cognitive Development: This area involves learning, problem-solving, and memory. Children develop through identifying objects, following simple directions, and engaging in imaginative play. Learning anatomically accurate words is appropriate and can assist later in reporting abuse.
Spirtual and Social Development: Children learn to form attachments, express emotions, and interact with others. They develop skills like mirroring parents praying, smiling, and eventually learn to play cooperatively, and use words to express feelings. How an adult connects relationally and romantically begins in the first five years of life. Her brain shape can be secure in relationships, preoccupied, or fearful/avoidant. Dismissive means that I want you, but I may push you away. These styles of connecting are formed in the brain before the age of 5 and form the neural architecture of relationships.
Provide a healthy environment where appropriate touch is non-threatening, affection is welcome, and the human body is treated with respect and honor. A child’s experiences during these years are crucial for shaping their future sexual health behaviors.
Engage in positive interactions: Talk, sing, and read to your child the first 5 chapters of Genesis to build connections and encourage language development about essential Biblical themes.
Respond to their needs: Providing warm and dependable adult interactions is vital for building a secure foundation. One aspect of sex addiction in North America is that addicts report they grew up in deprivation households. They were never taught how to care for the image of God in them or show compassion by expressing valid needs.
Encourage play: Play is a primary way children learn and develop social, emotional, and cognitive skills. Using Nature Immersion: The Creation Walk can be an excellent method of teaching children about creation in an enjoyable non-shaming way.
Ages 6-11
Children between the ages of 6 and 11 show significant development in physical, cognitive, social, and emotional areas, becoming more coordinated and active while developing logical thinking and problem-solving skills. 18 months after a child needs deodorant for body odor, they will most likely go through puberty. They increasingly rely on peer relationships, learn to understand others’ perspectives, and develop a greater sense of self and morality. Emotionally, they manage feelings better than in earlier years, although they can still experience jealousy and mood swings. The average age of child sexual abuse is 9 years of age. It is essential children understand appropriate touch and boundaries before age 9.
Physical development
- Motor skills: Greater strength and coordination allow for more complex activities like dancing, playing a musical instrument, or riding a bike. They develop finer motor skills for tasks like tying shoelaces and using tools.
- Physical activity: They have high energy levels and enjoy active play, team sports, and using their bodies for creative expression, like drawing or painting.
Spiritual development
Children can pray and help read Scripture at meals.
- Thinking skills: They move from magical to concrete logical thinking, allowing them to solve problems, understand concepts like time and fractions, and grasp that objects can be categorized. Children can be taught how to regulate their emotions. This is essential foundation for regulating sexual neuro pathways in adolescence.
- Problem-solving and memory: They improve their ability to focus, organize, and plan ahead. They can also remember information for longer periods and use strategies to help them learn.
- Language: Their speech is nearly adult-level, and they can read and understand more complex sentences. They read for pleasure and to learn new things.
- Curiosity and questioning: They ask “why and where do babies come from”, question things they don’t understand, and seek justifications for how things are. This is an excellent time to talk through the non-shaming images and terms of Genesis 1-5. Reading through the Noah snap shot on sexual safety is also appropriate.
Social development
- Friendships: Friends become increasingly important, and they may have several close friends, often playing with same-gender groups.
- Social skills: They learn to cooperate and share, but also experience jealousy. They become more aware of social group dynamics and may use language to include or exclude others.
- Role models: They admire and imitate older youth and adults, sometimes questioning authority as they get older.
Emotional development
- Self-Regulation: They are better at managing emotions like anger than before, though temper tantrums can still occur. Teaching children how to regulate their anxiety with emotions can assist in regulating sexual neural pathways during puberty.
- Empathy: They develop a stronger sense of empathy and can better understand and consider the feelings of others. Introd
- Decreasing Shame: They are developing a sense of body image and can be sensitive about being compared to peers. When sexual health and safety are spoken of, it is important to do so without shame.
- Values: They begin to develop their own set of sexual health values and a personal worldview, understanding concepts like fairness and sexual mores.
Ages 12-18
Adolescents aged 12-18 experience the most profound sexual system wiring of their lives. Testosterone, estrogen, dopamine, peptides, and adrenaline neuropathways form the most powerful network in the human body. This wiring impacts cognitive, spiritual, and physical domains, including sexual behaviors, abstract thinking, a stronger reliance on peer groups, and physical maturation through puberty. Key traits include the ability to think about spirituality and long-term goals, increased self-consciousness with emotional and sexual regulation, and physical changes like growth and the development of secondary sexual characteristics. This period involves forming a personal spiritual identity and navigating a shift in priorities from family to peers. God has shaped our children to begin “leaving their parents and cleaving to a lifetime partner”.
Cognitive development
- Abstract thinking: The ability to think about abstract concepts, such as spirituality, the Bible, philosophy, politics, and sexuality, develops significantly.
- Long-term planning: Adolescents begin to set long-term goals and think about their future.
- Reasoning and debate: They can reason from general principles and start to form their own ideas, question authority, and debate different points of view.
- Self-awareness: They become more aware of their own thought processes and become more self-conscious.
Social and emotional development
- Independence: A strong drive for independence emerges, with adolescents often turning to friends for support rather than parents.
- Peer relationships: Fitting in with a chosen peer group becomes a major focus, influencing spiritual values, interests, sexuality, and appearance.
- Identity formation: They begin to form their own spiritual identity, which can involve questioning old values and exploring new roles and interests.
- Emotional swings: They may experience strong emotional swings, increased self-consciousness, and moodiness due to hormonal changes and identity struggles.
Physical development
- Puberty: Boys and girls go through puberty, which involves the development of secondary sexual characteristics like pubic and underarm hair, with significant growth. This is the age when intersex traits may appear.
- Growth spurts: A rapid increase in height and weight is common during this stage.
- Body image: Physical attractiveness becomes very important, and adolescents are often more self-conscious about their changing bodies.
- Hormonal changes: Hormonal fluctuations can lead to physical changes like acne, as well as emotional outbursts and mood swings.
Coitus Interruptus, birth control: Coitus interruptus, or the withdrawal birth control method, is a form of contraception where the male partner withdraws before ejaculatory inevitability to prevent sperm from entering the vagina. It is free and always available, with no associated health risks or side effects. However, coitus interruptus is considered one of the least effective methods of birth control. Pre-ejaculatory fluid may contain sperm. This form of birth control also does not protect against sexually transmitted infections (STIs).
Effectiveness
- High failure rate: Coitus interruptus has a high failure rate, even with “typical use,” which includes accidental or incorrect use.
- “Perfect use” vs. “typical use”: A large-scale study in England and Scotland found a typical use failure rate of 6.7 per 100 woman-years of use, while perfect use rates are significantly better but still carry risks.
- Pre-ejaculatory fluid: Pre-ejaculatory fluid can contain sperm, and this fluid can be released before ejaculation, potentially leading to pregnancy.
Eunuchism and Intersexuality: Genesis Chapter 39 features the term eunuch for the first time in the Bible. Bitter brothers sell Joseph into slavery to Ishmaelite investors. The descendants of Ishmael trafficked Joseph to Potiphar, an elite royal military captain. Described in two ways, Potiphar is the guardian, SAR, of Pharaoh and identified as a eunuch, sah-REECE (Genesis 37:26, Strong, h5631, g2135). The reader may note that the terms guardian, SAR, and eunuch, sah-REECE , sound similar but have different spellings.
Eunuchs have been employed by royalty for millennia to oversee harems. The eunuch was unable to impregnate royal consorts because of either intersex traits at birth or surgical removal of genitalia. Eunuchism includes those born with intersex traits incapable of heterosexual intercourse. Clinicians use the term intersex for variations in sexually reproducing organisms. Intersex births feature characteristics between typical males and typical females. Intersex genitals differ in numerous ways with wide diversity. Many intersexual traits never appear outwardly. Some variations present when the intersex child reaches puberty, and still others at adulthood. Again, some intersexual traits never appear physically (Fausto-Sterling, 2000).
Fausto-Sterling (2000) examined clinical intersex data from 1955 to 1999. She stated, “We surveyed the medical literature from 1955 to the present for studies of the frequency of deviation from the ideal male or female. We conclude that this frequency may be as high as 2% of live births” (pp. 151–166). Genetics governing growth and development cause most intersex variations. Hormones underlie the most frequent variations among the intersexual population. Numerous eunuch snapshots appear in both the Old and New Testament records. The Hebrew Bible (WLC) uses the terms sah-REECE and eunuch in New Testament Greek (Strong, H5631, G2135).
Royalty concerned for DNA purity of heirs chose staff members incapable of reproduction to oversee harems. The eunuch lacked the ability for genital sexual intercourse with the king’s wives whether by intersexual traits or surgical castration. The sah-REECE served as a nonthreatening caregiver, ensuring royal blood lines with unbroken succession to the throne.
The fifth century AD Etymologicon by Orion of Thebes cites an early definition for the eunuch: guarding the bed and being deprived of male to female sexual intercourse.
The historian Lucian states two criteria for vetting a eunuch: physical inspection of genitalia while examining the candidate during a sexual act with females. This vetting process proved the sah-REECE/eunuch posed no threat to infiltrate royal DNA (Sturz, p. 58).
Many cultures record surgical castration to prevent sexual intercourse with royal consorts. Vietnamese eunuchism removed both testicles and penis of male staff members to ensure the progeny of the Emperor. The duties of Vietnamese eunuchs primarily maintained the harem for sexual intercourse with the Emperor (Taylor, 2013).
The Biblical Hebrew word for eunuch is sah-REECE, (Strong, H5631). Potiphar in the Joseph snapshot circa 12th Dynasty BCE is called Pharaoh’s sah-REECE (BLB, Genesis 37:36, Strong, H5631). Daniel of the Babylonian Exile 8th century BCE served under a sah-REECE and is assumed to be part of the eunuch culture to secure the purity of heir making. The Book of Isaiah 56:1–5 uses the term sah-REECE in a blessing piece.
