Leviticus 20:15 — KJV with Strong's Concordance

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

Leviticus 20:15 —

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Cross-References

From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Leviticus 18:23
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.
Deuteronomy 27:21
Cursed be he that lieth with any manner of beast. And all the people shall say, Amen.
Exodus 22:19
Whosoever lieth with a beast shall surely be put to death.

Topics

Adultery Bestiality Copulation Hygiene Lasciviousness Lust Purification Sanitation

Commentary

Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)

(vv. 10-21)

Sins against the seventh commandment are here ordered to be severely punished. These are sins which, of all others, fools are most apt to make a mock at; but God would teach those the heinousness of the guilt by the extremity of the punishment that would not otherwise be taught it. I. Lying with another man’s wife was made a capital crime. The adulterer and the adulteress that had joined in the si…

Robert Jamieson, A. R. Fausset, David Brown’s Jamieson-Fausset-Brown Commentary (1871)

(vv. 15)

7-19. Sanctify yourselves therefore, and be ye holy--The minute specification of the incestuous and unnatural crimes here enumerated shows their sad prevalence amongst the idolatrous nations around, and the extreme proneness of the Israelites to follow the customs of their neighbors. It is to be understood, that, whenever mention is made that the offender was “to be put to death” without describin…