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Leviticus 18:23

Leviticus 18:23 is verse 23 of Leviticus chapter 18, shown here in the Berean Standard Bible.

Berean Standard Bible

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.

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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.

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Leviticus 18:21–25 · Berean Standard Bible

21 You must not give any of your children to be sacrificed to Molech, for you must not profane the name of your God. I am the LORD.

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

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.

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

25 Even the land has become defiled, so I am punishing it for its sin, and the land will vomit out its inhabitants.

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Hebrew words

וּבְכָלand in any בְּהֵמָ֛הanimal לֹאnot תִתֵּ֥ןyou will give שְׁכָבְתְּךָ֖copulation your לְטָמְאָהto be unclean בָ֑הּby <the> it וְאִשָּׁ֗הand a woman לֹֽאnot תַעֲמֹ֞דshe will stand לִפְנֵ֧י<to> before בְהֵמָ֛הan animal לְרִבְעָ֖הּto stretch out with it תֶּ֥בֶל[is] confusion הֽוּאit

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Cross-references

The Treasury of Scripture Knowledge lists these related verses. Scripture text comes from the Berean Standard Bible.

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.

Leviticus 20:16
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.

Exodus 22:19
Whoever lies with an animal must surely be put to death.

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.

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