Exodus 22:19
New International Version
“Anyone who has sexual relations with an animal is to be put to death.

New Living Translation
“Anyone who has sexual relations with an animal must certainly be put to death.

English Standard Version
“Whoever lies with an animal shall be put to death.

Berean Standard Bible
Whoever lies with an animal must surely be put to death.

King James Bible
Whosoever lieth with a beast shall surely be put to death.

New King James Version
“Whoever lies with an animal shall surely be put to death.

New American Standard Bible
“Whoever has sexual intercourse with an animal must be put to death.

NASB 1995
“Whoever lies with an animal shall surely be put to death.

NASB 1977
“Whoever lies with an animal shall surely be put to death.

Legacy Standard Bible
“Whoever lies with an animal shall surely be put to death.

Amplified Bible
“Whoever lies with an animal must be put to death.

Christian Standard Bible
“Whoever has sexual intercourse with an animal must be put to death.

Holman Christian Standard Bible
Whoever has sexual intercourse with an animal must be put to death.”

American Standard Version
Whosoever lieth with a beast shall surely be put to death.

Aramaic Bible in Plain English
And everyone whoever will have sexual intercourse with an animal shall surely be killed.

Brenton Septuagint Translation
Every one that lies with a beast ye shall surely put to death.

Contemporary English Version
Death is the punishment for having sex with an animal.

Douay-Rheims Bible
Whosoever copulateth with a beast shall be put to death.

English Revised Version
Whosoever lieth with a beast shall surely be put to death.

GOD'S WORD® Translation
"Whoever has sexual intercourse with an animal must be put to death.

Good News Translation
"Put to death any man who has sexual relations with an animal.

International Standard Version
"Whoever has sexual relations with an animal is certainly to be put to death.

JPS Tanakh 1917
Whosoever lieth with a beast shall surely be put to death.

Literal Standard Version
Whoever lies with a beast is certainly put to death.

Majority Standard Bible
Whoever lies with an animal must surely be put to death.

New American Bible
Anyone who lies with an animal shall be put to death.

NET Bible
"Whoever has sexual relations with a beast must surely be put to death.

New Revised Standard Version
Whoever lies with an animal shall be put to death.

New Heart English Bible
"Whoever has sex with an animal shall surely be put to death.

Webster's Bible Translation
Whoever lieth with a beast shall surely be put to death.

World English Bible
“Whoever has sex with an animal shall surely be put to death.

Young's Literal Translation
'Whoever lieth with a beast is certainly put to death.

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Context
Laws of Social Responsibility
18You must not allow a sorceress to live. 19Whoever lies with an animal must surely be put to death. 20If anyone sacrifices to any god other than the LORD alone, he must be set apart for destruction.…

Cross References
Leviticus 18:23
You must not lie carnally with any animal, thus defiling yourself with it; a woman must not stand before an animal to mate with it; that is a perversion.

Leviticus 20:15
If a man lies carnally with an animal, he must be put to death. And you are also to kill the animal.

Leviticus 20:16
If a woman approaches any animal to mate with it, you must kill both the woman and the animal. They must surely be put to death; their blood is upon them.

Deuteronomy 27:21
Cursed is he who lies with any animal.' And let all the people say, 'Amen!'


Treasury of Scripture

Whoever lies with a beast shall surely be put to death.

Leviticus 18:23,25
Neither shalt thou lie with any beast to defile thyself therewith: neither shall any woman stand before a beast to lie down thereto: it is confusion…

Leviticus 20:15,16
And if a man lie with a beast, he shall surely be put to death: and ye shall slay the beast…

Deuteronomy 27:21
Cursed be he that lieth with any manner of beast. And all the people shall say, Amen.

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Exodus 22
1. Of Theft
5. Of damage
7. Of trespasses
14. Of borrowing
16. Of fornication
18. Of witchcraft
19. Of bestiality
20. Of idolatry
21. Of strangers, widows, and fatherless
25. Of usury
26. Of pledges
28. Of reverence to magistrates
29. Of the first fruits
31. Of torn flesh














(19) The sin here denounced was common among the Canaanitish nations (Leviticus 18:24), and not unknown in Egypt (Herod. ii. 46). It was therefore necessary that God's abhorrence of it should be distinctly declared to Israel.

Verse 19. - Law against unnatural crime. The abomination here mentioned is said to have prevailed in Egypt, and even to have formed part of the Egyptian religion (Herod. 2:46; Strab. 17. p. 802; Clem. A1. Cohort. ad Gentes, p. 9; etc.). Though regarded by the Greeks and Romans as disgusting and contemptible, it does not seem to have been made a crime by any of their legislators. It was, however, condemned by the Gentoo laws and by the laws of Menu (11:17).

Parallel Commentaries ...


Hebrew
Whoever
כָּל־ (kāl-)
Noun - masculine singular construct
Strong's 3605: The whole, all, any, every

has sexual relations
שֹׁכֵ֥ב (šō·ḵêḇ)
Verb - Qal - Participle - masculine singular
Strong's 7901: To lie down

with
עִם־ (‘im-)
Preposition
Strong's 5973: With, equally with

an animal
בְּהֵמָ֖ה (bə·hê·māh)
Noun - feminine singular
Strong's 929: A dumb beast, any large quadruped, animal

must surely be put to death.
מ֥וֹת (mō·wṯ)
Verb - Qal - Infinitive absolute
Strong's 4191: To die, to kill


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