Leviticus 18:23
Context18:23 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
Context18:25 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
Context20:15 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
Context27:21 ‘Cursed is the one who commits bestiality.’ 8 Then all the people will say, ‘Amen!’
[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).