Leviticus 18:23

18:23 You must not have sexual intercourse ¹  with any animal to become defiled with it, and a woman must not stand before an animal to have sexual intercourse with it; ²  it is a perversion. ³ 

Leviticus 20:3

20:3 I myself will set my face ⁴  against that man and cut him off from the midst of his people, ⁵  because he has given some of his children to Molech and thereby defiled my sanctuary and profaned my holy name. ⁶ 

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¹ tn See the note on v. 20 above.

² tn Heb “to copulate with it” (cf. Lev 20:16).

³ tn The Hebrew term תֶּבֶל (tevel, “perversion”) derives from the verb “to mix; to confuse” and therefore refers to illegitimate mixtures of species or violation of the natural order of things.

⁴ tn Heb “And I, I shall give my faces.”

⁵ sn On the “cut off” penalty see the notes on Lev 7:20 and 17:4.

⁶ tn Heb “for the sake of defiling my sanctuary and to profane my holy name.”