Exodus 22:19
Whoever lays with a beast shall surely be put to death.
A Conservative Version
In The King James Version
Whosoever lieth with a beast shall surely be put to death.
In Context
18Thou shall not allow a sorceress to live.
20He who sacrifices to any god, except to LORD only, shall be utterly destroyed.
Cross References
Exodus 34:15Lest thou make a covenant with the inhabitants of the land, and they play the harlot after their gods, and sacrifice to their gods, and [a man] calls thee and thou eat of his sacrifice,
Leviticus 18:23And thou shall not lay with any beast to defile thyself with it, nor shall any woman stand before a beast, to lay down with it. It is a perversion.
Leviticus 20:15And if a man lays with a beast, he shall surely be put to death, and ye shall kill the beast.
Deuteronomy 13:2and the sign or the wonder comes to pass, of which he spoke to thee, saying, Let us go after other gods, which thou have not known, and let us serve them,
Deuteronomy 17:2If there be found in the midst of thee, within any of thy gates which LORD thy God gives thee, man or woman, who does that which is evil in the sight of LORD thy God, in transgressing his covenant,
Deuteronomy 27:21Cursed be he who lays with any manner of beast. And all the people shall say, Amen.
Matthew Henry on Exodus 22:17-25
16 And if a man entice a maid that is not betrothed, and lie with her, he shall surely endow her to be his wife. 17 If her father utterly refuse to give her unto him, he shall pay money according to the dowry of virgins. 18 Thou shalt not suffer a witch to live. 19 Whosoever lieth with a beast shall surely be put to death. 20 He that sacrificeth unto any god, save unto the Lord only, he shall be utterly destroyed. 21 Thou shalt neither vex a stranger, nor oppress him: for ye were strangers in the land of Egypt. 22… Read the whole commentary →