Leviticus 20:15 BSB

Leviticus 20:15

If a man lies carnally with an animal, he must be put to death. And you are also to kill the animal.

BSB

Parallel translations (2) ▾

ASV

And if a man lie with a beast, he shall surely be put to death: and ye shall slay the beast.

KJV

And if a man lie with a beast, he shall surely be put to death: and ye shall slay the beast.

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Commentary

1 voice

Matthew Henry

1662–1714

Commentary on the Whole Bible (1710)

Even the beast that was thus abused was to be killed with the sinner, who was thereby openly put to the greater shame: and the villany was thus represented as in the highest degree execrable and abominable, all occasions of the remembrance or mention of it being to be taken away.

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Original language & word study

10 tagged words

Original	Transliteration	Meaning	Word study
וְאִ֗ישׁ	ve.'Ish	and a man	H376 →
אֲשֶׁ֨ר	'a.Sher	who	H834 →
יִתֵּ֧ן	yi.Ten	he will give	H5414 →
שְׁכָבְתּ֛וֹ	she.kha.ve.To	copulation his	H7903 →
בִּבְהֵמָ֖ה	biv.he.Mah	in an animal	H929 →
מ֣וֹת	Mot	certainly <to die>	H4191 →
יוּמָ֑ת	yu.Mat	he will be put to death	H4191 →
וְאֶת־	ve.'Et	and <obj.>	H853 →
הַבְּהֵמָ֖ה	ha.be.he.Mah	the animal	H929 →
תַּהֲרֹֽגוּ׃	ta.ha.Ro.gu	you will kill	H2026 →

Rare words are the text's own signal of a deliberate thread: the fewer the occurrences, the more the places it appears belong together.

The walk

The walk6

Where the connections lead

Follow this verse’s cross-references two steps out. Each card is a verse this one points to, and beneath it the verses that one points to in turn. Where several different paths arrive at the same place, that place is listed first: the text keeps returning to it. Every stop shows its own words, and every stop is a page.

Through
Exodus 22:19
Whoever lies with an animal must surely be put to death.
leads to
- Deuteronomy 27:21
  ‘Cursed is he who lies with any animal.’ And let all the people say, ‘Amen!’
  Reached by 2 independent paths from here.
- Leviticus 18:23
  You must not lie carnally with any animal, thus defiling yourself with it; a woman must not stand before an animal to mate with it; that is a perversion.
  Reached by 2 independent paths from here.
- Leviticus 20:15–16
  If a man lies carnally with an animal, he must be put to death. And you are also to kill the animal.
  Reached by 2 independent paths from here.
- Leviticus 18:25
  Even the land has become defiled, so I am punishing it for its sin, and the land will vomit out its inhabitants.
Through
Leviticus 18:23
You must not lie carnally with any animal, thus defiling yourself with it; a woman must not stand before an animal to mate with it; that is a perversion.
leads to
- Exodus 22:19
  Whoever lies with an animal must surely be put to death.
  Reached by 2 independent paths from here.
- Leviticus 20:12
  If a man lies with his daughter-in-law, both must surely be put to death. They have acted perversely; their blood is upon them.

About Leviticus

Moses and Aaron Appear before Pharaoh — Gustave Doré, Doré's English Bible (1866), public domain

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Where the connections lead

Commentary

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