And let no eunuch (sah-REECE) complain,
“I am only a dry tree.”
For this is what the Lord says:
“To the eunuchs (sah-REECE) who keep my Sabbaths,
who choose what pleases me
and hold fast to my covenant—
to them I will give within my temple and its walls
a memorial and a name
better than sons and daughters;
I will give them an everlasting name
that will endure forever.
Other eunuchs are named specifically, such as, Hegai and Shashgaz, Hatach, Harbonah, Bigthan, and Teresh. The sarisim, the plural of sah-REECE, were potential threats to impregnate the harem of the king and therefore chosen because of the inability for intercourse with royalty.
The New Testament uses the term eunuch in two narratives, Mathew 19 and Acts 8. Jesus speaks of eunuchs in Matthew 19 stating that some eunuchs are born, some eunuchs are made (surgically), and others choose to be eunuchs (Matthew 19:1–12).
Jesus replied, “Not everyone can accept this word, but only those to whom it has been given. For there are eunuchs who were born that way, and there are eunuchs who have been made eunuchs by others—and there are those who choose to live like eunuchs for the sake of the kingdom of heaven. The one who can accept this should accept it.” (Matthew 19:1–12)
The eunuchs Jesus described may include those who were born with intersex variations and could not have heterosexual genital sexual intercourse. The second snapshot appears in Acts 8:26–39. In this piece the apostle Phillip interprets Isaiah 53 for an, “ Ethiopian eunuch, an important official in charge of all the treasury of the Kandake which means ‘queen of the Ethiopians.’” (Acts 8:27) The reader can note that the Ethiopian eunuch served a royal consort, a queen. In addition the term eunuch separates from the words, an important official in charge. This supports the context of the sah-REECE of the Old Testament who guards the harem of the king.
Intersex-eunuch passages in Matthew 19 and perhaps Acts 8 appear without condemnation as well. The Acts snapshot with the Ethiopian eunuch and Phillip communicates honor and dignity.
Euphemism: The term euphemism is composed of two Greek words, eu meaning well and pheme, meaning to speak. Euphemisms decrease trauma shutdown by using gentle, indirect language to reframe sensitive matters. This can help families to be more comfortable discussing delicate topics. The technique, sometimes called “shame attenuation,” allows for a less traumatic conversation of direct sexual content. One example can be seen in Biblical sexual health narratives using the phrase, “uncovering the nakedness of”. Rather than using the phrase, “sexual contact between family members,” the writer of Genesis uses a softer nuance, perhaps for younger ears. (Leviticus 18 and Deuteronomy 23) This may help families decrease potential shame in these conversations and increase learning.
How euphemisms decrease shame
- Softens harsh realities: Euphemisms replace blunt words with gentler ones. For example, saying someone “passed away” instead of “died” reduces the immediate shock and discomfort.
- Encourages truthfulness: By creating a less confrontational atmosphere, euphemisms can encourage a hesitant person to share the truth, such as using “missed work unexpectedly” instead of “called in sick” to ask about absenteeism. In the same way “uncover the nakedness of” is a euphemism lowering shame to prevent sexual contact within families.
You must not do as they do in Egypt (incest), where you used to live, and you must not do as they do in the land of Canaan, where I am bringing you. Do not follow their practices.
“ ‘No one is to approach any close relative to have sexual relations (uncover the nakedness of). I am the LORD.
Mandrakes: In the Bible, mandrakes are an anesthetic-hallucinogenic plant associated with fertility featured in the story of Jacob’s wives, Rachel and Leah. Rachel, sought a solution to her infertility by making a sex for drugs deal with her sister Leah. Reuben, Leah’s son, harvested mandrakes, an over-the-counter aphrodesiac and infertility remedy. Rachel coerced Jacob to sleep with Leah in exchange for the mandrakes. Ironically, the drug failed, but instead Leah became pregnant with her fifth son, Issachar. The mandrake is also mentioned in the Song of Solomon for its fragrant fruit, suggesting a romantic and intimate setting.
Mandrakes possess hallucinogenic properties due to potent tropane alkaloids such as scopolamine, atropine, and hyoscyamine, which can induce delirium and hallucinations. The plant is also highly toxic, and its use can be very dangerous.
Effects and Dangers
- Hallucinogenic & Deliriant: Mandrake can cause vivid hallucinations and a state of delirium, which in large doses may lead to madness.
- Narcotic & Sedative: Historically, it was used as an anesthetic for surgery in ancient times because it induces a state of unconsciousness and indifference to pain.
- Highly Poisonous: All parts of the Mandragora plant are poisonous. The concentration of alkaloids varies between individual plants, making safe dosing nearly impossible and accidental poisoning a significant risk.
- Physical Symptoms of Poisoning: Ingestion can lead to severe symptoms including blurred vision, dilated pupils, dry mouth, difficulty urinating, dizziness, headache, rapid heart rate (tachycardia), and vomiting.
- Risk of Death: In sufficient quantities, the plant can cause respiratory arrest, coma, and death due to its anticholinergic properties.
Masturbation Theology:The word masturbation did not appear in print until the 17th century AD. The Latin word masturbation means “destruction by the hand” (Etymologygeek, 2021; Etymonline, 2021). Theologians began to connect the term masturbation to Onan’s act and the death sentence for birth control, coitus interruptus. The context of the passage, however, appears to be another lesson reinforcing the evil of coercive sexuality and abuse. The Onan incident is not a genital self-stimulation narrative. In addition, there exists no support from other Biblical passages that God killed Onan for coitus interruptus. The judgment against Er and Onan has clear textual support on the basis of coercive sexuality and or violent abuse. No Biblical evidence supports the death sentence for coitus interruptus or genital self-stimulation. The 17th century word masturbation does not appear in or reflect the authoritative text of the Bible anywhere.
The translation method this work uses is called Biblical theology. This time-tested process uses Scripture to interpret Scripture. When a passage requires clarity, other relevant texts are compared for meaning. Biblical theology can be thought of as a scientific method for studying sacred literature with integrity. The tension in this passage focuses on the interpretation that God put Onan to death because he practiced birth control during intercourse through coitus interruptus. Therefore according to many authors any transmission of semen except for procreation is condemned by God.
The circumstance of Onan’s death appears four times in the Old Testament (Genesis 38:9–10; 46:12; Numbers 26:19; 1 Chronicles 2:3). Two of the passages state that Onan simply died (Genesis 46:12; Numbers 26:19). The Hebrew verb form used in these two passages is called the Qal. This verb form shows that God did not act to end Onan’s life. The text of Genesis 38:10 states that someone or something killed Onan. The final Onan passage of 1 Chronicles 2:3 mentions Onan but does not state that the Lord killed him. Rather, Er his brother was terminated by God. The author of Chronicles omits Onan from the consequences of direct judgement by God. The four texts agree that God did not kill Onan due to birth control.
The one verse in question does not clearly state that Onan’s death was caused by God. The verse literally says in the Hebrew language, “He (Onan) did evil in the eyes of the Lord, and the thing which he did, killed him, even him.” Hebrew to English translators added “The Lord” as a subject to Verse 10 as the one doing the killing. The misuse of this passage began with the editing of the text by an unknown translator from the Hebrew to English who added “The Lord” as Onan’s executioner. No direct statements in the Bible support God putting Onan to death. All Biblical citations state that God did not terminate Onan because he withdrew before ejaculation.
The energy spent on this verse matters for billions of people who look to the Bible for sexual health education. What the reader will see in the following history of masturbation theology is the threat of divine death sentence for self-stimulation. Specifically, according to numerous religious writers, any sexual arousal or transfer of semen except for conception may bring the same consequences for death as Onan received. One misused verse of Scripture without support from the entirety of Biblical revelation created 3500 years of threat, violence, and sexual shame among people of faith.
The first part of the word masturbation derives from the Latin word, manus, meaning “hand.” The second part of the Latin term, disturbare, means to disturb, demolish, or destroy. Stupere connects to this word, meaning stupid or shameful. The Latin word masturbor then follows the meaning, “I shamefully defile myself, I masturbate.” The word masturbation appears in literature by 1711. First appearing in the 1620s, masturbation preceded the use of the term masturbation, (Etymonline, 2021, Etymologygeek, 2021).
The Evangelical Christian books Every Man’s Battle and Every Women’s Battle reflect thinking on genital self-stimulation from the 1990s. Arterburn (2001), the primary author for these books, reflects the cultural and Evangelical sexual politics of the era. Panic and crisis of the 1980s’ AIDS epidemic may have driven religious and political leaders to teach abstinence in favor of sexual health. Arterburn reflected, “Masturbation is a symptom of uncontrolled eyes and free racing thoughts” (Arterburn, p. 110). He counseled that masturbation ceases when a man can “bounce” his eyes and take his thoughts captive (Arterburn, p. 112). He stated that the only legitimate release from genital tension for a single man is the nocturnal emission. Arterburn did not permit men to masturbate, even though he admits the Bible does not speak to it. Ethridge, Arterburn’s female counterpart and coauthor of Every Woman’s Battle, too instructed her readers not to masturbate. She (2003) stated, “Believe it or not no one ever died from not having an orgasm…once the sin of masturbation does know you by name, it will call, and call and call” (Ethridge p. 40). Is it possible that Ethridge may have implied, “Believe it or not, some have died from an orgasm,” specifically Onan? Ethridge stated that treatment for masturbation is to “starve it to death” (Ethridge, p. 41). Neither Arterburn nor Ethridge believed genital self-stimulation was an acceptable practice, even though both admit the Bible gives no direction on the matter.
