Exodus 22:19
Whoever has sexual intercourse with an animal shall be put to death.
Catholic Public Domain Version
In The King James Version
Whosoever lieth with a beast shall surely be put to death.
In Context
18You shall not permit practitioners of the black arts to live.
20Whoever immolates to gods, other than to the Lord, shall be killed.
Cross References
Exodus 34:15Do not enter into a pact with the men of those regions, lest, when they will have fornicated with their gods and worshiped their idols, someone might call upon you to eat from what was immolated.
Leviticus 18:23You shall not commit sexual acts with any animal, nor shall you be defiled by it. A woman shall not lie down with a beast, nor commit sexual acts with it; for this is wickedness.
Leviticus 20:15Whoever will have committed sexual acts with any animal or cattle, he shall die a death. Likewise, you shall slay the beast.
Deuteronomy 13:2and if what he has spoken happens, and he says to you, ‘Let us go and follow strange gods,’ which you have not known, ‘and let us serve them,’
Deuteronomy 17:2When there will have been found among you, within one of your gates which the Lord your God will give to you, a man or a woman who is doing evil in the sight of the Lord your God, and who is transgressing his covenant,
Deuteronomy 27:21Cursed be he who lies with any 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 →