Leviticus 18:23
Good News Translation
No man or woman is to have sexual relations with an animal; that perversion makes you ritually unclean.

New Revised Standard Version
You shall not have sexual relations with any animal and defile yourself with it, nor shall any woman give herself to an animal to have sexual relations with it: it is perversion.

Contemporary English Version
Anyone who has sex with an animal is unclean.

New American Bible
You shall not have sexual relations with an animal, defiling yourself with it; nor shall a woman set herself in front of an animal to mate with it; that is perverse.

Douay-Rheims Bible
Thou shalt not copulate with any beast: neither shalt thou be defiled with it. A woman shall not lie down to a beast, nor copulate with it: because it is a heinous crime.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Thou shalt not copulate with any beast: neither shalt thou be defiled with it. A woman shall not lie down to a beast, nor copulate with it: because it is a heinous crime.

any beast

Leviticus 20:15,16 He that shall copulate with any beast or cattle, dying let him die: the beast also ye shall kill. . . .

Exodus 22:19 Whosoever copulateth with a beast; shall be put to death.

confusion

Leviticus 20:12 If any man lie with his daughter in law: let both die, because they have done a heinous crime. Their blood be upon them.

Context
Unlawful Sexual Relations
22Thou shalt not lie with mankind as with womankind: because it is an abomination. 23Thou shalt not copulate with any beast: neither shalt thou be defiled with it. A woman shall not lie down to a beast, nor copulate with it: because it is a heinous crime.24Defile not yourselves with any of these things with which all the nations have been defiled, which I will cast out before you,…
Cross References
Exodus 22:19
Whosoever copulateth with a beast; shall be put to death.

Leviticus 20:15
He that shall copulate with any beast or cattle, dying let him die: the beast also ye shall kill.

Leviticus 20:16
The woman that shall lie under any beast, shall be killed together with the same. Their blood be upon them.

Deuteronomy 27:21
Cursed be he that lieth with any beast: and all the people shall say: Amen.

Leviticus 18:22
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