The 19th and 20 centuries featured religious and medical practitioners contributing to the conversation of genital self-stimulation. Doctor John Harvey Kellogg of the Battle Creek Corn Flakes fame (February 26, 1852–December 14, 1943) passionately campaigned against genital self-stimulation. Kellogg legitimized his views by using medical language with citations proclaiming, “neither the plague, nor war, nor small pox, nor similar diseases, have produced results so disastrous to humanity as the pernicious habit of onanism,” according to his source Dr. Adam Clarke. Kellogg made strong warnings against masturbation claiming genital self-stimulation could be fatal, “such a victim literally dies by his own hand.” Kellogg believed the “solitary-vice” caused uterine cancer, urinary diseases, nocturnal emissions, impotence, epilepsy, insanity, mental and physical pathologies, and dimness of vision. In Plain Facts for Old and Young, Kellogg warns of the evils of sex perhaps believing sexuality itself to be evil. He crafted treatment plans to cure children from acting out in the “solitary vice”. Kellogg prescribed as means of masturbation prevention: restraining a child’s hands, protecting the genitals with patented cages preventing sexual contact, stitching the foreskin shut with wire, electrical shock, and circumcision without anesthesia. Kellogg himself underwent circumcision at the age of 37 (Kellogg, 1888). Kellogg presented detailed treatment plans to prevent genital self-stimulation.
A remedy which is almost always successful in small boys is circumcision, especially when there is any degree of phimosis. The operation should be performed by a surgeon without administering an anesthetic, as the brief pain attending the operation will have a salutary effect upon the mind, especially if it be connected with the idea of punishment, as it may well be in some cases. The soreness which continues for several weeks interrupts the practice, and if it had not previously become too firmly fixed, it may be forgotten and not resumed. Further, a method of treatment [to prevent masturbation] … and we have employed it with entire satisfaction. It consists in the application of one or more silver sutures in such a way as to prevent erection. The prepuce, or foreskin, is drawn forward over the glans, and the needle to which the wire is attached is passed through from one side to the other. After drawing the wire through, the ends are twisted together, and cut off close. It is now impossible for an erection to occur, and the slight irritation thus produced acts as a most powerful means of overcoming the disposition to resort to the practice. In females, the author has found the application of pure carbolic acid (phenol) to the clitoris an excellent means of allaying the abnormal excitement (pp. 294-296).
In Kellogg’s Ladies’ Guide in Health and Disease for nymphomania, he recommended “Cool baths; the cool enema; a spare diet; the application of blisters and other irritants to the sensitive parts of the sexual organs, the removal of the clitoris and nymphae” (Markel, p. 215).
Swiss physician Samuel-Auguste Tissot published L’Onanisme in 1760, a comprehensive medical treatise on the negative effects of genital self-stimulation to orgasm with ejaculation. Tissot believed that seminal fluid was an “essential oil” and “stimulus.” According to Tissot, the loss of semen in large amounts could cause,
a perceptible reduction of strength, of memory and even of reason; blurred vision, all the nervous disorders, all types of gout and rheumatism, weakening of the organs of generation, blood in the urine, disturbance of the appetite, headaches and a great number of other disorders. (Stolberg, 2000)
In the 17 century, masturbation became synonymous with Onan in Genesis 38. Although different behaviors, coitus interruptus and genital self-stimulation now become one idea (Etymonline, 2021). A 17th-century Puritan law code for the colonies of New Haven, Connecticut outlawed blasphemy, homosexuality, and genital self-stimulation. The consequence for offenders? The death penalty (Lawrence, p. 41).
Before masturbation terminology appeared in the 17th century early Christian church fathers contributed volumes of commentary. Many church authorities taught that genital self-stimulation was a secret sin, injurious, prohibited, and corrupt. In the 14th century AD, Jean Gerson, crafted a confessional manual entitled, On the Confession of Masturbation. Gerson’s manual directs clergy to, “insist that (male) penitents admit to the sin of masturbation, which…was deemed…even more serious sin than raping a nun, incest, or abducting and raping virgins and wives” (Chloe, 2010).
Thomas Aquinas, 1225–1274 AD, scholastic of the Catholic Church authored the Summa
Theologiae or Summa Theologica, The Summary of Theology. “
The “Summa” intended to instruct seminarians and literate church members. In Article 5,
Aquinas argues for the sinfulness of dreams producing nocturnal emissions.
“Objection 1. It would seem that nocturnal pollution is a sin. For the same things are the matter of merit and demerit. Now a man may merit while he sleeps, as was the case with Solomon, who while asleep obtained the gift of wisdom from the Lord“ (1 Samuel 3:5). Therefore a man may demerit while asleep; and thus nocturnal pollution would seem to be a sin“ (Summa Theologica, 2021).
Beginning in the 11th century Pope Leo IX regarded genital self-stimulation as, “unnatural sex, murder, a diabolical practice, and the cause of two-thirds of all diseases and disorders including insanity, neurosis, and neurasthenia” (Patton, 1985).
Epiphanius of Salamis in 375 AD stated that certain Egyptian heretics “exercise genital acts, yet prevent the conceiving of children. Not in order to produce offspring, but to satisfy lust, are they eager for corruption” (Medicine Chest Against Heresies 26:5:2, 375 AD). Lactantius, advisor to Roman Emperor Constantine the Great, in the fourth century AD added, “God gave us eyes not to see and desire pleasure, but to see acts to be performed for the needs of life; so too, the genital [‘generating’] part of the body, as the name itself teaches, has been received by us for no other purpose than the generation of offspring” (Medicine Chest Against Heresies, 6:23:18). Clement of Alexandria in 191 AD stated that, “Because of its divine institution for the propagation of man, the seed is not to be vainly ejaculated, nor is it to be damaged, nor is it to be wasted, “ and, “To have coitus other than to procreate children is to do injury to nature” (The Instructor of Children 2:10:91:2; 2:10:95:3, 375 AD).
Christ does not speak on the matter of genital self-stimulation. Neither New Testament writers nor Old Testament authors comment. Again, the primary Christian authoritative sources and accepted body of sacred literature do not regulate genital self-stimulation. The Old Testament passages connecting to transmission of seminal fluids can be found in the Levitical sexual hygiene code.
When a man has an emission of semen, he must bathe his whole body with water, and he will be unclean till evening. Any clothing or leather that has semen on it must be washed with water, and it will be unclean till evening…When a man has sexual relations with a woman and there is an emission of semen, both of them must bathe with water, and they will be unclean till evening…These are the regulations for a man with a discharge, for anyone made unclean by an emission of semen. (Leviticus 15:16,17,18, 32)
Neither mandate nor commentary exists for genital self-stimulation in the entire Bible. The focus of transmission of fluids in Leviticus falls under the heading of hygiene and in this case sexual health hygiene. There are no death penalties in the Leviticus sexual hygiene code for the transmission of seminal fluids by any means.
Nature Immersion: The Creation Walk- Nature Immersion: The Creation Walk is an evidence-based therapeutic exercise founded on Scripture and the life of Christ.
Nature Immersion reflects a health and wellness initiative called Forest Bathing. Forest Therapy, founded by Amos Clifford, of the Association for Nature and Forest Therapy, is the next generation of this treatment. Nature Immersion builds upon this evidence-based research using Scripture and prayer for faith based participants.
Forest Therapy with its Biblically-based counterpart, Nature Immersion, features an age appropriate gentle wander connecting to the image of God in nature. Participants will find this powerful stress management down regulates anxiety establishing prayer with reflection as transformational Christian disciplines. Studies show neurological effects are not only immediate, but also endure from one to 30 days.
Today, Forest Bathing is embraced as a global disease-prevention phenomenon, with many organizations and practitioners offering guided experiences focusing on polyvagal sensory engagement within natural settings. This movement continues to highlight the importance of spending time in nature as a means to promote health and spiritual wholeness.
Over 2000 years ago, Jesus first modeled prayer and reflection in nature. Christ, baptized in the Jordan river by desert prophet, prayed and relied on Scripture while tested in the wilderness, transfigured on mountain summit, and then surrendered to divine will in an olive grove. Jesus then atoned for humankind’s sin by crucifixion on a tree. After three days, Christ rose from death in a garden for grieving loved ones. Do you see connections to the Genesis Creation and the life of Christ?
Scripture reflects the premier pleasure of God at Creation in the forest of Eden. The final scene in the Book of Revelation restores these same beautiful images to post-apocalypse survivors. The forests of Genesis and Revelation both border crystal waters healing humanity broken by trauma. Life-giving light radiates from the Creator of all things without whom only darkness reigns.
Could nature serve as a “container” for the God of Genesis to transform the human heart? In this place of Eden pleasure healing leaves sprout, nurtured by life-giving waters, birthed in light created from the heart of God. Does it seem intuitive that nature is the place where the Gospel was first declared to humankind?
Though the Bible does not teach that nature is deity, the forest does reflect the image of God. Could the Creator of Genesis and Book of Revelation reconnect the broken places of the heart within nature’s beauty?
The Holy Spirit connects to nature. The Spirit first appears in Genesis 1.1-2. The premier task…bring chaos-darkness to light. The beauty of this scene produces the forests to which is given the first commandment in Scripture, “sprout, grow, reproduce.… (Genesis 1:11)
What if the image of God within nature can assist to teach our children about health and safety? Is it possible to connect to the Spirit of God among healing leaves and forest splendor?
The heavens declare the glory of God; the skies proclaim the work of his hands.
Day after day they pour forth speech; night after night they reveal knowledge.
They have no speech, they use no words; no sound is heard from them.
Yet their voice goes out into all the earth, their words to the ends of the world. (Psalm 19:1-4)
Does the Creation still pour forth the speech of God? Do the works of God in nature continue to speak today without words? Could it be nature is the Bible’s container for the Gospel?
Nature Immersion: The Creation Walk
The Creation Walk is a “container” for sharing the Gospel of Health and Safety to Children. This gentle “wander” connects faith-based parents and children to the God of Creation through His Word. Nature Immersion’s evidence-based techniques lower anxiety allowing the spiritual center of the brain to “come online” providing optimal teaching and learning experience for children.
