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 20:3
Context20:3 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
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.”
