Discovery BoxLeviticus 18:23 
Context18:23 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 18:25
Context18:25 Therefore 4 the land has become unclean and I have brought the punishment for its iniquity upon it, 5 so that the land has vomited out its inhabitants.
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.” The Hebrew conjunction ו (vav, “and”) can be considered to have resultative or even inferential force here.
5 tn Heb “and I have visited its [punishment for] iniquity on it.” See the note on Lev 17:16 above.