Rape: Rape is sexual penetration without consent, often by force, coercion, or by taking advantage of an incapacitated person. Modern legal definitions have expanded to include various types of sexual penetration (oral, anal, and vaginal) and the use of objects, and are gender-neutral, recognizing both male and female victims and perpetrators.
Key aspects of the defining rape
- Lack of consent: A person’s consent must be voluntary and can be negated by a lack of capacity to consent due to age, intoxication, or mental/physical incapacity.
- Force or coercion: This includes physical force, threats, or psychological coercion to overcome someone’s will.
- Incapacity: A person is unable to give consent if they are asleep, unconscious, drugged, or otherwise physically or mentally helpless.
- Age of consent: Engaging in sexual activity with someone below the legal age of consent is considered statutory rape, even if the person agrees.
- Broader scope: Updated definitions include various forms of sexual penetration, such as oral and anal sex, and the use of objects, not just penile-vaginal intercourse.
- Gender-neutral: The modern definition includes both male and female victims and perpetrators, which was not always the case in older definitions.
- Forced acts on others: Forcing someone else to penetrate a victim is also considered rape.
Seven Intimacies of Genesis 1-4: The 7 intimacies of Creation are: Spiritual, beauty of the created order, rest, pleasure, compassionate presence, reconciliation, and sexually healthy intimacy. (Genesis 1-4) The insular cortex located in the prefrontal cortex is responsible for intimacy in relationships and associating people, places, things, sights, sounds, and smells. Intimacy is essential to bring a dissociated state to an associated state. We call this associated state, “online”.
Spirit: What do you notice about the wind? On your skin? What do sense about your skin under your clothes?As you breathe in, what do you smell? What taste do you notice in your mouth?
Gen 1:2 Now the earth was formless and empty, darkness was over the surface of the deep, and the Spirit of God was hovering over the waters.
Beauty: What light do you see far away? What light do you notice nearest you?
Gen 1:3 And God said, “Let there be light,” and there was light.
Rest: What do you see moving furthest from you? What do you notice moving nearest you? What do you sense about your body’s motion? What do you notice about the tightness in your body? Do you sense your feet touching the ground? Do you feel gravity’s pull? What do you notice about the alignment of your hips, your spine, your neck?
Gen 2:2 By the seventh day God had finished the work he had been doing; so on the seventh day he rested from all his work.
Pleasure: Take pleasure in a created being around you. What is the texture?
(Please see “created being” in the Key Vocabulary.)
Gen 2:8 Now the LORD God had planted a garden in the east, in Eden (Pleasure); and there he put the man he had formed.
Compassionate Presence: If a benevolent God made nature for you by His Word, what message do you notice He might be speaking to you personally?
Gen 2:22 Then the LORD God made a woman from the rib he had taken out of the man, and he brought her to the man.
Reconciliation: What do you notice about connection with the Creation? Do you sense wholeness and reconciliation? Do you notice any shame in the Creation?
Gen 3:21 The LORD God made garments of skin for Adam and his wife and clothed them (covering their shame).
Creation: Do you see any created beings that touch your heart? Pick up as many as you wish.
Genesis 1:11 Then God said, “Let the land produce vegetation: seed-bearing plants and trees on the land that bear fruit with seed in it, according to their various kinds.” And it was so.
Gen 4:1 Adam made love to his wife Eve, and she became pregnant and gave birth to Cain. She said, “With the help of the LORD I have brought forth a man.”
Sex Trafficking: Sex trafficking is the economically driven enslavery of men, women, and children for sexual gratification. The sex trade formed a major economic piece of ancient Near Eastern culture called, “sexeconomy”. In the Sumerian era 1750 BCE religious actors coerced children, men, and women into places of worship for “sacred sex trafficking”. The Old and New Testaments of the Bible feature extensive trafficking references over 1500 years of authorship. The sacred sex trade devoted food, human sacrifice, and money in places of worship to appease deities and fund institutions. The sex trade of the ancient Near East also involved secular sex workers many of whom were trafficked by slave owners.
Mt. Vesuvius entombed thousands of Pompeii’s residents in a pyroclastic cloud of debris in the first century CE. Thermal ash both buried and preserved the shapes of 1150 bodies and structures with their artwork in the apocalypse. 25 distinct brothels have been excavated in the ancient city of Pompeii’s 10,000-20,000 inhabitants. Inscriptions on buildings and streets reveal penises pointing potential customers to the largest brothel called, “The Wolf Den”. Two stories tall with ten rooms, frescoes featured erotic images and graffiti etched with customer reviews. Small windowless rooms painted with pornographic images offered menus of service with pricing for various forms of intercourse. Pompeii’s brothels prove the existence of the first-century secular sex trade distinct from temple cults.
Sex trade workers were often trafficked slaves or lower income women. 80% of female sex workers’ names inscribed on the Wolf Den’s walls appear to have been trafficked slaves. This means the ancient world consisted of at least two kinds of sex trafficking. The sacred sex trade involved religious institutions with religious worship. The secular sex industry featured brothels like the Wolf Den, distinct from temple cults. Both the religious and secular sex trades shared common ground of trafficking slaves and the very poor. The trade of selling humans founded the sexeconomy of both sacred priests and sex industry entrepreneurs. (Pompittours)
The Bible cites numerous citations for the sexual safety of children. Leviticus prohibits trafficking family members into the sex trade. Leviticus 19:29 commands parents not to traffic their daughters for sex. Tannehil makes the case that trafficking a child was more affordable than paying an expensive marriage dowry. (Note too the use of the trigger term, chaw-LAWL, often connecting a decline in sexual health and safety. Chaw-LAWL first appears in the sexual health decline snap shot of Genesis 6. The underlying reason for annihilation of humankind by flood in Genesis 7-9 is global sexual trauma.) (Gen 6:1; Strong, h2490) The prophets of both Old and New Testaments speak against trafficking boys, girls, and adults.
“ ‘Do not degrade (chaw-LAWL) your daughter by making her a prostitute (zah-NAH, sex traffic), or the land will turn to prostitution (sex trafficking) and be filled with wickedness.
Approximately 1000 years after Moses, the Prophet Joel speaks to the sexeconomy of trafficking children.
They cast lots for my people and traded boys for prostitutes (zah-NAH); they sold girls for wine to drink.
In the first century CE Paul the Apostle and John the scribe of Revelation repeat similar concern.
1Ti 1:10
..for the sexually immoral (POR-nos, male sex traffickers), for those practicing homosexuality, for slave traders (human traffickers) and liars and perjurers—and for whatever else is contrary to the sound doctrine….
Rev 18:11-13
“The merchants of the earth will weep and mourn over her because no one buys their cargoes anymore—…cargoes of cinnamon and spice, of incense, myrrh and frankincense, of wine and olive oil, of fine flour and wheat; cattle and sheep; horses and carriages; and human beings sold as slaves.
The phrase “human beings sold as slaves” literally means, “selling human flesh and the souls of men.”
Trafficking provided a sexeconomy not only for the secular sex trade, but also “substantial part of the temple’s income” (Tannehill, 1980, p. 79). The business of the sacred sex trade provided tremendous profit to religious institutions. The sexeconomy coerced sex workers to perform for more money. One sex worker named Metiche, with the stage name, Clepsydra-stop watch, streamlined length of customer intercourse for greater income. (Tannehill, 1980, p. 100). King Solomon posted the greatest economic growth in Israel’s history. The emperor also introduced the sexeconomy of Ashtoreth, known as Asherah, with its history of sex trafficking. 300 years after Solomon introduced Israel to the sacred sex trade of his wives, King Josiah’s reform removed the quarters for sex trafficked males from the temple in Jerusalem.
1Ki 11:5-8
He (Solomon) followed Ashtoreth the goddess of the Sidonians, and Molek the detestable god of the Ammonites. So Solomon did evil in the eyes of the LORD; he did not follow the LORD completely, as David his father had done. On a hill east of Jerusalem, Solomon built a high place for Chemosh the detestable god of Moab, and for Molek the detestable god of the Ammonites. He did the same for all his foreign wives, who burned incense and offered sacrifices to their gods.
2Ki 23:7
He (Josiah) also tore down the quarters of the male shrine prostitutes that were in the temple of the LORD, the quarters where women did weaving for Asherah.
The Hebrew language uses gendered words for sex trade income. Female earnings are called eth-NAWN. (Strong, h868) The specific sex trade term for male income is meh-CHERE. (Strong, h4242)
You must not bring the earnings of a female prostitute (eth-NAWN) or of a male prostitute (meh-CHERE) into the house of the LORD your God to pay any vow, because the LORD your God detests them both.
The majority use of the porn word group in the Bible points to trafficking of humans for the sexeconomy of religious cults. This may assist parents as they speak to their children about pornography. Restoring the image of God in Christ to human sexuality may treat human trafficking and erotic media of the porn industry. Is it possible objectification and dehumanization form the common ground of trafficking and pornography? Could the beauty of God’s image redeem dehumanization and objectification of erotic media? Can this conversation with our families begin to replace pornography as the primary educator for children’s sexual health?
Sexual Neuropathways: There are 5 neuropathways wiring the most powerful network in human anatomy, the sexual system. The Prefrontal Cortex regulates sexuality with reason, compassion, awareness, and spirituality. The second pathway transfers dopamine in the attraction system. The third neuropathway connects through oxytocin and vasopressin. Oxytocin is responsible for bonding sensations. Vasopressin assists with long-term relationships. The fourth neuropathway transfers hormones of testosterone and estrogen. These transfers can last over a week. The fifth pathway is the adrenaline network. Adrenaline transfers during orgasm and is responsible for ejaculatory inevitability.
