And if a man lie with a beast, he shall surely be put to death: and ye shall slay the beast.
Leviticus 20:15 stands in Leviticus 18-20, within Leviticus 5-23 which deals largely with laws about sacrifices and offerings, the consecration and duties of the priests, and the various feasts of the year. The laws including this verse stand in contrast to the customs of the nations around Israel, and the chapter exposes the evils practiced by the nations that lived in Canaan. Those nations had given themselves up to pagan abominations with Satan ruling through the flesh. God in mercy extended hope to them for four hundred years, sending His servants to sojourn among them to win them to the right way, but they filled up their cup with iniquity, so it was a blessing to future generations to blot them from the earth.
The verse forbids sexual relations between a man and an animal and requires that both the man and the beast be put to death. The stringent death law was given because the heathen were actually practicing such cohabitation and there was danger the custom would be brought among the Hebrews. The chapter treats incestuous unions and other violations of prohibited relationships as grounds for civil penalties under Israel's theocracy. The prohibitions on sexual relationships in Leviticus 20:10-21 remain in force because they are based on moral considerations. These laws help explain why Deuteronomy 23:2 barred certain offspring from entering the assembly, likely meaning children of incest or marriages forbidden by affinity rather than all children born outside wedlock.
Such conduct between humans and animals is debased and drives humanity downward into degeneracy and degradation. The law proves that such man-beast unions took place, and that such crosses could propagate in that age even though they cannot now, because men and animals just after the Flood had stronger physical vitality than the weakened, degenerating race of today. Monkeys in all their varieties were not created by God as a cartoon of man His masterpiece and are not proof that man ascended from lower forms; sin through these forbidden unions, not evolution and not creation, is responsible for the monkey.
Leviticus 20:15 stands in Leviticus 18-20, within Leviticus 5-23 which deals largely with laws about sacrifices and offerings, the consecration and duties of the priests, and the various feasts of the year. The laws including this verse stand in contrast to the customs of the nations around Israel, and the chapter exposes the evils practiced by the nations that lived in Canaan. Those nations had given themselves up to pagan abominations with Satan ruling through the flesh. God in mercy extended hope to them for four hundred years, sending His servants to sojourn among them to win them to the right way, but they filled up their cup with iniquity, so it was a blessing to future generations to blot them from the earth.
The verse forbids sexual relations between a man and an animal and requires that both the man and the beast be put to death. The stringent death law was given because the heathen were actually practicing such cohabitation and there was danger the custom would be brought among the Hebrews. The chapter treats incestuous unions and other violations of prohibited relationships as grounds for civil penalties under Israel's theocracy. The prohibitions on sexual relationships in Leviticus 20:10-21 remain in force because they are based on moral considerations. These laws help explain why Deuteronomy 23:2 barred certain offspring from entering the assembly, likely meaning children of incest or marriages forbidden by affinity rather than all children born outside wedlock.
Such conduct between humans and animals is debased and drives humanity downward into degeneracy and degradation. The law proves that such man-beast unions took place, and that such crosses could propagate in that age even though they cannot now, because men and animals just after the Flood had stronger physical vitality than the weakened, degenerating race of today. Monkeys in all their varieties were not created by God as a cartoon of man His masterpiece and are not proof that man ascended from lower forms; sin through these forbidden unions, not evolution and not creation, is responsible for the monkey.