Leviticus 20:15

Bible in Basic English (1941)

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

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Referenced Verses

  • Lev 18:23 : 23 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.
  • Deut 27:21 : 21 Cursed is he who has sex relations with any sort of beast. And let all the people say, So be it.
  • Exod 22:19 : 19 Any man who has sex connection with a beast is to be put to death.

Similar Verses (AI)

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  • 92%

    18 Any woman using unnatural powers or secret arts is to be put to death.

    19 Any man who has sex connection with a beast is to be put to death.

    20 Complete destruction will come on any man who makes offerings to any other god but the Lord.

  • Lev 20:16-18
    3 verses
    92%

    16 And if a woman goes near a beast and has sex relations with it, you will put an end to the woman and the beast: their blood will be on them.

    17 And if a man takes his sister, daughter of his father or his mother, and has sex relations with her and she with him, it is an act of shame: they are to be cut off before the children of their people; he has had sex relations with his sister, and his sin will be on him.

    18 And if a man has sex relations with a woman at the time when she is unwell, he has seen her fountain and she has let the fountain of her blood be uncovered, and the two of them are to be cut off from among their people.

  • Lev 20:9-14
    6 verses
    84%

    9 Every man cursing his father or his mother is certainly to be put to death; because of his curse on his father or his mother, his blood will be on him.

    10 And if a man has sex relations with another man's wife, even the wife of his neighbour, he and she are certainly to be put to death.

    11 And the man who has sex relations with his father's wife has put shame on his father: the two of them are to be put to death; their blood will be on them.

    12 And if a man has sex relations with his son's wife, the two of them are to be put to death: it is unnatural; their blood will be on them.

    13 And if a man has sex relations with a man, the two of them have done a disgusting thing: let them be put to death; their blood will be on them.

    14 And if a man takes as wife a woman and her mother, it is an act of shame; let them be burned with fire, all three of them, so that there may be no shame among you.

  • Lev 18:22-24
    3 verses
    83%

    22 You may not have sex relations with men, as you do with women: it is a disgusting thing.

    23 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.

    24 Do not make yourself unclean in any of these ways; for so have those nations whom I am driving out from before you made themselves unclean:

  • 21 Cursed is he who has sex relations with any sort of beast. And let all the people say, So be it.

  • 21 He who puts a beast to death will have to make payment for it; he who puts a man to death will himself be put to death.

  • Lev 24:16-18
    3 verses
    78%

    16 And he who says evil against the name of the Lord will certainly be put to death; he will be stoned by all the people; the man who is not of your nation and one who is an Israelite by birth, whoever says evil against the holy Name is to be put to death.

    17 And anyone who takes another's life is certainly to be put to death.

    18 And anyone wounding a beast and causing its death, will have to make payment for it: a life for a life.

  • 20 If any man has sex relations with a servant-woman who has given her word to be married to a man, and has not been made free for a price or in any other way, the thing will be looked into; but they will not be put to death because she was not a free woman.

  • 22 If a man is taken in the act of going in to a married woman, the two of them, the man as well as the woman, are to be put to death: so you are to put away the evil from Israel.

  • 75%

    28 If an ox comes to be the cause of death to a man or a woman, the ox is to be stoned, and its flesh may not be used for food; but the owner will not be judged responsible.

    29 But if the ox has frequently done such damage in the past, and the owner has had word of it and has not kept it under control, so that it has been the cause of the death of a man or woman, not only is the ox to be stoned, but its owner is to be put to death.

  • 27 Any man or woman who makes use of spirits, or who is a wonder-worker, is to be put to death: they are to be stoned with stones: their blood will be on them.

  • 20 And if a man has sex relations with the wife of his father's brother, he has put shame on his father's brother: their sin will be on them; till the day of their death they will have no children.

  • Deut 17:4-5
    2 verses
    73%

    4 If word of this comes to your ears, then let this thing be looked into with care, and if there is no doubt that it is true, and such evil has been done in Israel;

    5 Then you are to take the man or woman who has done the evil to the public place of your town, and they are to be stoned with stones till they are dead.

  • 73%

    24 Then you are to take the two of them to the doorway of the town, and have them stoned to death; the young virgin, because she gave no cry for help, though it was in the town, and the man, because he has put shame on his neighbour's wife: so you are to put away evil from among you.

    25 But if the man, meeting such a virgin in the open country, takes her by force, then only the man is to be put to death;

  • 12 He who gives a man a death-blow is himself to be put to death.

  • 25 So then, make division between the clean beast and the unclean, and between the clean bird and the unclean: do not make yourselves disgusting by any beast or bird or anything which goes flat on the earth, which has been marked by me as unclean for you.

  • 20 And you may not have sex relations with your neighbour's wife, making yourself unclean with her.

  • 72%

    21 Then he is to be stoned to death by all the men of the town: so you are to put away the evil from among you; and all Israel, hearing of it, will be full of fear.

    22 If a man does a crime for which the punishment is death, and he is put to death by hanging him on a tree;

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    15 Any man who gives a blow to his father or his mother is certainly to be put to death.

    16 Any man who gets another into his power in order to get a price for him is to be put to death, if you take him in the act.

    17 Any man cursing his father or his mother is to be put to death.

  • 4 And if the people of the land do not take note of that man when he gives his offspring to Molech, and do not put him to death,

  • 39 And if any beast which may be used for food comes to a natural death, anyone touching its dead body will be unclean till evening.

  • 17 So now put every male child to death, and every woman who has had sex relations with a man.

  • 11 And if it is any unclean beast, of which offerings are not made to the Lord, then let him take the beast before the priest;

  • 35 Then the Lord said to Moses, Certainly the man is to be put to death: let him be stoned by all the people outside the tent-circle.

  • 2 Again, say to the children of Israel, If any man of the children of Israel, or any other man living in Israel, gives his offspring to Molech, he is certainly to be put to death: he is to be stoned by the people of the land;

  • 31 You are to be holy men to me: the flesh of no animal whose death has been caused by the beasts of the field may be used for your food; it is to be given to the dogs.

  • 46 This is the law about beasts and birds and every living thing moving in the waters, and every living thing which goes flat on the earth:

  • 9 And if it is a beast of which men make offerings to the Lord, whatever any man gives of such to the Lord will be holy.

  • 10 If a man puts an ass or an ox or a sheep or any beast into the keeping of his neighbour, and it comes to death or is damaged or is taken away, without any person seeing it:

  • 13 He is not to be touched by a hand, but is to be stoned or have an arrow put through him; man or beast, he is to be put to death: at the long sounding of a horn they may come up to the mountain.

  • 36 But if it is common knowledge that the ox has frequently done such damage in the past, and its owner has not kept it under control, he will have to give ox for ox; and the dead beast will be his.