Leviticus 20:15

Literal Standard Version

And a man who commits his intercourse with a beast is certainly put to death, and you slay the beast.

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.

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

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

¹⁰And a man who commits adultery with a man's wife—who commits adultery with the wife of his neighbor—the adulterer and the adulteress are surely put to death. ¹¹And a man who lies with his father's wife—he has uncovered the nakedness of his father—both of them are certainly put to death; their blood [is] on them. ¹²And a man who lies with his daughter-in-law—both of them are certainly put to death; they have done perversion; their blood [is] on them. ¹³And a man who lies with a male as one lies with a woman—both of them have done an abomination; they are certainly put to death; their blood [is] on them. ¹⁴And a man who takes the woman and her mother—it [is] wickedness; they burn him and them with fire, and there is no wickedness in your midst. ¹⁵And a man who commits his intercourse with a beast is certainly put to death, and you slay the beast.¹⁶And a woman who draws near to any beast to mate with it—you have even slain the woman and the beast; they are certainly put to death; their blood [is] on them. ¹⁷And a man who takes his sister, a daughter of his father or daughter of his mother, and he has seen her nakedness, and she sees his nakedness—it is a shame; and they have been cut off before the eyes of the sons of their people; he has uncovered the nakedness of his sister; he bears his iniquity. ¹⁸And a man who lies with a sick woman and has uncovered her nakedness, her fountain he has made bare, and she has uncovered the fountain of her blood—even both of them have been cut off from the midst of their people. ¹⁹And you do not uncover the nakedness of your mother's sister and your father's sister, because his relation he has made bare; they bear their iniquity.

Bible Verse Review
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Leviticus 18:23, Exodus 22:19, Deuteronomy 27:21

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

Cross-References

Genesis 13:9
Is not all the land before you? Please be parted from me; if to the left, then I to the right; and if to the right, then I to the left."

Genesis 34:10
and you dwell with us, and the land is before you; dwell and trade [in] it, and have possessions in it."

Genesis 47:6
the land of Egypt is before you; cause your father and your brothers to dwell in the best of the land—they dwell in the land of Goshen, and if you have known, and there are among them men of ability, then you have set them [as] heads over the livestock I have."

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.