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.
a. NLT: “A man
must not defile himself by having sex with an animal. And a woman must not
offer herself to a male animal to have intercourse with it. This is a perverse
act.
b. NIV: “ ‘Do not
have sexual relations with an animal and defile yourself with it. A woman must
not present herself to an animal to have sexual relations with it; that is a
perversion.
c. Amplified
Bible: Neither shall you lie with any beast and defile yourself with it;
neither shall any woman yield herself to a beast to lie with it; it is
confusion, perversion, and degradedly carnal.
d. Septuagint: Neither
shalt thou lie with any quadruped for copulation, to be polluted with it:
neither shall a woman present herself before any quadruped to have connexion
with it; for it is an abomination.
e. Stone Edition
Torah/Writings/Prophets: Do not lie with any animal to be contaminated with it;
a woman shall not stand before an animal for mating, it is perversion.
1. “Neither shalt thou lie with any
beast to defile thyself therewith…”
a. neither shalt
thou [5414 * nathan] Strong: a primitive
root; to give, used with greatest latitude of application (put, make,
etc.):--add, apply, appoint, ascribe, assign, X avenge, X be ((healed)),
bestow, bring (forth, hither), cast, cause, charge, come, commit, consider,
count, + cry, deliver (up), direct, distribute, do, X doubtless, X without
fail, fasten, frame, X get, give (forth, over, up), grant, hang (up), X have, X
indeed, lay (unto charge, up), (give) leave, lend, let (out), + lie, lift up,
make, + O that, occupy, offer, ordain, pay, perform, place, pour, print, X pull
, put (forth), recompense, render, requite, restore, send (out), set (forth),
shew, shoot forth (up), + sing, + slander, strike, (sub-)mit, suffer, X surely,
X take, thrust, trade, turn, utter, + weep, + willingly, + withdraw, + would
(to) God, yield.]
b. lie [7903 *
shkobeth][Strong: a (sexual) lying with…from 7901 a
primitive root; to lie down (for rest, sexual connection, decease or any other
purpose):--X at all, cast down, ((lover-))lay (self) (down), (make to) lie
(down, down to sleep, still with), lodge, ravish, take rest, sleep, stay.][AMG,
Complete Word Study Dictionary Old Testament: A feminine noun referring to
intercourse; copulation. It refers to the act of sexual intercourse (Leviticus
18:20; Numbers 5:20). It also refers to intercourse or copulation with an
animal which was considered perversion and punishable by death. (Leviticus
18:23; 20:15)]
c. beast [929 * bhemah][Strong:
from an unused root (probably meaning to be mute); properly, a dumb beast;
especially any large quadruped or animal (often collective):--beast, cattle.][AMG,
Complete Word Study Dictionary Old Testament: A feminine noun, usually
functioning collectively, meaning animals, beasts, livestock, cattle…]
d. defile [2930 *
tame’][Strong: a primitive root; to be foul, especially in a ceremial or moral
sense (contaminated):--defile (self), pollute (self), be (make, make self,
pronounce) unclean, X utterly.]
2. “…neither shall any woman stand
before a beast to lie down thereto: it is confusion.”
a. woman [802 *
‘ishshah][Strong: irregular plural,
nashiym {naw-sheem'}; a woman (used in the same wide sense as ''enowsh' (582)):--(adulter)ess,
each, every, female, X many, + none, one, + together, wife, woman. Often
unexpressed in English.]
b. stand [5975 * ‘amad]
[Strong: a primitive root; to stand, in various relations (literal and
figurative, intransitive and transitive):--abide (behind), appoint, arise,
cease, confirm, continue, dwell, be employed, endure, establish, leave, make,
ordain, be (over), place, (be) present (self), raise up, remain, repair, +
serve, set (forth, over, -tle, up), (make to, make to be at a, with-)stand (by,
fast, firm, still, up), (be at a) stay (up), tarry.]
c, before [6440 *
paniym] [Strong: a primitive root; to stand, in various relations (literal and figurative,
intransitive and transitive):--abide (behind), appoint, arise, cease, confirm,
continue, dwell, be employed, endure, establish, leave, make, ordain, be
(over), place, (be) present (self), raise up, remain, repair, + serve, set
(forth, over, -tle, up), (make to, make to be at a, with-)stand (by, fast,
firm, still, up), (be at a) stay (up), tarry.]
d. beast [929 * behemah]
[Strong: from an unused root (probably meaning to be mute); properly, a dumb
beast; especially any large quadruped or animal (often collective):--beast,
cattle.]
e. to lie down [7250
* raba’] [Strong: a primitive root; to squat or lie out flat, i.e.
(specifically) in copulation:--let gender, lie down.]
f. confusion [8397
* tebel] [Strong: apparently from 1101, mixture, i.e. unnatural
bestiality:--confusion.]
1). The Canaanites had
customs or ordinances probably allowing this practice.
a). Leviticus 18:3
After the doings of the land of Egypt, wherein ye dwelt, shall ye not do: and
after the doings of the land of Canaan, whither I bring you, shall ye not do:
neither shall ye walk in their ordinances.
b). Leviticus
18:26-30 Ye shall therefore keep my statutes and my judgments, and shall not
commit any of these abominations; neither any of your own nation, nor any
stranger that sojourneth among you:
18:27 (For all
these abominations have the men of the land done, which were before you, and
the land is defiled;)
18:28 That the
land spue not you out also, when ye defile it, as it spued out the nations that
were before you.
18:29 For
whosoever shall commit any of these abominations, even the souls that commit
them shall be cut off from among their people.
18:30 Therefore
shall ye keep mine ordinance, that ye commit not any one of these abominable
customs, which were committed before you, and that ye defile not yourselves
therein: I am the Lord your God.
c. The Hebrew word
for “ordinance” in both of these passages is the same Hebrew word.
d. ordinance [4931 * mishmereth] [Strong: fem. of 4929;
watch, i.e. the act (custody), or (concr.) the sentry, the post; obj.
preservation, or (concr.) safe; fig. observance, i.e. (abstr.) duty or (obj.) a
usage or party:--charge, keep, or to be kept, office, ordinance, safeguard,
ward, watch.]
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