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Leviticus 15:21

And anyone touching her bed will have to have his clothing washed and his body bathed in water and be unclean till evening.

Bible Study Resources

Concordances:

- Nave's Topical Bible - Defilement;   Menstruation;   Purification;   Sanitation;   Women;   The Topic Concordance - Sexual Activities;   Uncleanness;  

Dictionaries:

- Bridgeway Bible Dictionary - Uncleanness;   Baker Evangelical Dictionary of Biblical Theology - Clean, Unclean;   Woman;   Holman Bible Dictionary - Discharge;   Issue;   Leprosy;   Leviticus;   Water;   Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible - Clean and Unclean;   Leviticus;   Medicine;   Numbers, Book of;  

Encyclopedias:

- International Standard Bible Encyclopedia - Ablution;   The Jewish Encyclopedia - Baraita De-Niddah;   Baths, Bathing;   Pharisees;  

Parallel Translations

Hebrew Names Version
Whoever touches her bed shall wash his clothes, and bathe himself in water, and be unclean until the evening.
King James Version
And whosoever toucheth her bed shall wash his clothes, and bathe himself in water, and be unclean until the even.
Lexham English Bible
And any person who touches her bed must wash his garments, and he shall wash himself with water, and he shall be unclean until the evening.
New Century Version
Anyone who touches her bed must wash his clothes and bathe in water; that person will be unclean until evening.
New English Translation
Anyone who touches her bed must wash his clothes, bathe in water, and be unclean until evening.
Amplified Bible
'Anyone who touches her bed shall wash his clothes and bathe in water, and be unclean until evening.
New American Standard Bible
'Anyone who touches her bed shall wash his clothes and bathe in water and be unclean until evening.
Geneva Bible (1587)
Whosoeuer also toucheth her bedde, shall wash his clothes, and wash himselfe with water, & shalbe vncleane vnto the euen.
Legacy Standard Bible
And anyone who touches her bed shall wash his clothes and bathe in water and be unclean until evening.
Complete Jewish Bible
Whoever touches her bed is to wash his clothes and bathe himself in water; he will be unclean until evening.
Darby Translation
And whoever toucheth her bed shall wash his garments, and bathe in water, and be unclean until the even.
Easy-to-Read Version
Whoever touches her bed must wash their clothes and bathe in water. They will be unclean until evening.
English Standard Version
And whoever touches her bed shall wash his clothes and bathe himself in water and be unclean until the evening.
George Lamsa Translation
And whosoever touches her bed shall wash his clothes and bathe himself in water and be unclean until the evening.
Good News Translation
Any who touch her bed or anything on which she has sat must wash their clothes and take a bath, and they remain unclean until evening.
Christian Standard Bible®
Everyone who touches her bed is to wash his clothes and bathe with water, and he will remain unclean until evening.
Literal Translation
And whoever touches her bed shall wash his clothes and bathe in water, and be unclean until the evening.
Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
And that she sytteth vpo, shalbe vncleane. And who so euer toucheth hir bed, shal wash his clothes, and bathe him self with water, and be vncleane vntyll the euen.
American Standard Version
And whosoever toucheth her bed shall wash his clothes, and bathe himself in water, and be unclean until the even.
Bishop's Bible (1568)
Whosoeuer toucheth her bed, shall washe his clothes, and bathe hym selfe with water, and be vncleane vntyll the euen.
JPS Old Testament (1917)
And whosoever toucheth her bed shall wash his clothes, and bathe himself in water, and be unclean until the even.
King James Version (1611)
And whosoeuer toucheth her bed, shall wash his clothes, and bathe himselfe in water, and be vncleane vntill the Euen.
Brenton's Septuagint (LXX)
And whosoever shall touch her bed shall wash his garments, and bathe his body in water, and shall be unclean until evening.
English Revised Version
And whosoever toucheth her bed shall wash his clothes, and bathe himself in water, and be unclean until the even.
Berean Standard Bible
and anyone who touches her bed must wash his clothes and bathe with water, and he will be unclean until evening.
Wycliffe Bible (1395)
He that touchith her bed, schal waische hise clothis, and he schal be waischun in watir, and schal be vncleene `til to euentid.
Young's Literal Translation
and any one who is coming against her bed doth wash his garments, and hath bathed with water, and been unclean till the evening.
Update Bible Version
And whoever touches her bed shall wash his clothes, and bathe himself in water, and be unclean until the evening.
Webster's Bible Translation
And whoever toucheth her bed shall wash his clothes, and bathe [himself] in water, and be unclean until the evening.
World English Bible
Whoever touches her bed shall wash his clothes, and bathe himself in water, and be unclean until the evening.
New King James Version
Whoever touches her bed shall wash his clothes and bathe in water, and be unclean until evening.
New Living Translation
If any of you touch her bed, you must wash your clothes and bathe yourself in water, and you will remain unclean until evening.
New Life Bible
Whoever touches her bed must wash his clothes and wash himself in water and be unclean until evening.
New Revised Standard
Whoever touches her bed shall wash his clothes, and bathe in water, and be unclean until the evening.
J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
and whosoever toucheth her bed, shall wash his clothes and bathe in water and be unclean until the evening;
Douay-Rheims Bible
And every thing that she sleepeth on, or that she sitteth on in the days of her separation, shall be defiled.
Revised Standard Version
And whoever touches her bed shall wash his clothes, and bathe himself in water, and be unclean until the evening.
New American Standard Bible (1995)
'Anyone who touches her bed shall wash his clothes and bathe in water and be unclean until evening.

