22:19 “Whoever has sexual relations 1 with a beast must surely be put to death.
1 tn Heb “lies with.”
2 tn See the note on v. 20 above.
3 tn Heb “to copulate with it” (cf. Lev 20:16).
4 tn The Hebrew term תֶּבֶל (tevel, “perversion”) derives from the verb “to mix; to confuse” and therefore refers to illegitimate mixtures of species or violation of the natural order of things.
5 tn See the note on Lev 18:20 above.