Leviticus 20:16 - New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

¹⁶ If a woman approaches any animal and has sexual relations with it, you shall kill the woman and the animal; they shall be put to death; their bloodguilt is upon them.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

¹⁶ And if a woman approach unto any beast, and lie down thereto, thou shalt kill the woman, and the beast: they shall surely be put to death; their blood shall be upon them.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

¹⁶ If a woman approaches any beast and lies carnally with it, you shall [stone] the woman and the beast; they shall surely be put to death; their blood is upon them.

American Standard Version (1901)

¹⁶ And if a woman approach unto any beast, and lie down thereto, thou shalt kill the woman, and the beast: they shall surely be put to death; their blood shall be upon them.

Common English Bible

¹⁶ If a woman approaches any kind of animal to mate with it, you must kill the woman and the animal. They must be executed; their blood is on their own heads.

Catholic Public Domain Version

¹⁶ The woman who will have lain under any animal at all shall be destroyed together with it. So let their blood be upon them.

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

¹⁶ The woman that shall lie under any beast, shall be killed together with the same. Their blood be upon them.

Leviticus 20:16 Cross References

Exodus 19:13

No hand shall touch them, but they shall be stoned or shot with arrows; whether animal or human being, they shall not live.’ When the trumpet sounds a long blast, they may go up on the mountain.”

Exodus 21:28

“When an ox gores a man or a woman to death, the ox shall be stoned, and its flesh shall not be eaten, but the owner of the ox shall not be liable.

Exodus 21:32

If the ox gores a male or female slave, the owner shall pay to the slaveowner thirty shekels of silver, and the ox shall be stoned.

Exodus 22:19

“Whoever has intercourse with an animal shall be put to death.

Leviticus 18:23

You shall not have sexual relations with any animal and defile yourself with it, nor shall any woman give herself to an animal to have sexual relations with it; it is perversion.

Leviticus 20:15

If a man has sexual relations with an animal, he shall be put to death, and you shall kill the animal.

Leviticus 20:17

“If a man takes his sister, a daughter of his father or a daughter of his mother, and sees her nakedness, and she sees his nakedness, it is a disgrace, and they shall be cut off in the sight of their people; he has uncovered his sister’s nakedness; he shall be subject to punishment.

Hebrews 12:20

(For they could not endure the order that was given, “If even an animal touches the mountain, it shall be stoned to death.”