18:23 You must not have sexual intercourse34 with any animal to become defiled with it, and a woman must not stand before an animal to have sexual intercourse with it;35 it is a perversion.36
tn The Hebrew term תֶּבֶל (tevel, “perversion”) derives from the verb “to mix; to confuse” and therefore refers to illegitimate mixtures of species or violation of the natural order of things.