Leviticus 20:15
If a man has sexual relations with any animal, he must be put to death, and you must kill the animal.
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Referenced Verses
- Lev 18:23 : 23 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.
- Deut 27:21 : 21 ‘Cursed is the one who commits bestiality.’ Then all the people will say,‘Amen!’
- Exod 22:19 : 19 “Whoever has sexual relations with a beast must surely be put to death.
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- Exod 22:18-203 verses92%
18“You must not allow a sorceress to live.
19“Whoever has sexual relations with a beast must surely be put to death.
20“Whoever sacrifices to a god other than the LORD alone must be utterly destroyed.
- Lev 20:16-183 verses92%
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.
17“‘If a man has marital relations with his sister, whether the daughter of his father or his mother, so that he sees her nakedness and she sees his nakedness, it is a disgrace. They must be cut off in the sight of the children of their people. He has exposed his sister’s nakedness; he will bear his punishment for iniquity.
18If a man goes to bed with a menstruating woman and uncovers her nakedness, he has laid bare her fountain of blood and she has exposed the fountain of her blood, so both of them must be cut off from the midst of their people.
- Lev 20:9-146 verses84%
9Family Life and Sexual Prohibitions“‘If anyone curses his father and mother he must be put to death. He has cursed his father and mother; his blood guilt is on himself.
10If a man commits adultery with his neighbor’s wife, both the adulterer and the adulteress must be put to death.
11If a man goes to bed with his father’s wife, he has exposed his father’s nakedness. Both of them must be put to death; their blood guilt is on themselves.
12If 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.
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.
- Lev 18:22-243 verses83%
22You must not have sexual relations with a male as one has sexual relations with a woman; it is a detestable act.
23You 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.
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.
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21‘Cursed is the one who commits bestiality.’ Then all the people will say,‘Amen!’
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21One who beats an animal to death must make restitution for it, but one who beats a person to death must be put to death.
- Lev 24:16-183 verses78%
16and one who misuses the name of the LORD must surely be put to death. The whole congregation must surely stone him, whether he is a resident foreigner or a native citizen; when he misuses the Name he must be put to death.
17“‘If a man beats any person to death, he must be put to death.
18One who beats an animal to death must make restitution for it, life for life.
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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.
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22If a man is discovered in bed with a married woman both the man lying in bed with the woman and the woman herself must die; in this way you will purge evil from Israel.
- Exod 21:28-292 verses75%
28Laws about Animals“If an ox gores a man or a woman so that either dies, then the ox must surely be stoned and its flesh must not be eaten, but the owner of the ox will be acquitted.
29But if the ox had the habit of goring, and its owner was warned, and he did not take the necessary precautions, and then it killed a man or a woman, the ox must be stoned and the man must be put to death.
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27Prohibition against Spiritists and Mediums“‘A man or woman who has in them a spirit of the dead or a familiar spirit must be put to death. They must pelt them with stones; their blood guilt is on themselves.’”
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20If a man goes to bed with his aunt, he has exposed his uncle’s nakedness; they must bear responsibility for their sin, they will die childless.
- Deut 17:4-52 verses73%
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,
5you must bring to your city gates that man or woman who has done this wicked thing– that very man or woman– and you must stone that person to death.
- Deut 22:24-252 verses73%
24you must bring the two of them to the gate of that city and stone them to death, the young woman because she did not cry out though in the city and the man because he violated his neighbor’s fiancée; in this way you will purge evil from among you.
25But if the man came across the engaged woman in the field and overpowered her and raped her, then only the rapist must die.
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12Personal Injuries“Whoever strikes someone so that he dies must surely be put to death.
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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.
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20You must not have sexual relations with the wife of your fellow citizen to become unclean with her.
- Deut 21:21-222 verses72%
21Then all the men of his city must stone him to death. In this way you will purge out wickedness from among you, and all Israel will hear about it and be afraid.
22Disposition of a Criminal’s Remains If a person commits a sin punishable by death and is executed, and you hang the corpse on a tree,
- Exod 21:15-173 verses72%
15“Whoever strikes his father or his mother must surely be put to death.
16“Whoever kidnaps someone and sells him, or is caught still holding him, must surely be put to death.
17“Whoever treats his father or his mother disgracefully must surely be put to death.
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4If, however, the people of the land shut their eyes to that man when he gives some of his children to Molech so that they do not put him to death,
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39Edible Land Quadrupeds“‘Now if an animal that you may eat dies, whoever touches its carcass will be unclean until the evening.
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17Now therefore kill every boy, and kill every woman who has been intimate with a man in bed.
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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,
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35Then the LORD said to Moses,“The man must surely be put to death; the whole community must stone him with stones outside the camp.”
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2“You are to say to the Israelites,‘Any man from the Israelites or from the resident foreigners who live in Israel who gives any of his children to Molech must be put to death; the people of the land must pelt him with stones.
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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.
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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,
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9Redemption of Vowed Animals“‘If what is vowed is a kind of animal from which an offering may be presented to the LORD, anything which he gives to the LORD from this kind of animal will be holy.
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10If a man gives his neighbor a donkey or an ox or a sheep or any beast to keep, and it dies or is injured or is carried away without anyone seeing it,
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13No hand will touch him– but he will surely be stoned or shot through, whether a beast or a human being; he must not live.’ When the ram’s horn sounds a long blast they may go up on the mountain.”
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36Or if it is known that the ox had the habit of goring, and its owner did not take the necessary precautions, he must surely pay ox for ox, and the dead animal will become his.