Leviticus 20:15 Parallel Translations

NASB:

GWT:

A man who has sexual intercourse with an animal must be put to death. You must kill the animal, too.(GOD'S WORD®)

KJV:

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

ASV:

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

BBE:

And if a man has sex relations with a beast, let him be put to death, and let the beast be put to destruction.

DBY:

And if a man lie with a beast for copulation, he shall certainly be put to death; and ye shall kill the beast.

ERV:

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

JPS:

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

WBS:

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

WEB:

"'If a man lies with an animal, he shall surely be put to death; and you shall kill the animal.

YLT:

'And a man who giveth his lying with a beast is certainly put to death, and the beast ye do slay.

Leviticus 20:15 Cross References

XREF:

Leviticus 18:23 'Also you shall not have intercourse with any animal to be defiled with it, nor shall any woman stand before an animal to mate with it; it is a perversion.

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

Commentaries and Concordances

WES:

20:15 Slay the beast - Partly for the prevention of monstrous births, partly to blot out the memory of so loathsome a crime.

MHC:

20:10-27 These verses repeat what had been said before, but it was needful there should be line upon line. What praises we owe to God that he has taught the evil of sin, and the sure way of deliverance from it! May we have grace to adorn the doctrine of God our Saviour in all things; may we have no fellowship with unfruitful works of darkness, but reprove them.

CONC:

Animal Beast Certainly Copulation Death Destruction Giveth Kill Lie Lies Lying Relations Sex Sexual Slay Surely

Animal Beast Copulation Death Destruction Kill Lies Relations Sex Sexual Slay Surely

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