Contextual Overview

19 And if a woman has a flow of blood from her body, she will have to be kept separate for seven days, and anyone touching her will be unclean till evening. 20 And everything on which she has been resting, while she is kept separate, will be unclean, and everything on which she has been seated will be unclean. 21 And anyone touching her bed will have to have his clothing washed and his body bathed in water and be unclean till evening. 22 And anyone touching anything on which she has been seated will have to have his clothing washed and his body bathed in water and be unclean till evening. 23 Anyone touching anything on the bed or on the thing on which she has been seated, will be unclean till evening. 24 And if any man has sex relations with her so that her blood comes on him, he will be unclean for seven days and every bed on which he has been resting will be unclean. 25 And if a woman has a flow of blood for a long time, not at the time when she generally has it, or if the flow goes on longer than the normal time, she will be unclean while the flow of blood goes on, as she is at other normal times. 26 Every bed on which she has been resting will be unclean, as at the times when she normally has a flow of blood, and everything on which she has been seated will be unclean, in the same way. 27 And anyone touching these things will be unclean, and his clothing will have to be washed and his body bathed in water and he will be unclean till evening. 28 But when her flow of blood is stopped, after seven days she will be clean.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

Leviticus 15:5, Leviticus 15:6, Isaiah 22:14, 2 Corinthians 7:1, Hebrews 9:26, Revelation 7:14

Reciprocal: Leviticus 15:27 - General Leviticus 17:15 - both wash

Cross-References

Genesis 15:15
As for you, you will go to your fathers in peace; at the end of a long life you will be put in your last resting-place.
Genesis 15:19
The Kenite, the Kenizzite, and the Kadmonite,
Exodus 33:2
And I will send an angel before you, driving out the Canaanite and the Amorite and the Hittite and the Perizzite and the Hivite and the Jebusite:
Exodus 34:11
Take care to do the orders which I give you today; I will send out from before you the Amorite and the Canaanite and the Hittite and the Perizzite and the Hivite and the Jebusite.
Deuteronomy 7:1
When the Lord your God takes you into the land where you are going, which is to be your heritage, and has sent out the nations before you, the Hittites and the Girgashites and the Amorites and the Canaanites and the Perizzites and the Hivites and the Jebusites, seven nations greater and stronger than you;
Matthew 8:28
And when he had come to the other side, to the country of the Gadarenes, there came out to him from the place of the dead, two who had evil spirits, so violent that no man was able to go that way.

Gill's Notes on the Bible

And whosoever toucheth her bed,.... The same thing that is said of a profluvious man, and so in Leviticus 15:22.


 
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