Leviticus 18:23

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You must not have sexual relations with any animal to become defiled with it, and a woman must not stand before an animal to have sexual relations with it; it is a perversion.

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Referenced Verses

  • Exod 22:19 : 19 “Whoever has sexual relations with a beast must surely be put to death.
  • Lev 20:15-16 : 15 If a man has sexual relations with any animal, he must be put to death, and you must kill the animal. 16 If a woman approaches any animal to copulate with it, you must kill the woman, and the animal must be put to death; their blood guilt is on themselves.
  • Lev 20:12 : 12 If a man goes to bed with his daughter-in-law, both of them must be put to death. They have committed perversion; their blood guilt is on themselves.
  • Deut 27:21 : 21 ‘Cursed is the one who commits bestiality.’ Then all the people will say,‘Amen!’

Similar Verses (AI)

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  • Lev 18:16-22
    7 verses
    86%

    16You must not have sexual relations with your brother’s wife; she is your brother’s nakedness.

    17You must not have sexual relations with both a woman and her daughter; you must not take as wife either her son’s daughter or her daughter’s daughter to have sexual relations with them. They are closely related to her– it is lewdness.

    18You must not take a woman in marriage and then marry her sister as a rival wife while she is still alive, to have sexual relations with her.

    19“‘You must not approach a woman in her menstrual impurity to have sexual relations with her.

    20You must not have sexual relations with the wife of your fellow citizen to become unclean with her.

    21You must not give any of your children as an offering to Molech, so that you do not profane the name of your God. I am the LORD!

    22You must not have sexual relations with a male as one has sexual relations with a woman; it is a detestable act.

  • Exod 22:19
    84%

    19“Whoever has sexual relations with a beast must surely be put to death.

  • Lev 20:13-16
    4 verses
    83%

    13If a man goes to bed with a male as one goes to bed with a woman, the two of them have committed an abomination. They must be put to death; their blood guilt is on themselves.

    14If a man has marital relations with both a woman and her mother, it is lewdness. Both he and they must be burned to death, so there is no lewdness in your midst.

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

    16If a woman approaches any animal to copulate with it, you must kill the woman, and the animal must be put to death; their blood guilt is on themselves.

  • Lev 18:24
    82%

    24Warning against the Abominations of the Nations“‘Do not defile yourselves with any of these things, for the nations which I am about to drive out before you have been defiled with all these things.

  • Deut 27:21
    81%

    21‘Cursed is the one who commits bestiality.’ Then all the people will say,‘Amen!’

  • Lev 19:19-20
    2 verses
    75%

    19You must keep my statutes. You must not allow two different kinds of your animals to breed, you must not sow your field with two different kinds of seed, and you must not wear a garment made of two different kinds of fabric.

    20Lying with a Slave Woman“‘When a man goes to bed with a woman for intercourse, although she is a slave woman designated for another man and she has not yet been ransomed, or freedom has not been granted to her, there will be an obligation to pay compensation. They must not be put to death, because she was not free.

  • Lev 20:25
    74%

    25Therefore you must distinguish between the clean animal and the unclean, and between the unclean bird and the clean, and you must not make yourselves detestable by means of an animal or bird or anything that creeps on the ground– creatures I have distinguished for you as unclean.

  • Lev 18:26-28
    3 verses
    74%

    26You yourselves must obey my statutes and my regulations and must not do any of these abominations, both the native citizen and the resident foreigner in your midst,

    27for the people who were in the land before you have done all these abominations, and the land has become unclean.

    28So do not make the land vomit you out because you defile it just as it has vomited out the nations that were before you.

  • Deut 14:3
    73%

    3You must not eat any forbidden thing.

  • Lev 11:42-43
    2 verses
    72%

    42You must not eat anything that crawls on its belly or anything that walks on all fours or on any number of legs of all the swarming things that swarm on the land, because they are detestable.

