Verse Lens · Context pointer
Leviticus 20:16 Explained in Context
Use this verse as a doorway into the larger passage—not as an isolated saying.
Verse 16. 16And 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.
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Role in This Section
This verse assigns death to a woman and the animal in the corresponding case.
Read It With
- Leviticus 20:10-21
Use 20:10-21 as the reading frame for Leviticus 20:16. The verse assigns death to a woman and the animal in the corresponding case, while the complete unit shows that Adultery, kinship violations, male-male intercourse, intercourse with a woman and her mother, bestiality, menstruation, and other family relations receive varied death, cutting-off, burning, or childlessness sanctions.
Why It Needs Context
Leviticus 20:16 assigns death to a woman and the animal in the corresponding case; reading it alone would sever that detail from the actors, category, and outcome in Leviticus 20:10-21.
Continue in Context
The full thought-unit study remains the final contextual authority for this Verse Lens.
Read Leviticus 20:10-21 — Sexual prohibitions return with severe penalties and childlessness formulasSources used for this context pointer
How certain is this explanation? strong
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Biblical text
King James (Authorized) Version — eng-kjv2006
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USFM archive eng-kjv2006_usfm.zip; source files dated 2026-08-19; downloaded 2026-08-24; archive SHA-256 aec1b3b26c622fd3d963d2bbac963016b9513246ffbfa20da00bb100372ea007; normalized corpus SHA-256 09aef51d90488aa7b9722b3fd9a93f4b25f6bf2064c5fd798fb39673c300ddf2.
Supports: Exact reader-facing KJV wording, paragraph metadata, supplied-word markup, and complete verse coverage for this thought unit.
Exact location: Leviticus 20:10-21, pinned eng-kjv2006 USFM corpus
Open source ↗hebrew text and morphology
Open Scriptures Hebrew Bible: Leviticus
Open Scriptures
Open Scriptures, release 2.2
Supports: Hebrew wording, morphology, ritual and legal vocabulary, names, clause relationships, KJV language controls, and translation limits.
Exact location: Open Scriptures MorphHB v.2.2, commit 6a5db284c715c18b239422e57bb89684e6a19f00, wlc/Lev.xml, Masoretic words and morphology for 20:10-21
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