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A Biblical Catechism on Sex and Marriage: Sexual Sins: Bestiality

[This post continues a series of posts entitled 'A Biblical Catechism on Sex and Marriage'.  The intention is to provide basic material for further instruction by a trusted teacher of God's Word in a church that is committed to Biblical authority.  The Church’s mission is to invite people to live under God’s righteous rule.]


Question 3. What sexual sins are mentioned in the Bible?

Answer: Any sex outside of marriage between a man and a woman is sin.

Comment 1: The following sexual sins can be found in the Bible:

[Previous posts on adultery and sexual immorality]

     Bestiality

Leviticus 18:23 And you shall not lie with any animal and so make yourself unclean with it, neither shall any woman give herself to an animal to lie with it: it is perversion.

Leviticus 20:15-16 If a man lies with an animal, he shall surely be put to death, and you shall kill the animal.  16 If a woman approaches any animal and lies with it, you shall kill the woman and the animal; they shall surely be put to death; their blood is upon them.


Deuteronomy 27:21 "'Cursed be anyone who lies with any kind of animal.' And all the people shall say, 'Amen.'

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