Leviticus 18:23

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Do not have sexual relations with an animal and defile yourself with it. A woman must not present herself to an animal to have sexual relations with it; that is a perversion.

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Referenced Verses

  • Exod 22:19 : 19 Whoever sacrifices to gods other than the Lord must be utterly destroyed.
  • Lev 20:15-16 : 15 If a man has sexual relations with an animal, he must surely be put to death, and you must kill the animal. 16 If a woman approaches any animal to mate with it, you must kill the woman and the animal. They must surely be put to death; their blood is upon them.
  • Lev 20:12 : 12 If a man sleeps with his daughter-in-law, both of them must surely be put to death. They have committed a perversion; their blood is upon them.
  • Deut 27:21 : 21 Cursed is anyone who has sexual relations with any animal. Then all the people shall say, 'Amen.'

Similar Verses (AI)

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  • Lev 18:16-22
    7 verses
    86%

    16Do not have sexual relations with your brother’s wife; that would dishonor your brother.

    17Do not have sexual relations with both a woman and her daughter. Do not take her son’s daughter or her daughter’s daughter to uncover their nakedness; they are her close relatives. That is wickedness.

    18Do not take your wife’s sister as a rival wife and have sexual relations with her while your wife is living.

    19Do not approach a woman to have sexual relations with her during the uncleanness of her monthly period.

    20Do not have sexual relations with your neighbor’s wife and defile yourself with her.

    21Do not give any of your children to be sacrificed to Molech, for you must not profane the name of your God. I am the LORD.

    22Do not have sexual relations with a man as one does with a woman; that is detestable.

  • Exod 22:19
    84%

    19Whoever sacrifices to gods other than the Lord must be utterly destroyed.

  • Lev 20:13-16
    4 verses
    83%

    13If a man lies with a male as one lies with a woman, both of them have committed an abomination. They must surely be put to death; their blood is upon them.

    14If a man marries a woman and her mother, it is depravity. He and they must be burned with fire, so that there will be no depravity among you.

    15If a man has sexual relations with an animal, he must surely be put to death, and you must kill the animal.

    16If a woman approaches any animal to mate with it, you must kill the woman and the animal. They must surely be put to death; their blood is upon them.

  • Lev 18:24
    82%

    24Do not defile yourselves by any of these practices, for the nations I am driving out before you have defiled themselves by all these things.

  • Deut 27:21
    81%

    21Cursed is anyone who has sexual relations with any animal. Then all the people shall say, 'Amen.'

  • Lev 19:19-20
    2 verses
    75%

    19Keep my decrees. Do not mate different kinds of animals. Do not plant your field with different kinds of seed. Do not wear clothing woven from two kinds of material.

    20If a man has sexual relations with a woman who is a slave designated for another man but who has not been redeemed or given her freedom, there must be an inquiry, but they are not to be put to death because she had not been freed.

  • Lev 20:25
    74%

    25You must distinguish between the clean animal and the unclean, and between the unclean bird and the clean. Do not make yourselves detestable by any animal, bird, or anything that moves on the ground that I have set apart as unclean for you.

  • Lev 18:26-28
    3 verses
    74%

    26But you are to keep my statutes and my judgments. Do not commit any of these abominations, whether you are a native-born or a foreigner residing among you.

    27For all these abominations were committed by the people who lived in the land before you, and the land was defiled.

    28Make sure the land does not vomit you out when you defile it, as it vomited out the nation that was there before you.

  • Deut 14:3
    73%

    3You shall not eat any detestable thing.

  • Lev 11:42-43
    2 verses
    72%

    42You must not eat any creature that moves on its belly, or walks on four legs, or has many feet. All these swarming creatures that move along the ground are detestable.

    43Do not make yourselves detestable by eating any swarming creature that moves along the ground. Do not defile yourselves with them, for you will become unclean through them.

  • Deut 17:1
    72%

    1Do not sacrifice to the LORD your God a bull or sheep with a defect or any flaw, for that would be detestable to the LORD your God.

  • Deut 23:17-18
    2 verses
    72%

    17Let him live among you wherever he chooses, in whichever town he prefers. Do not oppress him.

    18There shall be no cult prostitute among the daughters of Israel, nor shall there be a cult prostitute or sacred male among the sons of Israel.

  • Lev 15:18
    72%

    18If a man lies with a woman and there is an emission of semen, both of them must bathe with water, and they will remain unclean until evening.

  • Deut 22:5
    71%

    5A woman shall not wear men’s clothing, nor shall a man put on women’s clothing, for anyone who does such things is detestable to the LORD your God.

  • Ezek 22:11
    71%

    11One man commits an abomination with his neighbor’s wife, another defiles his daughter-in-law with wickedness, and another violates his sister, his father’s daughter.

  • Deut 22:10-11
    2 verses
    71%

    10Do not plow with an ox and a donkey yoked together.

    11Do not wear clothing woven from wool and linen together.

  • Deut 7:26
    71%

    26Do not bring any detestable thing into your house, or you will be set apart for destruction just like it. Utterly detest and abhor it, for it is set apart for destruction.

  • Lev 11:26-27
    2 verses
    70%

    26Every animal that has a divided hoof but does not chew the cud is unclean to you; whoever touches them will become unclean.

    27All animals that walk on their paws among the creatures that walk on all fours are unclean to you; whoever touches their carcasses will be unclean until the evening.

  • Lev 11:46-47
    2 verses
    70%

    46These are the laws regarding animals, birds, every living creature that moves in the water, and every creature that moves along the ground.

    47You must distinguish between the unclean and the clean, between living creatures that may be eaten and those that may not be eaten.

  • Lev 18:30
    70%

    30So keep my charge not to practice any of the abominable customs that were done before you, so you do not defile yourselves by them. I am the LORD your God.

  • Lev 27:10-11
    2 verses
    70%

    10It must not be exchanged or substituted, whether good for bad or bad for good. If it is exchanged, both the animal and its substitute shall become holy.

    11If it is an unclean animal that cannot be offered to the LORD as a sacrifice, it must be presented before the priest.

  • Lev 18:6-8
    3 verses
    70%

    6No one is to approach any close relative to have sexual relations. I am the LORD.

    7Do not dishonor your father by uncovering your mother’s nakedness. She is your mother; you must not have sexual relations with her.

    8Do not have sexual relations with your father’s wife; that would dishonor your father.

  • Lev 18:14
    69%

    14Do not dishonor your father’s brother by approaching his wife to have sexual relations; she is your aunt.

  • Deut 14:6
    69%

    6You may eat any animal that has divided hooves completely split and chews the cud.

  • Num 5:13
    69%

    13and another man has sexual relations with her secretly, and it is hidden from her husband, and she is not caught but has become defiled, even though there is no witness against her,

  • Deut 4:17
    69%

    17Or in the form of any animal on the earth, or any bird that flies in the sky,

  • Deut 17:4
    69%

    4and you are told about it and hear of it, then you must investigate it thoroughly. If it is true and confirmed that such a detestable act has been done in Israel,

  • Exod 34:3
    69%

    3No one may come up with you, and no one should be seen anywhere on the mountain; even the flocks and herds must not graze near the mountain.