15And if a man lie with a beast, he shall surely be put to death: and ye shall slay the beast.
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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.
Cursed be he that lieth with any manner of beast. And all the people shall say, Amen.
Whosoever lieth with a beast shall surely be put to death.
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…
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