Sexual Neutrality: Sexual neutrality is a state of health and wholeness without sex negativity. Jesus modeled this great truth. The primary sexual neuro pathway is the prefrontal cortex. Sexual neutrality proposes that one can have sexual feelings, including romantic attraction and desire, without genital sexual intercourse. The prefrontal cortex can be nonjudgmental of sexual feelings, and at the same time, compassionate for others, aware that intercourse is not the greatest value in life. For the adolescent, sexual feelings reflect the image of God, and intimacy with God and others can be our greatest passion without intercourse. A neuroscientist named, Schore, writes:
“In a seminal article in the clinical psychology literature, Leslie Greenberg described a ‘self-control’ form of emotion regulation involving higher levels of cognitive executive function that allows individuals ‘to change the way they feel by consciously changing the way they think’ (2007, p. 415). He [Greenberg] proposed that this explicit form of affect regulation is performed by the verbal left hemisphere, and unconscious bodily-based emotion is usually not addressed. This regulatory mechanism is at the core of verbal-analytic understanding and controlled reasoning and is heavily emphasized in models of cognitive behavioral therapy.” (p. 37)
Paul the Apostle too speaks of emotional regulation in Galatians 5:22-23.
But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, forbearance, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness and self-control. Against such things there is no law.
This fruit of the Spirit is set in opposition to the “flesh”.
The acts of the flesh are obvious: sexual immorality, impurity and debauchery;idolatry and witchcraft; hatred, discord, jealousy, fits of rage, selfish ambition, dissensions, factionsand envy; drunkenness, orgies, and the like. I warn you, as I did before, that those who live like this will not inherit the kingdom of God. (Galatians 5:19-21)
Note that the Spirit of God regulates the limbic system actions of “the flesh” with the PFC functions of love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness, and self-regulation. Neuroscientists like Greenberg will agree with Paul the Apostle after 2000 years of scientific research.
Sexual Nihilism: Sexual nihilism is the philosophy that sexuality has no values and nothing can be truthfully known or communicated. Nihilism connects with extreme pessimism and radical skepticism condemning existence. A true nihilist believes in nothing, has no loyalties, and whose purpose and impulse is to destroy. Nihilism is associated with Friedrich Nietzsche who projected its destructive effects would undermine moral, religious, and metaphysical convictions thus creating the greatest crisis in human history. In the 20th century, nihilistic value destruction, and purposelessness have preoccupied arts and media. By the end of the 20th century, existential despair transitioned to indifference, as seen in increased suicide statistics across all age groups, school shootings without national prevention policies, and increasing opioid fatalities. A sexual nihilist would then have no sexual boundaries, no loyalties, no purpose, and present a destructive pattern in sexual relationships (Pratt, 2021).
Sexually Transmitted Infections: Sexually Transmitted Infections (STIs) are infections spread through sexual contact, including vaginal, anal, and oral sex, and sometimes via blood or from parent to baby; common examples are HPV, Chlamydia, Gonorrhea, Herpes, HIV, and Syphilis, often showing symptoms like unusual discharge, sores, pain, or itching, but many have no symptoms, requiring testing for diagnosis, with bacterial STIs curable but viral ones manageable with medication, emphasizing prevention through sexual neutrality, condoms, mutual monogamy, and regular testing for sexual health.
Common STIs
- HPV (Human Papillomavirus): Very common, causes genital warts or increases cancer risk.
- Chlamydia & Gonorrhea: Bacterial infections, often asymptomatic but treatable.
- Syphilis: Bacterial, progresses in stages; treatable but can be severe if untreated.
- Herpes (HSV): Viral, causes sores, incurable but manageable with antivirals.
- HIV: Viral, affects the immune system; manageable with treatment.
- Trichomoniasis: Parasitic, curable.
Common Signs & Symptoms
- Unusual discharge from penis or vagina.
- Sores, bumps, or blisters in genital/anal area.
- Pain or burning during urination or sex.
- Itching or discomfort in the genital area.
- Bleeding between periods (in women).
Prevention & Management
- Sexual Neutrality: The only 100% effective method.
- Condoms: Reduce risk but don’t eliminate it, especially for skin-to-skin infections like herpes/HPV.
- Testing: Regular testing with partners is key; many STIs have no symptoms.
- Treatment: Get treated with a partner simultaneously; bacterial STIs curable, viral ones managed.
- Vaccination: Available for some like HPV. The local economy impacting Abraham suffers downturn. Anxious, Abraham moves his family south to recession resistant Egypt. Abraham feels the immediate threat of Egyptian sexual politics. He states to his wife, Sarah, “I know what a beautiful woman you are. When the Egyptians see you, they will say, ‘This is his wife.’ They will kill me but will let you live. Say you are my sister so that I will be treated well for your sake and my life will be spared because of you” (Genesis 12:11–13).
Abraham understood the sexual politics of Pharaoh. Egyptian royalty operated sovereignly, holding themselves as deities. Forcefully taking eligible child-bearing women for the royal harem was not unknown. One common thread in unhealthy sexuality snapshots is the consequences of infidelity, which may be a teaching illustration for children about sexually transmitted infections. The ancient Near Eastern explanation of sexually transmitted infections assigned divine punishment for sexual misconduct. Pharaoh takes Sarah as a sexual partner for his harem. The royal household immediately suffers disease, “But the Lord inflicted serious diseases on Pharoah and his household because of Abram’s wife Sarah” (Genesis 12:17). Ancient Egyptian medical papyri describe numerous disorders, including sexually transmitted infections. The Kahun papyri of 1900 BCE lists impotence, irritated genitals, the labia being “ill”, prolapsed uterus, and venereal disease. Although ancient physicians did not comprehend the science of sexual transmitted infections, the Akkadians assessed that testicular abscesses originated from “being in bed with a woman” (Tannahil, p. 65).
The Biblical writer charges God as the source of the disease because Pharaoh took Sarah, a married woman, as royal consort. Ascribing natural consequences to God is a frequent literary device called a causation idiom. Humankind in the ancient Near East interpreted all disasters and disease as originating from deities. After perhaps suffering a sexually transmitted infection, Pharaoh releases Sarah, and Abraham returns to his homeland richer. Abraham uses this method of self-preservation again, resulting in sexual disease of another royal, King Abimelek, in Genesis 20:2.
Shutdown: PTSD literature has long identified the parasympathetic response to trauma called “shutdown”. Porge uses the term polyvagal theory to describe this phenomenon in the human system.
Polyvagal shutdown is a state of prefrontal cortex disabling triggered by the dorsal vagal nerve when the body experiences real or perceived threat. This protective mechanism, acts as last resort when fight-or-flight responses are insufficient. It’s characterized by a drop in heart rate, respiration, low energy, dissociation, and feelings of disconnection or numbness.
Polyvagal Theory, developed by Dr. Stephen Porges, outlines a hierarchy of nervous system states:
- Ventral Vagal State: .
This is a state of prefrontal cortex activity is characterized by calm, relaxed breathing, and a sense of connection to oneself and others. - Sympathetic State: .
The fight-or-flight response, triggers by perceived danger followed by increased heart rate, breathing, and alertness. - Dorsal Vagal State (Shutdown): .
When fight-or-flight is not possible, the dorsal vagal nerve activates, leading to shutdown or immobilization.
In dorsal vagal shutdown, the body conserves energy and reduces pain perception by:
- Decreasing heart rate and breathing thus reducing the body’s metabolic demands.
- Dissociation involves a feeling of detachment from the body or surroundings. When sexual trauma triggers shutdown, the brain is unable to process sexual health content.
- Numbness and emotional detachment manifest as a lack of feeling or a sense of disconnection from awareness, compassion, and reason relating to sexual health content.
- The body conserves energy by reducing activity levels with feelings of fatigue.
- Digestive problems, nausea, or changes in pain perception may occur.
In this work the disabling of the prefrontal cortex (PFC) in shutdown, prevents processing of sexual health content.
Index of Health Terms For The Book of Genesis
Sexual Health Positive Terms
1-2. Be Fruitful and Increase, pah-RAH rah-BAH (Gen 1:22) Strong, h6509 and h7235
God blessed them and said, “Be fruitful and increase (pah-RAH rah-BAH) in number and fill the water in the seas, and let the birds increase on the earth.”
God blessed them and said to them, “Be fruitful and increase (pah-RAH rah-BAH) in number; fill the earth and subdue it. Rule over the fish in the sea and the birds in the sky and over every living creature that moves on the ground.”
Bring out every kind of living creature that is with you—the birds, the animals, and all the creatures that move along the ground—so they can multiply on the earth and be fruitful and increase (pah-RAH rah-BAH) in number on it.”
Then God blessed Noah and his sons, saying to them, “Be fruitful and increase (pah-RAH rah-BAH) in number and fill the earth.
As for you, be fruitful and increase (pah-RAH rah-BAH) in number; multiply on the earth and increase upon it.”
And as for Ishmael, I have heard you: I will surely bless him; I will make him fruitful and will greatly increase (pah-RAH rah-BAH) his numbers. He will be the father of twelve rulers, and I will make him into a great nation.
May God Almighty bless you and make you fruitful and increase (pah-RAH rah-BAH) your numbers until you become a community of peoples.
And God said to him, “I am God Almighty; be fruitful and increase (pah-RAH rah-BAH) in number. A nation and a community of nations will come from you, and kings will be among your descendants.
Now the Israelites settled in Egypt in the region of Goshen. They acquired property there and were fruitful and increased (pah-RAH rah-BAH) greatly in number.
I am going to make you fruitful and increase (pah-RAH rah-BAH) your numbers. I will make you a community of peoples, and I will give this land as an everlasting possession to your descendants after you.’
but the Israelites were exceedingly fruitful (pah-RAH); they multiplied greatly, increased (rah-BAH) in numbers and became so numerous that the land was filled with them.
I will look on you with favor and make you fruitful and increase (pah-RAH rah-BAH) your numbers, and I will keep my covenant with you.
“I myself will gather the remnant of my flock out of all the countries where I have driven them and will bring them back to their pasture, where they will be fruitful and increase (pah-RAH rah-BAH) in number.
