“Neither shalt thou lie with any beast to defile thyself therewith: neither shall any woman stand before a beast to lie down thereto: it is confusion.”
Do not have sexual relations with an animal and defile yourself with it. A woman must not present herself to an animal to have sexual relations with it; that is a perversion. The prohibition on bestiality — both for men and for women — is called a perversion — tevel, a confusion or mixing that violates proper categories. The dual prohibition (for men and for women) communicates the comprehensive nature of the covenant's sexual ethics: the protection of proper sexual categories applies equally to both sexes.
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