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Leviticus 15:17

And any clothing or skin on which the seed comes is to be washed with water and be unclean till evening.

Bible Study Resources

Concordances:

- Nave's Topical Bible - Defilement;   Purification;   Sanitation;   The Topic Concordance - Uncleanness;  

Dictionaries:

- Bridgeway Bible Dictionary - Uncleanness;   Water;   Baker Evangelical Dictionary of Biblical Theology - Clean, Unclean;   Woman;   Fausset Bible Dictionary - Leper;   Holman Bible Dictionary - Discharge;   Leprosy;   Leviticus;   Water;   Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible - Clean and Unclean;   Medicine;   Numbers, Book of;   Seed, Seedtime;   Smith Bible Dictionary - Purification,;  

Encyclopedias:

- International Standard Bible Encyclopedia - Cleanse;   Defile;   Essenes, the;   Uncleanness;  

Parallel Translations

Hebrew Names Version
Every garment, and every skin, whereon the semen is, shall be washed with water, and be unclean until the evening.
King James Version
And every garment, and every skin, whereon is the seed of copulation, shall be washed with water, and be unclean until the even.
Lexham English Bible
And any garment and anything leather on which is an emission of semen shall be washed with water, and it shall be unclean until the evening.
New Century Version
If the fluid gets on any clothing or leather, it must be washed with water; it will be unclean until evening.
New English Translation
and he must wash in water any clothing or leather that has semen on it, and it will be unclean until evening.
Amplified Bible
'Every garment and every leather on which there is semen shall be washed with water, and shall be unclean until evening.
New American Standard Bible
'As for any garment or any leather on which there is a seminal emission, it shall be washed with water and be unclean until evening.
Geneva Bible (1587)
And euery garment, & euery skinne whereupon shalbe issue of seede, shall be euen washed with water, and be vncleane vnto the euen.
Legacy Standard Bible
As for any garment or any leather on which there is seminal emission, it shall be washed with water and be unclean until evening.
Contemporary English Version
If the semen touches anything made of cloth or leather, these must be washed, but they still remain unclean until evening.
Complete Jewish Bible
Any clothing or leather on which there is any semen is to be washed with water; it will be unclean until evening.
Darby Translation
And every garment, and every skin, whereon the seed of copulation shall be, shall be washed with water, and be unclean until the even.
Easy-to-Read Version
If the semen is on any clothing or leather, that clothing or leather must be washed with water. It will be unclean until evening.
English Standard Version
And every garment and every skin on which the semen comes shall be washed with water and be unclean until the evening.
George Lamsa Translation
And every garment or bed on which the semen has fallen shall be washed with water and be unclean until the evening.
Good News Translation
Anything made of cloth or leather on which the semen falls must be washed, and it remains unclean until evening.
Christian Standard Bible®
Any clothing or leather on which there is an emission of semen is to be washed with water, and it will remain unclean until evening.
Literal Translation
And every garment, and every skin on which the semen is, shall be washed with water, and be unclean until the evening.
Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
And all clothes, and euery skynne that is stained with soch sede, shall he wash with water, & be vncleane vntyll the euen.
American Standard Version
And every garment, and every skin, whereon is the seed of copulation, shall be washed with water, and be unclean until the even.
Bishop's Bible (1568)
And euery garment, and euery skinne wherin is such seede of sleepe, shalbe wasshed with water, and be vncleane vntyll the euen.
JPS Old Testament (1917)
And every garment, and every skin, whereon is the flow of seed, shall be washed with water, and be unclean until the even.
King James Version (1611)
And euery garment and euery skinne whereon is the seede of copulation, shall be washed with water, and be vncleane vntill the Euen.
Brenton's Septuagint (LXX)
And every garment, and every skin on which there shall be the seed of copulation shall both be washed with water, and be unclean until evening.
English Revised Version
And every garment, and every skin, whereon is the seed of copulation, shall be washed with water, and be unclean until the even.
Berean Standard Bible
Any clothing or leather on which there is an emission of semen must be washed with water, and it will remain unclean until evening.
Wycliffe Bible (1395)
He schal waische in watir the cloth `and skyn which he hath, and it schal be unclene `til to euentid.
Young's Literal Translation
`And any garment, or any skin on which there is seed of copulation, hath also been washed with water, and been unclean till the evening.
Update Bible Version
And every garment, and every skin, whereon is the semen, shall be washed with water, and be unclean until the evening.
Webster's Bible Translation
And every garment, and every skin on which is the seed of copulation, shall be washed with water, and be unclean until the evening.
World English Bible
Every garment, and every skin, whereon the semen is, shall be washed with water, and be unclean until the evening.
New King James Version
And any garment and any leather on which there is semen, it shall be washed with water, and be unclean until evening.
New Living Translation
Any clothing or leather with semen on it must be washed in water, and it will remain unclean until evening.
New Life Bible
Any clothing or leather on which the seed touches must be washed with water. It will be unclean until evening.
New Revised Standard
Everything made of cloth or of skin on which the semen falls shall be washed with water, and be unclean until the evening.
J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
And, in the case of any garment or any skin whereupon there shall come to be an outflow of seed, then shall it be washed in water, and be unclean until the evening.
Douay-Rheims Bible
The garment or skin that he weareth, he shall wash with water: and it shall be unclean until the evening.
Revised Standard Version
And every garment and every skin on which the semen comes shall be washed with water, and be unclean until the evening.
New American Standard Bible (1995)
'As for any garment or any leather on which there is seminal emission, it shall be washed with water and be unclean until evening.