I will increase (rah-BAH) the number of people and animals living on you, and they will be fruitful (pah-RAH) and become numerous. I will settle people on you as in the past and will make you prosper more than before. Then you will know that I am the LORD.
28 times in 14 WLC verses
3H. Sexual Connection, dah-BACH (Gen 2:24) Strong, h1692
That is why a man leaves his father and mother and is united (dah-BACH) to his wife, and they become one flesh.
His heart was drawn (dah-BACH) to Dinah daughter of Jacob; he loved the young woman and spoke tenderly to her.
They were from nations about which the LORD had told the Israelites, “You must not intermarry with them, because they will surely turn your hearts after their gods.” Nevertheless, Solomon held fast (dah-BACH) to them in love.
3 times in 3 WLC verses
3G. Sexual Connection, kah-LA-oh (Mat 19:5) Strong, g2853
For this reason a man will leave his father and mother and be united (kah-LA-oh) to his wife, and the two will become one flesh?
So he went and hired himself out (kah-LA-oh) to a citizen of that country, who sent him to his fields to feed pigs.
Do you not know that he who unites (kah-LA-oh) himself with a prostitute is one with her in body? For it is said, “The two will become one flesh.”
3 times in 3 GNT verses
Total 6 times in 6 WLC and GNT verses
4H. Sexual Intimacy, yah-DAH (Gen 4:1) Strong, h3045
Adam made love to (yah-DAH) his wife Eve, and she became pregnant and gave birth to Cain. She said, “With the help of the LORD I have brought forth a man.”
Cain made love to (yah-DAH) his wife, and she became pregnant and gave birth to Enoch. Cain was then building a city, and he named it after his son Enoch.
Adam made love to (yah-DAH) his wife again, and she gave birth to a son and named him Seth, saying, “God has granted me another child in place of Abel, since Cain killed him.”
They called to Lot, “Where are the men who came to you tonight? Bring them out to us so that we can have sex (yah-DAH) with them.”
Look, I have two daughters who have never slept with (yah-DAH) a man. Let me bring them out to you, and you can do what you like with them. But don’t do anything to these men, for they have come under the protection of my roof.”
The woman was very beautiful, a virgin; no man had ever slept with (yah-DAH) her. She went down to the spring, filled her jar and came up again.
Now kill all the boys. And kill every woman who has slept with (yah-DAH) a man,
…but save for yourselves every girl who has never slept with (yah-DAH) a man.
…and 32,000 women who had never slept with (yah-DAH) a man.
But the men would not listen to him. So the man took his concubine and sent her outside to them, and they raped (yah-DAH) her and abused her throughout the night, and at dawn they let her go.
While they were enjoying themselves, some of the wicked men of the city surrounded the house. Pounding on the door, they shouted to the old man who owned the house, “Bring out the man who came to your house so we can have sex (yah-DAH) with him.”
“This is what you are to do,” they said. “Kill every male and every woman who is not a virgin (yah-DAH).”
They found among the people living in Jabesh Gilead four hundred young women who had never slept with (yah-DAH) a man, and they took them to the camp at Shiloh in Canaan.
The woman was very beautiful; she took care of the king and waited on him, but the king had no sexual relations (yah-DAH) with her.
14 times in 14 WLC verses
4G. Sexual Intimacy, geh-NO-skow (Mat 1:25) Strong, g1097
But he did not consummate (geh-NO-skow) their marriage until she gave birth to a son. And he gave him the name Jesus.
“How will this be,” Mary asked the angel, “since I am a virgin (since I have not known/geh-NO-skow a man) ?”
14 times in 14 WLC verses
2 times in 2 GNT verses
Total 16 times in 16 WLC and GNT verses
5H. Covenant, buh-REETH (Gen 6:18) Strong, h1285
But I will establish my covenant (buh-REETH) with you, and you will enter the ark—you and your sons and your wife and your sons’ wives with you.
284 times in 264 WLC verses
5G. Covenant, dia-THEY-kay (Mat 26:28) Strong, g1242
This is my blood of the covenant (dia-THEY-kay), which is poured out for many for the forgiveness of sins.
33 times in 30 verses of the GNT
Total 317 times in 294 verses
6-7. Recover Unhealthy Sexuality, kah-SAH ehr-VAH (Gen 9:23) h3680 and h6172
But Shem and Japheth took a garment and laid it across their shoulders; then they walked in backward and covered (kah-SAH) their father’s naked body (ehr-VAH). Their faces were turned the other way so that they would not see their father naked.
Later I passed by, and when I looked at you and saw that you were old enough for love, I spread the corner of my garment over you and covered (kah-SAH) your naked body (ehr-VAH). I gave you my solemn oath and entered into a covenant with you, declares the Sovereign LORD, and you became mine.
“Therefore I will take away my grain when it ripens, and my new wine when it is ready. I will take back my wool and my linen, intended to cover (kah-SAH) her naked body (ehr-VAH).
3 times in 3 WLC verses
7H. Bridegroom, chah-THAWN (Gen 19:12) Strong, h2860
The two men said to Lot, “Do you have anyone else here—sons-in-law (chah-THAWN), sons or daughters, or anyone else in the city who belongs to you? Get them out of here,
Appearing 20 times in 19 WLC verses
7G. Bridegroom, noom-PHONE (Mat 9:15) Strong, g3567
Jesus answered, “How can the guests of the bridegroom mourn while he is with them? The time will come when the bridegroom (NOOM-phone) will be taken from them; then they will fast.
Appearing 3 times in 3 GNT verses
Total 23 times in 21 WLC and GNT verses
8. Genital Sexual Intercourse, Kah-RAV (Gen 20:4) Strong, h7126
Now Abimelek had not gone near (kah-RAV) her, so he said, “Lord, will you destroy an innocent nation?
Do not approach (kah-RAV) a woman to have sexual relations during the uncleanness of her monthly period.
No one is to approach (kah-RAV) any close relative to have sexual relations. I am the LORD.
Then I made love (kah-RAV) to the prophetess, and she conceived and gave birth to a son. And the LORD said to me, “Name him Maher-Shalal-Hash-Baz.
He does not eat at the mountain shrines or look to the idols of Israel. He does not defile his neighbor’s wife or have sexual relations (kah-RAV) with a woman during her period.
5 times in 5 WLC verses
9H.Virgin, buh-TWO-lah (Gen 24:16) Strong, h1330
The woman was very beautiful, a virgin (buh-TWO-lah); no man had ever slept with her. She went down to the spring, filled her jar and came up again.
Appearing 50 times in 50 WLC verses
9G. Virgin, par-THEN-os (Mat 1:23) Strong, g3933
“The virgin (par-THEN-os) will conceive and give birth to a son, and they will call him Immanuel” (which means “God with us”).
Appearing 15 times in 15 GNT verses
Total 65 times in 65 WLC and GNT verses
10. Fall in Love, Lover, ah-HAWV (Gen 24:67) Strong, h157
Isaac brought her into the tent of his mother Sarah, and he married Rebekah. So she became his wife, and he loved (ah-HAWV) her; and Isaac was comforted after his mother’s death.
Jacob was in love (ah-HAWV) with Rachel and said, “I’ll work for you seven years in return for your younger daughter Rachel.”
So Jacob served seven years to get Rachel, but they seemed like only a few days to him because of his love (ah-HAWV) for her.
Jacob made love (BO) to Rachel also, and his love (ah-HAWV) for Rachel was greater than his love for Leah. And he worked for Laban another seven years.
Leah became pregnant and gave birth to a son. She named him Reuben, for she said, “It is because the LORD has seen my misery. Surely my husband will love (ah-HAWV) me now.”
His heart was drawn to Dinah daughter of Jacob; he loved (ah-HAWV) the young woman and spoke tenderly to her.
If a man has two wives, and he loves (ah-HAWV) one but not the other, and both bear him sons but the firstborn is the son of the wife he does not love,
47 times in 42 WLC verses
11. Foreplay to Intercourse, yih-TSACH (Gen 26:8) Strong, h6711
When Isaac had been there a long time, Abimelek, king of the Philistines, looked down from a window and saw Isaac caressing (yih-TSACH) his wife Rebekah.
She called her household servants. “Look,” she said to them, “this Hebrew has been brought to us to make sport (yih-TSACH) of us! He came in here to sleep with me, but I screamed.
Then she told him this story: “That Hebrew slave you brought us came to me to make sport (yih-TSACH) of me.
3 times in 3 WLC verses
12H. Kiss, nah-SHAWK (Gen 27:26) Strong, h5401
Then his father Isaac said to him, “Come here, my son, and kiss (nah-SHAWK) me.”
30 times in 30 WLC verses
12G. Kiss, phi-LE-oh (Mat 26:48) Strong, g5368
Now the betrayer had arranged a signal with them: “The one I kiss (phi-LE-oh) is the man; arrest him.”
2 times in 2 verses of the GNT
Total 32 times in 32 WLC and GNT verses
13. Mandrakes, doo-DAI: (Gen 30:14) Strong, h1736
During wheat harvest, Reuben went out into the fields and found some mandrakes (doo-DAI) plants, which he brought to his mother Leah. Rachel said to Leah, “Please give me some of your son’s mandrakes (doo-DAI).” But she said to her, “Wasn’t it enough that you took away my husband? Will you take my son’s mandrakes (doo-DAI) too?” “Very well,” Rachel said, “he can sleep with you tonight in return for your son’s mandrakes (doo-DAI).” So when Jacob came in from the fields that evening, Leah went out to meet him. “You must sleep with me,” she said. “I have hired you with my son’s mandrakes (doo-DAI).” So he slept with her that night. God listened to Leah, and she became pregnant and bore Jacob a fifth son.
Appearing 7 times in 3 WLC verses
14. Fall in Love, chah-SHAWK (Gen 34:8) Strong, h2836
But Hamor said to them, “My son Shechem has his heart set on (chah-SHAWK) your daughter. Please give her to him as his wife.
