Leviticus 18:23 “You must not lie carnally with any animal, thus defiling yourself with…”

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.

Berean Standard Bible

Other translations

King James Version

Neither shalt thou lie with any beast to defile thyself therewith: neither shall any woman stand before a beast to lie down thereto: it is confusion.

World English Bible

“‘You shall not lie with any animal to defile yourself with it. No woman may give herself to an animal, to lie down with it: it is a perversion.

American Standard Version

And thou shalt not lie with any beast to defile thyself therewith; neither shall any woman stand before a beast, to lie down thereto: it is confusion.

Geneva Bible 1599

Thou shalt not also lie with any beast to bee defiled therewith, neither shall any woman stand before a beast, to lie downe thereto: for it is abomination.

Darby Translation

And thou shalt lie with no beast to become unclean therewith; and a woman shall not stand before a beast to lie down with it: it is confusion.

Young's Literal Translation

'And with any beast thou dost not give thy copulation, for uncleanness with it; and a woman doth not stand before a beast to lie down with it; confusion it [is].

Bible in Basic English

And you may not have sex relations with a beast, making yourself unclean with it; and a woman may not give herself to a beast: it is an unnatural act.

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Cross references

“any beast”

Exodus 22:19 Leviticus 20:15 Leviticus 20:16

Exodus 22:19 · BSB

Whoever lies with an animal must surely be put to death.

Leviticus 20:15 · BSB

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

Leviticus 20:16 · BSB

If a woman approaches any animal to mate with it, you must kill both the woman and the animal. They must surely be put to death; their blood is upon them.

“confusion”

Leviticus 20:12

Leviticus 20:12 · BSB

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.

Also

Deuteronomy 27:21

Deuteronomy 27:21 · BSB

‘Cursed is he who lies with any animal.’ And let all the people say, ‘Amen!’

Cross references adapted from OpenBible.info (CC BY 4.0) and the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.

In context

22You must not lie with a man as with a woman; that is an abomination.

24Do not defile yourselves by any of these practices, for by all these things the nations I am driving out before you have defiled themselves.

Read Leviticus 18