“Whoever has sex with an animal shall surely be put to death.
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“Whoever has sex with an animal shall surely be put to death.
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Whosoever lieth with a beast shall surely be put to death.
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(22-18) Whosoever lieth with a beast shall surely be put to death.
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- Leviticus 18:23 “ ‘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.
- Deuteronomy 27:21 ‘Cursed is he who lies with any kind of animal.’ All the people shall say, ‘Amen.’
- Leviticus 20:15-16 “ ‘If a man lies with an animal, he shall surely be put to death; and you shall kill the animal. “ ‘If a woman approaches any animal and lies with it, you shall kill the woman and the animal. They shall surely be put to death. Their blood shall be upon them.
- Leviticus 18:25 The land was defiled. Therefore I punished its iniquity, and the land vomited out her inhabitants.
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John Trapp 1656 · Public Domain Exo 22:19 Whosoever lieth with a beast shall surely…
Exo 22:19 Whosoever lieth with a beast shall surely be put to death.
Ver. 19. Be put to death.] Heb., Put him to die. Gr., Kill him with death; as God threateneth to do Jezebel’s children. {Rev 2:23}
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John Gill 1763 · Public Domain He that sacrificeth unto any god,.... To Elohim, to…
He that sacrificeth unto any god,.... To Elohim, to strange gods, to the idols of the people, as the Targum of Jonathan; to the Egyptian deities, to the gods of the Moabites, Amorites, Edomites, Canaanites, Philistines, or any other: Aben Ezra says the word Elohim comprehends angels; and by the exceptive clause it is plain it takes in all that had been, were, or ever would be the objects of idolatrous worship, especially the sun, moon, and stars, the principal objects of worship in those days:
save unto the Lord only; the true and living God; Jehovah, the self-existent, immutable, and eternal Being; the Creator of all things, the possessor of heaven and earth, the most high God, and the only one: sacrificing takes in all the acts of service performed to an idol as to the true God, as offering incense, pouring out a libation, as well as slaying and burning an animal as Jarchi observes: he shall be utterly destroyed; be accursed, anathematized, devoted to destruction, as the word used signifies: the Targum of Jonathan is,"he shall be killed with the sword, and his goods consumed,''not only lose his life but his substance, and so be destroyed in body and estate.
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Adam Clarke 1810 · Public Domain Verse 19. Lieth with a beast] If this most…
Verse 19. Lieth with a beast] If this most abominable crime had not been common, it never would have been mentioned in a sacred code of laws. It is very likely that it was an Egyptian practice; and it is certain, from an account in Sonnini's Travels, that it is practised in Egypt to the present day.
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The Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges 1878 · Public Domain 19. Cf. Lev_18:23; Lev_20:15 f. (both H); Deu_27:21.
19. Cf. Lev_18:23; Lev_20:15 f. (both H); Deu_27:21.
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Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers 1878 · Public Domain (19) The sin here denounced was common among the…
(19) The sin here denounced was common among the Canaanitish nations (Lev_18:24), and not unknown in Egypt (Herod. ii. 46). It was therefore necessary that God’s abhorrence of it should be distinctly declared to Israel.
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The Pulpit Commentary 1880 · Public Domain Law against unnatural crime. The abomination here mentioned is…
Law against unnatural crime. The abomination here mentioned is said to have prevailed in Egypt, and even to have formed part of the Egyptian religion (Heb 2:46; Strab. 17. p. 802; Clem. A1. Cohort. ad Gentes, p. 9; etc.). Though regarded by the Greeks and Romans as disgusting and contemptible, it does not seem to have been made a crime by any of their legislators. It was, however, condemned by the Gentoo laws and by the laws of Menu (11:17).
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