If a man has sexual relations with his daughter-in-law, both of them are to be put to death. What they have done is a perversion; their blood will be on their own heads. The death penalty for sex with the daughter-in-law (Leviticus 18:15) is also described as a perversion — tevel, the confusion of categories. The perversion designation for both the daughter-in-law violation and the bestiality violation (verse 15) identifies these as violations of the created order's proper categories. The blood-on-their-own-heads formula closes the penalty statement as it closed the adultery and father's-wife violations.

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