If a man lies carnally with an animal, he must be put to death. And you are also to kill the animal.
Sins against the seventh commandment are here ordered to be severely punished. These are sins which, of all others, fools are most apt to make a mock at; but God would teach those the heinousness of the guilt by the extremity of the punishment that would not otherwise be taught it. I. Lying with another man's wife was made a capital crime.
Commenting on Leviticus 20:10-21
If a man lie with a beast,.... A sin quite unnatural, exceeding shocking and detestable, forbid Lev 18:23, he shall surely be put to death: by stoning, as the Targum of Jonathan adds; and this is the death such are condemned to in the Misnah (h): and ye shall slay the beast; with clubs, as says the Targum of Jonathan; the reasons given in the...
Lev 20:9-18 Whoever cursed father or mother was to be punished with death (Lev 19:3); “His blood would be upon him.” The cursing of parents was a capital crime (see at Lev 17:4, and for the plural דּמיו Exo 22:1 and Gen 4:10), which was to return upon the doer of it, according to Gen 9:6. The same punishment was to be inflicted upon adultery (Lev 20:10, cf.
Commenting on Leviticus 20:9-18