4 times in 4 WLC verses
15. Eunuch/Intersexual Traits, sah-REECE (Gen 37:36) Strong, h5631, g2135
Meanwhile, the Midianites sold Joseph in Egypt to Potiphar, one of Pharaoh’s officials (sah-REECE), the captain of the guard.
42 times in 42 WLC verses
8 times in 6 GNT verses
Total 50 times in 48 verses
Reproductive and Anatomical Terms
39H. Genital Tissue, bah-SAR (Gen 2:24) Strong, h1320
That is why a man leaves his father and mother and is united to his wife, and they become one flesh (bah-SAR).
You are to undergo circumcision (in the flesh (bah-SAR) of your foreskin), and it will be the sign of the covenant between me and you.
Any uncircumcised male, who has not been circumcised in the flesh (bah-SAR), will be cut off from his people; he has broken my covenant.
On that very day Abraham took his son Ishmael and all those born in his household or bought with his money, every male in his household, and circumcised them (in the flesh (bah-SAR) of the foreskin), as God told him.
Abraham was ninety-nine years old when he was circumcised (in the flesh (bah-SAR) of the foreskin)
“Make linen undergarments as a covering for the body (bah-SAR), reaching from the waist to the thigh.
The priest shall then put on his linen clothes, with linen undergarments next to his body (bah-SAR), and shall remove the ashes of the burnt offering that the fire has consumed on the altar and place them beside the altar.
On the eighth day the boy is to be circumcised (in the flesh (bah-SAR) of his foreskin).
When a man has an emission of semen, he must bathe his whole body (bah-SAR) with water, and he will be unclean till evening.
When a woman has her regular flow of blood (in her flesh (bah-SAR), the impurity of her monthly period will last seven days, and anyone who touches her will be unclean till evening.
No one is to approach any close relative (of his flesh, bah-SAR) to have sexual relations. I am the LORD.
You engaged in prostitution with the Egyptians, your neighbors with large genitals (bah-SAR), and aroused my anger with your increasing promiscuity.
There she lusted after her lovers, whose genitals (bah-SAR) were like those (bah-SAR)of donkeys and whose emission was like that of horses.
14 times in 13 WLC verses
39G. Genital Tissue, The Human Body, SARKS, (Mat 19:5) Strong, g4561
and said, “For this reason a man will leave his father and mother and be united to his wife, and the two will become one flesh (SARKS)”
So they are no longer two, but one flesh (SARKS). Therefore what God has joined together, let no one separate.”
…and the two will become one flesh (SARKS). So they are no longer two, but one flesh (SARKS).
But if you do marry, you have not sinned; and if a virgin marries, she has not sinned. But those who marry will face many troubles in this life (SARKS), and I want to spare you this.
The acts of the flesh (SARKS) are obvious: sexual immorality, impurity and debauchery;
Those who belong to Christ Jesus have crucified the flesh (SARKS) with its passions and desires.
After all, no one ever hated their own body (SARKS), but they feed and care for their body, just as Christ does the church—
“For this reason a man will leave his father and mother and be united to his wife, and the two will become one flesh (SARKS).”
In a similar way, Sodom and Gomorrah and the surrounding towns gave themselves up to sexual immorality (sex trafficking) and perversion (SARKS). They serve as an example of those who suffer the punishment of eternal fire.
In the very same way, on the strength of their dreams these ungodly people pollute their own bodies (SARKS), reject authority and heap abuse on celestial beings.
…save others by snatching them from the fire; to others show mercy, mixed with fear—hating even the clothing stained by corrupted flesh (SARKS).
12 times in 11 GNT verses
Total 26 times in 24 WLC and GNT verses
40H. Naked, ah-ROME (Gen 2:25) Strong, h6174
Adam and his wife were both naked (ah-ROME), and they felt no shame.
15 times in 14 WLC verses
40G. Naked, GOOM-nos (Mar 14:52) Strong, g1131
15 times in 15 GNT verses
Total 30 times in 29 verses
41H. Seed, Offspring, Semen, zeh-RAH (Gen 1:11) Strong, h2232
229 times in 205 WLC verses
41G. Offspring, SPER-ma (Rev 12:17) Strong, g4690
Then the dragon was enraged at the woman and went off to wage war against the rest of her offspring (SPER-ma)—those who keep God’s commands and hold fast their testimony about Jesus.
43 times in 40 GNT verses
42. Sperm, spoe-RAH (1Pe 1:23) Strong, g4701
For you have been born again, not of perishable seed (spoe-RAH), but of imperishable, through the living and enduring word of God.
1 time in 1 GNT verse
43. Conception, Childbirth, heh-ray-YOWN (Gen 3:16) Strong, h2032
To the woman he said, “I will make your pains in childbearing (heh-rey-OWN) very severe; with painful labor you will give birth to children. Your desire will be for your husband, and he will rule over you.”
So Boaz took Ruth and she became his wife. When he made love to her, the LORD enabled her to conceive (heh-rey-OWN), and she gave birth to a son.
Ephraim’s glory will fly away like a bird— no birth, no pregnancy, no conception (heh-rey-OWN) .
3 times in 3 WLC verses
44. Labor of Childbirth, oh-DEE-no (Gal 4:19) Strong, g5605
My dear children, for whom I am again in the pains of childbirth (oh-DEE-no) until Christ is formed in you,
For it is written: “Be glad, barren woman, you who never bore a child; shout for joy and cry aloud, you who were never in labor (oh-DEE-no); because more are the children of the desolate woman than of her who has a husband.”
She was pregnant (holding in the stomach) and cried out in pain (oh-DEE-no) as she was about to give birth.
3 times in 3 GNT verses
45. Intense Pain of Childbirth, soon-oh-DEE-no (Rom 8:22) Strong, g4944
We know that the whole creation has been groaning as in the pains (soon-oh-DEE-no) of childbirth (TIK-toe) right up to the present time.
1 time in 1 GNT verse
46H. Give Birth To, YEH-led (Gen 3:16) Strong, h3205
500 times in 403 WLC verses
46G. Give Birth to,TIK-toe (Mat 1:21) Strong, g5088
She will give birth (TIK-toe) to a son, and you are to give him the name Jesus, because he will save his people from their sins.”
18 times in 17 GNT verses
Total 518 times in 420 WLC and GNT verses
47H. Conceive, hah-RAH (Gen 4:1) Strong, h2029
Adam made love to his wife Eve, and she became pregnant (hah-RAH) and gave birth to Cain. She said, “With the help of the LORD I have brought forth a man.”
43 times in 42 WLC verses
47G. Conceive, (hold in the abdomen), EH-cho en gah-STREE (Mat 1:23) Strong, g2192 and g1064
“The virgin will conceive (hold in the abdomen) and give birth to (TIK-toe) a son, and they will call him Immanuel” (which means “God with us”).
8 times 8 in GNT verses
Total 51 times in 50 WLC and GNT verses
48. Conceive, sool-lawm-BAH-no, (Luk 2:21) Strong, g4815
6 times in 6 New Testament verses
Total 57 times in 56 WLC and GNT verses
49H. Infertile, ah-KAR (Gen 11:30) Strong, h6135
Now Sarai was childless (ah-KAR) because she was not able to conceive.
12 times in 12 WLC verses
49G. Infertile, STAY-rah (Luk 1:7) Strong, g4723
But they were childless because Elizabeth was not able to conceive (STAY-rah), and they were both very old.
5 times in 5 GNT verses
Total 17 times in 17 WLC and GNT verses
50H. Circumcision, MOOL (Gen 17:10) Strong, h4135
This is my covenant with you and your descendants after you, the covenant you are to keep: Every male among you shall be circumcised (MOOL).
36 times in 32 WLC verses
50G. Circumcision, peh-ree-TEM-no (Jhn 7:22) Strong, g4061
Yet, because Moses gave you circumcision (peh-ree-TEM-no) (though actually it did not come from Moses, but from the patriarchs), you circumcise (peh-ree-TEM-no) a boy on the Sabbath.
36 times in 32 GNT verses
Total 72 times in 64 WLC and GNT verses
51. Circumcision, nah-MAHL (Gen 17:11) Strong, h5243
You are to undergo circumcision (nah-MAHL), and it will be the sign of the covenant between me and you.
1 time in 1 WLC verse
52. Foreskin, ahr-LAH (Gen 17:11) Strong, h6190
You are to undergo circumcision (in the flesh (bah-SAR) of your foreskin (ahr-LAH), and it will be the sign of the covenant between me and you.
14 times in 14 WLC verses
53. Circumcision, moo-LAH (Exo 4:26) Strong, h4139
So the LORD let him alone. (At that time she said “bridegroom of blood,” referring to circumcision (moo-LAH).
1 time in 1 WLC verse
54. Midwife, YEH-led (Gen 35:17) Strong, h3205
And as she was having great difficulty in childbirth, the midwife (YEH-led) said to her, “Don’t despair, for you have another son.”
9 times in 8 WLC verses
55. Breast, SHAWD (Gen 49:25) Strong, h7699
Because of your father’s God, who helps you, because of the Almighty, who blesses you with blessings of the skies above, blessings of the deep springs below, blessings of the breast (SHAWD) and womb.
24 times in 24 WLC verses
56. Menstruation: The Way of Women, DEH-rek nah-SHEEM (Gen 31:35) Strong, h1870 and h802
Rachel said to her father, “Don’t be angry, my lord, that I cannot stand up in your presence; I’m having my period (DEH-rek nah-SHEEM).” So he searched but could not find the household gods.
1 time in 1 WLC verse
57. Coitus Interruptus Ejaculation, shah-CHAWT (Gen 38:9) Strong, h7843
But Onan knew that the child would not be his; so whenever he slept with his brother’s wife, he spilled (shah-CHAWT) his semen on the ground to keep from providing offspring for his brother.