Contextual Overview

1 And the Lord said to Moses and to Aaron, 2 Say to the children of Israel: If a man has an unclean flow from his flesh, it will make him unclean. 3 If the flow goes on or if the part is stopped up, to keep back the flow, he is still unclean. 4 Every bed on which he has been resting will be unclean, and everything on which he has been seated will be unclean. 5 And anyone touching his bed is to have his clothing washed and his body bathed in water and be unclean till evening. 6 And he who has been seated on anything on which the unclean man has been seated is to have his clothing washed and his body bathed in water and be unclean till evening. 7 And anyone touching the flesh of the unclean man is to have his clothing washed and his body bathed in water and be unclean till evening. 8 And if liquid from the mouth of the unclean man comes on to him who is clean, then he is to have his clothing washed and his body bathed in water and be unclean till evening. 9 And any leather seat on a horse on which the unclean man has been seated will be unclean. 10 And anyone touching anything which was under him will be unclean till the evening; anyone taking up any of these things is to have his clothing washed and his body bathed in water and be unclean till evening.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

skin: The poorer class of Arabs of our times make use of mats in their tents; and other inhabitants of these countries, who affect ancient simplicity of manners, make use of goat-skins. Dr. R. Chandler, in his Travels in Greece, tells us, that he saw some dervishes at Athens sitting on goat-skins; and that he was afterwards conducted into a room furnished in like manner, with the same kind of carpeting, where he was treated with a pipe and coffee by the chief dervish. Those that are at all acquainted with Oriental manners, in these later times, know that their dervishes - who are a sort of Mohammedan devotees, a good deal resembling the begging friars of the church or Rome affect great simplicity, and even sometimes austerity, in their dress and way of living. As these dervishes that Dr. Chandler visited sat on goat-skins, and used no other kind of carpet for the accommodation of those who visited them, so it should seem that the Israelites in the wilderness made use of skins for mattresses to lie upon, and consequently, we may equally suppose to sit upon in the day time, instead of a carpet.

Reciprocal: Leviticus 7:8 - even the priest Numbers 31:23 - ye shall make Deuteronomy 23:11 - when evening 1 Samuel 20:26 - he is not clean

Cross-References

Genesis 15:2
And Abram said, What will you give me? for I have no child and this Eliezer of Damascus will have all my wealth after me.
Genesis 15:3
And Abram said, You have given me no child, and a servant in my house will get the heritage.
Genesis 15:18
In that day the Lord made an agreement with Abram, and said, To your seed have I given this land from the river of Egypt to the great river, the river Euphrates:
Genesis 15:19
The Kenite, the Kenizzite, and the Kadmonite,
Deuteronomy 4:20
But the Lord has taken you out of the flaming fire, out of Egypt, to be to him the people of his heritage, as you are today.
Judges 6:21
Then the angel of the Lord put out the stick which was in his hand, touching the meat and the cakes with the end of it; and a flame came up out of the rock, burning up the meat and the cakes: and the angel of the Lord was seen no longer.
Judges 13:20
And when the flame went up to heaven from the altar, the angel of the Lord went up in the flame of the altar, while Manoah and his wife were looking on; and they went down on their faces to the earth.
2 Samuel 22:9
There went up a smoke from his nose, and a fire of destruction from his mouth: coals were lighted by it.
1 Chronicles 21:26
And David put up an altar there to the Lord, offering burned offerings and peace-offerings with prayers to the Lord; and he gave him an answer from heaven, sending fire on the altar of burned offering.
Isaiah 62:1
Because of Zion I will not keep quiet, and because of Jerusalem I will take no rest, till her righteousness goes out like the shining of the sun, and her salvation like a burning light.

Gill's Notes on the Bible

And every garment, and every skin,.... Or that is made of skin, which a man wears, or lies upon, see Leviticus 13:48;

whereon is the seed of copulation; or on any other, for, as Gersom says, there is the same law concerning the rest of vessels, seeing this is a principal uncleanness, and defiles vessels; and perhaps the law makes mention of these, because it is more apt to be found on them:

shall be washed with water, and be unclean until the even; see Judges 1:23.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Most of the ancient religions made a similar recognition of impurity and of the need of purfication.

Leviticus 15:17

Every garment - Compare Jude 1:23.


 
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