    43Do not make yourselves detestable by any of the swarming things. You must not defile yourselves by them and become unclean by them,

  • Deut 17:1
    72%

    1You must not sacrifice to him a bull or sheep that has a blemish or any other defect, because that is considered offensive to the LORD your God.

  • Deut 23:17-18
    2 verses
    72%

    17Purity in Cultic Personnel There must never be a sacred prostitute among the young women of Israel nor a sacred male prostitute among the young men of Israel.

    18You must never bring the pay of a female prostitute or the wage of a male prostitute into the temple of the LORD your God in fulfillment of any vow, for both of these are abhorrent to the LORD your God.

  • Lev 15:18
    72%

    18As for a woman whom a man goes to bed with, then has a seminal emission, they must bathe in water and be unclean until evening.

  • Deut 22:5
    71%

    5A woman must not wear men’s clothing, nor should a man dress up in women’s clothing, for anyone who does this is offensive to the LORD your God.

  • Ezek 22:11
    71%

    11One commits an abominable act with his neighbor’s wife; another obscenely defiles his daughter-in-law; another violates his sister– his father’s daughter– within you.

  • Deut 22:10-11
    2 verses
    71%

    10You must not plow with an ox and a donkey harnessed together.

    11You must not wear clothing made with wool and linen meshed together.

  • Exod 22:31
    71%

    31“You will be holy people to me; you must not eat any meat torn by animals in the field. You must throw it to the dogs.

  • Deut 7:26
    71%

    26You must not bring any abhorrent thing into your house and thereby become an object of divine wrath along with it. You must absolutely detest and abhor it, for it is an object of divine wrath.

  • Lev 11:26-27
    2 verses
    70%

    26Inedible Land Quadrupeds“‘All animals that divide the hoof but it is not completely split in two and do not chew the cud are unclean to you; anyone who touches them becomes unclean.

    27All that walk on their paws among all the creatures that walk on all fours are unclean to you. Anyone who touches their carcass will be unclean until the evening,

  • Lev 11:46-47
    2 verses
    70%

    46This is the law of the land animals, the birds, all the living creatures that move in the water, and all the creatures that swarm on the land,

    47to distinguish between the unclean and the clean, between the living creatures that may be eaten and the living creatures that must not be eaten.’”

  • Lev 18:30
    70%

    30You must obey my charge not to practice any of the abominable statutes that have been done before you, so that you do not defile yourselves by them. I am the LORD your God.’”

  • Lev 27:10-11
    2 verses
    70%

    10He must not replace or exchange it, good for bad or bad for good, and if he does indeed exchange one animal for another animal, then both the original animal and its substitute will be holy.

    11If what is vowed is an unclean animal from which an offering must not be presented to the LORD, then he must stand the animal before the priest,

  • Lev 18:6-8
    3 verses
    70%

    6Laws of Sexual Relations“‘No man is to approach any close relative to have sexual relations with her. I am the LORD.

    7You must not expose your father’s nakedness by having sexual relations with your mother. She is your mother; you must not have sexual relations with her.

    8You must not have sexual relations with your father’s wife; she is your father’s nakedness.

  • Lev 18:14
    69%

    14You must not expose the nakedness of your father’s brother; you must not approach his wife to have marital relations with her. She is your aunt.

  • Deut 14:6
    69%

    6You may eat any animal that has hooves divided into two parts and that chews the cud.

  • Num 5:13
    69%

    13and a man goes to bed with her, for sexual relations, without her husband knowing it, and it is hidden that she has defiled herself, since there was no witness against her, nor was she caught–

  • Deut 4:17
    69%

    17any kind of land animal, any bird that flies in the sky,

  • Deut 17:4
    69%

    4When it is reported to you and you hear about it, you must investigate carefully. If it is indeed true that such a disgraceful thing is being done in Israel,

  • Exod 34:3
    69%

    3No one is to come up with you; do not let anyone be seen anywhere on the mountain; not even the flocks or the herds may graze in front of that mountain.”

  • Deut 22:30
    69%

    30(23:1) A man may not marry his father’s former wife and in this way dishonor his father.