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 19:19
Context19:19 You must keep my statutes. You must not allow two different kinds of your animals to breed, 4 you must not sow your field with two different kinds of seed, and you must not wear 5 a garment made of two different kinds of fabric. 6
Leviticus 20:16
Context20:16 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.


[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.
[19:19] 4 tn Heb “Your animals, you shall not cross-breed two different kinds.”
[19:19] 5 tn Heb “you shall not cause to go up on you.”
[19:19] 6 sn Cf. Deut 22:11 where the Hebrew term translated “two different kinds” (כִּלְאַיִם, kil’ayim) refers to a mixture of linen and wool woven together in a garment.