1 time in 1 WLC verse
Total Genesis 1069 Occurrences in 912 verses. REDO
Unhealthy Sexuality Terms
64H. Sexual Safety Decline, chah-LAWL (Gen 6:1) Strong, h2490
When human beings began (chah-LAWL) to increase in number on the earth and daughters were born to them….
Noah, a man of the soil, proceeded (chah-LAWL) to plant a vineyard.
Turbulent as the waters, you will no longer excel, for you went up onto your father’s bed, onto my couch and defiled (chah-LAWL) it.
“ ‘Do not give any of your children to be sacrificed to Molek, for you must not profane (chah-LAWL) the name of your God. I am the LORD.
“ ‘Do not degrade (chah-LAWL) your daughter by making her a prostitute, or the land will turn to prostitution and be filled with wickedness.
I myself will set my face against him and will cut him off from his people; for by sacrificing his children to Molek, he has defiled my sanctuary and profaned (chah-LAWL) my holy name.
He must not make himself unclean for people related to him by marriage, and so defile (chah-LAWL) himself.
“ ‘If a priest’s daughter defiles (chah-LAWL) herself by becoming a prostitute, she disgraces her father; she must be burned in the fire.
so that he will not defile (chah-LAWL) his offspring among his people. I am the LORD, who makes him holy.’ ”
While Israel was staying in Shittim, the men began (chah-LAWL) to indulge in sexual immorality with Moabite women,
You will be pledged to be married to a woman, but another will take her and rape her. You will build a house, but you will not live in it. You will plant a vineyard, but you will not even begin (chah-LAWL) to enjoy its fruit.
You will become (chah-LAWL) pregnant and have a son whose head is never to be touched by a razor because the boy is to be a Nazirite, dedicated to God from the womb. He will take the lead in delivering Israel from the hands of the Philistines.”
After putting him to sleep on her lap, she called for someone to shave off the seven braids of his hair, and so began (chah-LAWL) to subdue him. And his strength left him.
The sons of Reuben the firstborn of Israel (he was the firstborn, but when he defiled (chah-LAWL) his father’s marriage bed, his rights as firstborn were given to the sons of Joseph son of Israel; so he could not be listed in the genealogical record in accordance with his birthright,
because they had not obeyed my laws but had rejected my decrees and desecrated (chah-LAWL) my Sabbaths, and their eyes lusted after their parents’ idols.
As for you, people of Israel, this is what the Sovereign LORD says: Go and serve your idols, every one of you! But afterward you will surely listen to me and no longer profane (chah-LAWL) my holy name with your gifts and idols.
You have despised my holy things and desecrated (chah-LAWL) my Sabbaths.
On the very day they sacrificed their children to their idols, they entered my sanctuary and desecrated (chah-LAWL) it. That is what they did in my house.
In addition to all your other detestable practices, you brought foreigners uncircumcised in heart and flesh into my sanctuary, desecrating (chah-LAWL) my temple while you offered me food, fat and blood, and you broke my covenant.
“His armed forces will rise up to desecrate (chah-LAWL) the temple fortress and will abolish the daily sacrifice. Then they will set up the abomination that causes desolation.
Judah has been unfaithful. A detestable thing has been committed in Israel and in Jerusalem: Judah has desecrated (chah-LAWL) the sanctuary the LORD loves by marrying women who worship a foreign god.
20 times in 20 WLC verses
64G. Sexual Safety Decline, bah-DEH-loog-ma (Mat 24:15) Strong, g946
“So when you see standing in the holy place ‘the abomination that causes desolation, (bah-DEH-loog-ma)’ spoken of through the prophet Daniel—let the reader understand—
“His armed forces will rise up to desecrate (chah-LAWL) the temple fortress and will abolish the daily sacrifice. Then they will set up the abomination that causes desolation.
6 times in 6 GNT verses
65. Coercive Sexual Intercourse, BO (Gen 6:4) Strong, h935
The Nephilim were on the earth in those days—and also afterward—when the sons of God went (BO) to the daughters of humans and had children by them. They were the heroes of old, men of renown.
He slept (BO) with Hagar, and she conceived. When she knew she was pregnant, she began to despise her mistress.
The next day the older daughter said to the younger, “Last night I slept with my father. Let’s get him to drink wine again tonight, and you go in (BO) and sleep with him so we can preserve our family line through our father.”
But Onan knew that the child would not be his; so whenever he slept with (BO) his brother’s wife, he spilled his semen on the ground to keep from providing offspring for his brother.
Not realizing that she was his daughter-in-law, he went over to her by the roadside and said, “Come now (BO), let me sleep with you.” “And what will you give me to sleep with (BO) you?” she asked.
29 times in 29 WLC verses
66. Sexual Nihilism, Evil, RA (Gen 6:5) Strong, h7451
The LORD saw how great the wickedness (RA) of the human race had become on the earth, and that every inclination of the thoughts of the human heart was only evil (RA) all the time.
The LORD smelled the pleasing aroma and said in his heart: “Never again will I curse the ground because of humans, even though every inclination of the human heart is evil (RA) from childhood. And never again will I destroy all living creatures, as I have done.
Now the people of Sodom were wicked (RA) and were sinning greatly against the LORD.
Esau then realized how displeasing (RA) the Canaanite women were to his father Isaac;
But Er, Judah’s firstborn, was wicked (RA) in the LORD’s sight; so the LORD put him to death.
and slanders her and gives her a bad (RA) name, saying, “I married this woman, but when I approached her, I did not find proof of her virginity,”
They shall fine him a hundred shekels of silver and give them to the young woman’s father, because this man has given an Israelite virgin a bad (RA) name. She shall continue to be his wife; he must not divorce her as long as he lives.
…she shall be brought to the door of her father’s house and there the men of her town shall stone her to death. She has done an outrageous thing in Israel by being promiscuous while still in her father’s house. You must purge the evil (RA) from among you.
If a man is found sleeping with another man’s wife, both the man who slept with her and the woman must die. You must purge the evil (RA) from Israel.
…you shall take both of them to the gate of that town and stone them to death—the young woman because she was in a town and did not scream for help, and the man because he violated another man’s wife. You must purge the evil (RA) from among you.
The Israelites did evil (RA) in the eyes of the LORD; they forgot the LORD their God and served the Baals and the Asherahs.
Again the Israelites did evil (RA) in the eyes of the LORD. They served the Baals and the Ashtoreths, and the gods of Aram, the gods of Sidon, the gods of Moab, the gods of the Ammonites and the gods of the Philistines. And because the Israelites forsook the LORD and no longer served him,
“This is what the LORD says: ‘Out of your own household I am going to bring calamity (RA) on you. Before your very eyes I will take your wives and give them to one who is close to you, and he will sleep with your wives in broad daylight.’”
So Solomon did evil (RA) in the eyes of the LORD; he did not follow the LORD completely, as David his father had done.
They sacrificed their sons and daughters in the fire. They practiced divination and sought omens and sold themselves to do evil (RA) in the eyes of the LORD, arousing his anger.
And among the prophets of Jerusalem I have seen something horrible: They commit adultery and live a lie. They strengthen the hands of evildoers (RA), so that not one of them turns from their wickedness. They are all like Sodom to me; the people of Jerusalem are like Gomorrah.”
16 times in 16 WLC verses
67. Sexually Transmitted Infections, NEH-gah (Gen 12:17) Strong, h5060
But the LORD inflicted serious diseases (NEH-gah) on Pharaoh and his household because of Abram’s wife Sarai.
78 times in 62 verses of the WLC
68. Sodom, (Gen 13:13) Strong, h5467
39 verses WLC
9 verses GNT
Total 48 times in 48 WLC and GNT verses
69. Coercive Intercourse, shah-CAWV (Gen 19:32) Strong, h7901
Let’s get our father to drink wine and then sleep (shah-CAWV) with him and preserve our family line through our father.”
54 times in 54 WLC verses
70-71. Rape, shah-KAWV ah-NAH (Gen 34:2) Strong, h7901 and
and h6031
When Shechem son of Hamor the Hivite, the ruler of that area, saw her, he took her and raped (shah-KAWV ah-NAH) her.
He shall pay her father fifty shekels of silver. He must marry the young woman, for he has violated (ah-NAH shah-KAWV) her. He can never divorce her as long as he lives.
But he refused to listen to her, and since he was stronger than she, he raped (ah-NAH shah-KAWV) her.
Total 3 times in 3 WLC verses
72H. Sacred or Secular Sex Trafficking, zah-NAH (Gen 34:31) Strong, h2181
But they replied, “Should he have treated our sister like a prostitute (zah-NAH)?”
93 times in 81 WLC verses
72G. Sacred Sex Trafficking, par-NAY-ah (Mat 5:32) Strong, g4202, g4203, g4204, g4205
But I tell you that anyone who divorces his wife, except for sexual immorality (par-NAY-ah), makes her the victim of adultery, and anyone who marries a divorced woman commits adultery.
88 times in 76 verses GNT
Total 181 times in 157 WLC and GNT verses
73. Sex Trafficked Female and Sex Trafficked Male, kah-day-SHAW, kah-DEISH (Gen 38:21) Strong, h6948 and h6945
He asked the men who lived there, “Where is the shrine prostitute (kah-day-SHAW) who was beside the road at Enaim?” “There hasn’t been any shrine prostitute (kah-day-SHAW) here,” they said.
So he went back to Judah and said, “I didn’t find her. Besides, the men who lived there said, ‘There hasn’t been any shrine prostitute (kah-day-SHAW) here.’ ”
No Israelite man (kah-DEISH) or woman (kah-day-SHAW) is to become a shrine prostitute.
“I will not punish your daughters when they turn to prostitution, nor your daughters-in-law when they commit adultery, because the men themselves consort with harlots and sacrifice with shrine prostitutes (kah-day-SHAW)— a people without understanding will come to ruin!
11 times in 10 WLC verses
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