Leviticus 20:15

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

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Referenced Verses

  • Lev 18:23 : 23 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.
  • Deut 27:21 : 21 Cursed is anyone who has sexual relations with any animal. Then all the people shall say, 'Amen.'
  • Exod 22:19 : 19 Whoever sacrifices to gods other than the Lord must be utterly destroyed.

Similar Verses (AI)

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  • Exod 22:18-20
    3 verses
    92%

    18Anyone who has sexual relations with an animal must surely be put to death.

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

    20You must not mistreat or oppress a foreigner, for you were foreigners in the land of Egypt.

  • Lev 20:16-18
    3 verses
    92%

    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.

    17If a man marries his sister, whether she is the daughter of his father or the daughter of his mother, and they see each other's nakedness, it is a disgrace. They shall be cut off in the sight of their people; he has uncovered his sister's nakedness and shall bear his iniquity.

    18If a man lies with a woman during her menstrual impurity and uncovers her nakedness, he has exposed her source of blood, and she has uncovered the source of her blood. Both of them shall be cut off from among their people.

  • Lev 20:9-14
    6 verses
    84%

    9Anyone who curses his father or mother shall surely be put to death. He has cursed his father or mother; his blood is upon him.

    10If a man commits adultery with another man's wife, both the adulterer and the adulteress must surely be put to death.

    11If a man sleeps with his father's wife, he has uncovered his father's nakedness. Both of them shall surely be put to death; their blood is upon them.

    12If 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.

    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.

  • Lev 18:22-24
    3 verses
    83%

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

    23Do 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.

    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
    82%

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

  • Lev 24:21
    80%

    21Whoever kills an animal must make restitution, but whoever kills a person must be put to death.

  • Lev 24:16-18
    3 verses
    78%

    16Whoever blasphemes the name of the LORD must surely be put to death. The entire assembly shall stone him. Whether a foreigner or a native-born, if he blasphemes the Name, he must be put to death.

    17Anyone who takes the life of another person must be put to death.

    18Whoever kills an animal must make restitution—life for life.

  • Lev 19:20
    77%

    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.

  • Deut 22:22
    77%

    22If a man is found lying with another man’s wife, both the man and the woman who were together must die. You must purge the evil from Israel.

  • Exod 21:28-29
    2 verses
    75%

    28If an ox gores a man or woman to death, the ox must be stoned to death, and its meat must not be eaten. But the owner of the ox will not be held liable.

    29But if the ox has a habit of goring, and it has been known to its owner for some time but he has not kept it confined, and it kills a man or a woman, the ox must be stoned, and its owner must also be put to death.

  • Lev 20:27
    74%

    27If a man or a woman has a spirit of divination or is a medium, they must be put to death. They are to be stoned, and their blood is upon them.

  • Lev 20:20
    74%

    20If a man lies with his aunt, he has uncovered his uncle's nakedness. They shall bear their sin; they shall die childless.

  • Deut 17:4-5
    2 verses
    73%

    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,

    5take the man or woman who has committed this evil deed out to your city gates and stone that person to death.

  • Deut 22:24-25
    2 verses
    73%

    24then you shall bring both of them to the gate of that city and stone them to death: the young woman because she did not cry out in the city, and the man because he violated another man’s wife. You must purge the evil from among you.

    25But if a man finds a betrothed young woman in the countryside, and forces her and lies with her, only the man who has done this shall die.

  • Exod 21:12
    72%

    12Anyone who strikes a man and kills him shall surely be put to death.

  • Lev 20:25
    72%

    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 18:20
    72%

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

  • Deut 21:21-22
    2 verses
    72%

    21Then all the men of his city shall stone him to death. You must purge the evil from among you, and all Israel will hear of it and be afraid.

    22If a man guilty of a capital offense is put to death and you hang his body on a tree,

  • Exod 21:15-17
    3 verses
    72%

    15Anyone who strikes his father or mother shall surely be put to death.

    16Anyone who kidnaps another person, whether he sells him or the victim is still in his possession, shall surely be put to death.

    17Anyone who curses his father or mother shall surely be put to death.

  • Lev 20:4
    72%

    4But if the people of the land deliberately close their eyes to that man when he gives his children to Molech, and they fail to put him to death,

  • Lev 11:39
    72%

    39If any animal that you are allowed to eat dies, anyone who touches its carcass will be unclean until the evening.

  • Num 31:17
    72%

    17Now, kill every male among the children, and kill every woman who has had sexual relations with a man.

  • Lev 27:11
    71%

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

  • Num 15:35
    71%

    35The Lord said to Moses, 'The man must be put to death. The whole assembly is to stone him outside the camp.'

  • Lev 20:2
    71%

    2Say to the Israelites, 'Any man from the Israelites or from the foreigners residing in Israel who gives any of his children to Molech shall surely be put to death. The people of the land shall stone him with stones.

  • Lev 11:46
    70%

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

  • Lev 27:9
    70%

    9If it is an animal that can be offered as an offering to the LORD, whatever is given to the LORD shall be holy.

  • Exod 22:10
    70%

    10the issue between them will be settled by an oath before the Lord that the neighbor has not taken the other’s property. The owner must accept this, and no restitution is required.

  • Exod 19:13
    70%

    13No hand is to touch it; anyone who touches it must be stoned or shot with arrows. Whether animal or human, they must not be allowed to live.' Only when the ram’s horn sounds a long blast may they go up the mountain.

  • Exod 21:36
    70%

    36However, if it was known that the ox was prone to goring in the past and its owner did not keep it confined, he must pay compensation—an ox for an ox—and the dead animal will be his.