Commandment Profile:

-350) No homosexual relations
Application to gentiles: Required Mandated punishment for violation: Death penalty Brief description: For a man not to have intercourse with another man. Relations between two women are not considered true intercourse, and thus female homosexuality would not be enforced with capital punishment under this commandment. Nevertheless, lesbianism is a violation of the rules against immodesty (see commandment -353), and is therefore also forbidden. Category: Adultery Commandments Biblical source(s) (Rambam): Lev. 18:22; Deut. 23:18 Biblical source (Sefer HaChinuch): Lev. 18:22 Number in Sefer HaChinuch: 209 Sources explaining relevance to gentiles: (See bibliography) Rambam, Mishneh Torah, Issurei Biah 14:10; Melachim 9:5-6 Homosexual relations prohibited for gentiles with death penalty.