Leviticus 20:11-13

20:11 If a man has sexual intercourse with his father’s wife, he has exposed his father’s nakedness. ¹  Both of them must be put to death; their blood guilt is on themselves. ²  20:12 If a man has sexual intercourse with his daughter-in-law, both of them must be put to death. They have committed perversion; ³  their blood guilt is on themselves. 20:13 If a man has sexual intercourse with a male as one has sexual intercourse with a woman, ⁴  the two of them have committed an abomination. They must be put to death; their blood guilt is on themselves.

Leviticus 20:16

20:16 If a woman approaches any animal to have sexual intercourse with it, ⁵  you must kill the woman, and the animal must be put to death; their blood guilt is on themselves.

Leviticus 20:27

Prohibition against Spiritists and Mediums

20:27 “‘A man or woman who ⁶  has in them a spirit of the dead or a familiar spirit ⁷  must be put to death. They must pelt them with stones; ⁸  their blood guilt is on themselves.’”

[20:11]  ¹ sn See the note on Lev 18:7 above.

[20:11]  ² tn See the note on v. 9 above.

[20:12]  ³ tn The Hebrew term תֶּבֶל (tevel, “perversion”) derives from the verb “to mix; to confuse” (cf. KJV, ASV “they have wrought confusion”).

[20:13]  ⁴ tn Heb “[as the] lyings of a woman.” The specific reference here is to homosexual intercourse between males.

[20:16]  ⁵ tn Heb “to copulate with it” (cf. Lev 20:16).

[20:27]  ⁶ tc Smr, LXX, Syriac, and some Targum mss have the relative pronoun אֲשֶׁר (’asher, “who, which”), rather than the MT’s כִּי (ki, “for, because, that”).

[20:27]  ⁷ tn See the note on the phrase “familiar spirit” in Lev 19:31 above.

[20:27]  ⁸ tn This is not the most frequently-used Hebrew verb for stoning, but a word that refers to the action of throwing, slinging, or pelting someone with stones (see the note on v. 2 above). Smr and LXX have “you [plural] shall pelt them with stones.”