Leviticus 20:15

Easy-to-Read Version

"If a man has sexual relations with an animal, both the man and the animal must be put to death.

Parallel Translations

Hebrew Names Version
If a man lie with a animal, he shall surely be put to death: and you shall kill the animal.

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

Lexham English Bible
"‘As for a man who has sexual relations with an animal, he shall surely be put to death, and you must kill the animal.

New Century Version
"‘If a man has sexual relations with an animal, he must be put to death. You must also kill the animal.

New English Translation
If a man has sexual intercourse with any animal, he must be put to death, and you must kill the animal.

Amplified Bible
'If a man has intimate relations with an animal, he shall most certainly be put to death; you shall kill the animal also.

New American Standard Bible
'If there is a man who has sexual intercourse with an animal, he must be put to death; you shall also kill the animal.

Geneva Bible (1587)
Also the man that lyeth with a beast, shall dye the death, and ye shall slay the beast.

Legacy Standard Bible
If there is a man who lies with an animal, he shall surely be put to death; you shall also kill the animal.

Contemporary English Version
If any of you have sex with an animal, both you and the animal will be put to death, just as you deserve.

Complete Jewish Bible
If a man has sexual relations with an animal, he must be put to death, and you are to kill the animal.

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

English Standard Version
If a man lies with an animal, he shall surely be put to death, and you shall kill the animal.

George Lamsa Translation
And if a man lies with a beast, he shall surely be put to death and the beast shall be stoned.

Good News Translation
If a man has sexual relations with an animal, he and the animal shall be put to death.

Christian Standard Bible®
If a man has sexual intercourse with an animal, he must be put to death; you are also to kill the animal.

Literal Translation
And a man who lies with an animal dying shall die. And you shall kill the animal.

Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
Yf eny man lye with a beest, he shall dye the death, and the beest shal be slayne.

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

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

Bishop's Bible (1568)
And if a man lye with a beast, let hym dye, and ye shall slea the beast also.

JPS Old Testament (1917)
And if a man lie with a beast, he shall surely be put to death; and ye shall slay the beast.

King James Version (1611)
And if a man lie with a beast, he shall surely be put to death: and ye shall slay the beast.

Brenton's Septuagint (LXX)
And whosoever shall lie with a beast, let him die the death; and ye shall kill the beast.

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

Berean Standard Bible
If a man has sexual relations with an animal, he must be put to death. And you are also to kill the animal.

Wycliffe Bible (1395)
He that doith letcherie with a greet beeste, ethir a litil beeste die bi deeth, also sle ye the beeste.

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

Update Bible Version
And if a man has sex with an animal, he shall surely be put to death: and you shall slay the beast.

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

World English Bible
If a man lie with a animal, he shall surely be put to death: and you shall kill the animal.

New King James Version
If a man mates with an animal, he shall surely be put to death, and you shall kill the animal.

New Living Translation
"If a man has sex with an animal, he must be put to death, and the animal must be killed.

New Life Bible
If a man lies with an animal, he must be put to death. Kill the animal also.

New Revised Standard
If a man has sexual relations with an animal, he shall be put to death; and you shall kill the animal.

J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
And, any man, who hath carnal knowledge of a beast, shall, surely be put to death, - and, the beast, shall ye slay.

Douay-Rheims Bible
He that shall copulate with any beast or cattle, dying let him die: the beast also ye shall kill.

Revised Standard Version
If a man lies with a beast, he shall be put to death; and you shall kill the beast.

THE MESSAGE
"If a man has sex with an animal, he must be put to death and you must kill the animal.

New American Standard Bible (1995)
'If there is a man who lies with an animal, he shall surely be put to death; you shall also kill the animal.

Contextual Overview

¹⁰ "If a man has sexual relations with his neighbor's wife, both the man and the woman are guilty of adultery and must be put to death! ¹¹ If a man has sexual relations with his father's wife, both the man and the woman must be put to death. They are responsible for their own death. It is as if that man had sexual relations with his father! ¹² "If a man has sexual relations with his daughter-in-law, both of them must be put to death. They have committed a terrible sexual sin! They are responsible for their own death. ¹³ "If a man has sexual relations with another man as with a woman, they have committed a terrible sin. They must be put to death. They are responsible for their own death. ¹⁴ "It is a sexual sin if a man has sexual relations with a woman and her mother. The people must burn that man and the two women in fire! Don't let this sexual sin happen among your people. ¹⁵ "If a man has sexual relations with an animal, both the man and the animal must be put to death. ¹⁶ If a woman has sexual relations with an animal, you must kill the woman and the animal. They must be put to death. They are responsible for their own death. ¹⁷ "It is a shameful thing for a brother and his sister or half-sister to marry each other and have sexual relations with each other. They must be punished in public. They must be separated from their people. The man who has sexual relations with his sister must be punished for his sin. ¹⁸ "If a man has sexual relations with a woman during her monthly time of bleeding, both the woman and the man must be separated from their people. They sinned because they exposed her source of blood. ¹⁹ "You must not have sexual relations with your mother's sister or your father's sister. That is a sin of incest. You must be punished for your sins.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

Leviticus 18:23, Exodus 22:19, Deuteronomy 27:21

Reciprocal: Exodus 19:13 - whether Exodus 21:28 - the ox

Cross-References

Genesis 13:9
We should separate. You can choose any place you want. If you go to the left, I will go to the right. If you go to the right, I will go to the left."

Genesis 34:10
You can live in the same land with us. You will be free to own the land and to trade here."

Genesis 47:6
You can choose any place in Egypt for them to live. Give your father and your brothers the best land. Let them live in the land of Goshen. And if they are skilled shepherds, they can also care for my cattle."

Gill's Notes on the Bible

If a man lie with a beast,.... A sin quite unnatural, exceeding shocking and detestable, forbid Leviticus 18:23:

he shall surely be put to death: by stoning, as the Targum of Jonathan adds; and this is the death such are condemned to in the Misnah h:

and ye shall slay the beast; with clubs, as says the Targum of Jonathan; the reasons given in the Misnah i, why the beast was to be slain, are, because ruin came to the man by means of it, and that it might not be said, as it passed along the streets, that is the beast for which such an one was stoned. Aben Ezra says it was to be slain, that it might not cause others to sin; and he adds, there are that say it was to cover the reproach: no doubt the true reason was to deter the more from this detestable sin, that if a beast, which was only accessory to it, and an instrument of it, was put to death, of how much sorer punishment must the man that committed it be worthy of, even of eternal wrath and destruction, and, unless repented of and forgiven, must be expected by him?

h Misn. Sanhedrin, c. 7. sect. 4. i Ibid.