Leviticus 18:23 Parallel Translations

Never have sexual intercourse with any animal and become unclean with it. A woman must never offer herself to an animal for sexual intercourse. It is unnatural.(GOD'S WORD®)

KJV:

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.

ASV:

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.

BBE:

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.

DBY:

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.

ERV:

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.

JPS:

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 perversion.

WBS:

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.

WEB:

"'You shall not lie with any animal to defile yourself with it; neither shall any woman give herself to an animal, to lie down with it: it is a perversion.

YLT:

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.

Leviticus 18:23 Cross References

XREF:

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

Leviticus 20:15 If there is a man who lies with an animal, he shall surely be put to death; you shall also kill the animal.

Leviticus 20:16 If there is a woman who approaches any animal to mate with it, you shall kill the woman and the animal; they shall surely be put to death. Their bloodguiltiness is upon them.

Deuteronomy 27:21 'Cursed is he who lies with any animal.' And all the people shall say, 'Amen.' (NASB ©1995)

Commentaries and Concordances

MHC:

18:1-30 Unlawful marriages and fleshly lusts. - Here is a law against all conformity to the corrupt usages of the heathen. Also laws against incest, against brutal lusts, and barbarous idolatries; and the enforcement of these laws from the ruin of the Canaanites. God here gives moral precepts. Close and constant adherence to God's ordinances is the most effectual preservative from gross sin. The grace of God only will secure us; that grace is to be expected only in the use of the means of grace. Nor does He ever leave any to their hearts' lusts, till they have left him and his services.

CONC:

Act Animal Beast Confusion Copulation Defile Defiled Herself Intercourse Lie Making Mate Perversion Present Relations Sex Sexual Stand Thereto Therewith Thyself Unclean Uncleanness Unnatural

Act Animal Beast Confusion Copulation Defile Defiled Herself Intercourse Making Mate Perversion Relations Sex Sexual Stand Thereto Therewith Thyself Unclean Uncleanness Unnatural

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