Discovery BoxLeviticus 20:11 
Context20:11 If a man has sexual intercourse with his father’s wife, he has exposed his father’s nakedness. 1 Both of them must be put to death; their blood guilt is on themselves. 2
Leviticus 20:14
Context20:14 If a man has sexual intercourse with both a woman and her mother, 3 it is lewdness. 4 Both he and they must be burned to death, 5 so there is no lewdness in your midst.
Leviticus 20:16
Context20:16 If a woman approaches any animal to have sexual intercourse with it, 6 you must kill the woman, and the animal must be put to death; their blood guilt is on themselves.
1 sn See the note on Lev 18:7 above.
2 tn See the note on v. 9 above.
3 tn Heb “And a man who takes a woman and her mother.” The Hebrew verb “to take” in this context means “to engage in sexual intercourse.”
4 tn Regarding “lewdness,” see the note on Lev 18:17 above.
5 tn Heb “in fire they shall burn him and them.” The active plural verb sometimes requires a passive translation (GKC 460 §144.f, g), esp. when no active plural subject has been expressed in the context. The present translation specifies “burned to death” because the traditional rendering “burnt with fire” (KJV, ASV; NASB “burned with fire”) could be understood to mean “branded” or otherwise burned, but not fatally.
