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Leviticus 18:23

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18:23 You must not have sexual intercourse 1  with any animal to become defiled with it, and a woman must not stand before an animal to have sexual intercourse with it; 2  it is a perversion. 3 

Leviticus 18:25

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18:25 Therefore 4  the land has become unclean and I have brought the punishment for its iniquity upon it, 5  so that the land has vomited out its inhabitants.

Leviticus 20:15-16

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20:15 If a man has sexual intercourse 6  with any animal, he must be put to death, and you must kill the animal. 20:16 If a woman approaches any animal to have sexual intercourse with it, 7  you must kill the woman, and the animal must be put to death; their blood guilt is on themselves.

Deuteronomy 27:21

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27:21 ‘Cursed is the one who commits bestiality.’ 8  Then all the people will say, ‘Amen!’
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[18:23]  1 tn See the note on v. 20 above.

[18:23]  2 tn Heb “to copulate with it” (cf. Lev 20:16).

[18:23]  3 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.

[18:25]  4 tn Heb “And.” The Hebrew conjunction ו (vav, “and”) can be considered to have resultative or even inferential force here.

[18:25]  5 tn Heb “and I have visited its [punishment for] iniquity on it.” See the note on Lev 17:16 above.

[20:15]  6 tn See the note on Lev 18:20 above.

[20:16]  7 tn Heb “to copulate with it” (cf. Lev 20:16).

[27:21]  8 tn Heb “lies with any animal” (so NASB, NRSV). “To lie with” is a Hebrew euphemism for having sexual relations with someone (or in this case, some animal).



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