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Complete Jewish Bible

Leviticus 18:19

You are not to approach a woman in order to have sexual relations with her when she is unclean from her time of niddah.

Bible Study Resources

Concordances:

- Nave's Topical Bible - Copulation;   The Topic Concordance - Sexual Activities;  

Dictionaries:

- American Tract Society Bible Dictionary - Affinity;   Marriage;   Bridgeway Bible Dictionary - Ethics;   Baker Evangelical Dictionary of Biblical Theology - Clean, Unclean;   Immorality, Sexual;   Worship;   Holman Bible Dictionary - Bastard;   Incest;   Leviticus;   Molech;   Naked;   Pentateuch;   Sex, Biblical Teaching on;   Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible - Canon of the Old Testament;   Congregation, Assembly;   Crimes and Punishments;   Deuteronomy;   Hexateuch;   Holiness;   Law;   Leviticus;   Marriage;   Priests and Levites;   Sanctification, Sanctify;  

Encyclopedias:

- International Standard Bible Encyclopedia - Apart;   Bastard;   Leviticus;   Naked;   Woman;   The Jewish Encyclopedia - Chastity;   Ethics;   Jesus of Nazareth;  

Parallel Translations

Hebrew Names Version
"'You shall not approach a woman to uncover her nakedness, as long as she is impure by her uncleanness.
King James Version
Also thou shalt not approach unto a woman to uncover her nakedness, as long as she is put apart for her uncleanness.
Lexham English Bible
"‘And you must not have sex with a woman to expose her nakedness during her menstrual uncleanness.
New Century Version
"‘You must not go near a woman to have sexual relations with her during her monthly period, when she is unclean.
New English Translation
"‘You must not approach a woman in her menstrual impurity to have sexual intercourse with her.
Amplified Bible
'Also you shall not approach a woman to uncover her nakedness during her menstrual impurity and ceremonial uncleanness.
New American Standard Bible
'Also you shall not approach a woman to uncover her nakedness during her menstrual impurity.
Geneva Bible (1587)
Thou shalt not also go vnto a woman to vncouer her shame, as long as she is put apart for her disease.
Legacy Standard Bible
‘Also you shall not approach a woman to uncover her nakedness during her menstrual impurity.
Contemporary English Version
When a woman is having her monthly period, she is unclean, so don't have sex with her.
Darby Translation
And thou shalt not approach a woman in the separation of her uncleanness to uncover her nakedness.
Easy-to-Read Version
"You must not go near a woman to have sexual relations with her during her monthly time of bleeding. She is unclean during this time.
English Standard Version
"You shall not approach a woman to uncover her nakedness while she is in her menstrual uncleanness.
George Lamsa Translation
You shall not be intimate with a woman while she is unclean during her menstruation.
Good News Translation
Do not have intercourse with a woman during her monthly period, because she is ritually unclean.
Christian Standard Bible®
“You are not to approach a woman during her menstrual impurity to have sexual intercourse with her.
Literal Translation
And you shall not draw near to uncover the nakedness of a woman in her menstrual impurity.
Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
Thou shalt not go vnto a woman to vncouer hir preuytie, so longe as she hath hir disease in hir vnclennesse.
American Standard Version
And thou shalt not approach unto a woman to uncover her nakedness, as long as she is impure by her uncleanness.
Bible in Basic English
And you may not go near a woman or have sex relations with her when she is unclean, at her regular time.
Bishop's Bible (1568)
Thou shalt also not go vnto a woman to vncouer her nakednesse, as long as she is put apart for her vncleannesse.
JPS Old Testament (1917)
And thou shalt not approach unto a woman to uncover her nakedness, as long as she is impure by her uncleanness.
King James Version (1611)
Also thou shalt not approche vnto a woman to vncouer her nakednes, as long as shee is put apart for her vncleannesse.
Brenton's Septuagint (LXX)
And thou shalt not go in to a woman under separation for her uncleanness, to uncover her nakedness.
English Revised Version
And thou shalt not approach unto a woman to uncover her nakedness, as long as she is impure by her uncleanness.
Berean Standard Bible
You must not approach a woman to have sexual relations with her during her menstrual period.
Wycliffe Bible (1395)
Thou schalt not neiye to a womman that suffrith rennyng of blood of monethe, nethir thou schalt schewe hir filthe.
Young's Literal Translation
`And unto a woman in the separation of her uncleanness thou dost not draw near to uncover her nakedness.
Update Bible Version
And you shall not have sex with a woman, as long as she is impure by her uncleanness.
Webster's Bible Translation
Also thou shalt not approach to a woman to uncover her nakedness, as long as she is put apart for her uncleanness.
World English Bible
You shall not approach to a woman to uncover her nakedness, as long as she is impure by her uncleanness.
New King James Version
"Also you shall not approach a woman to uncover her nakedness as long as she is in her customary impurity.
New Living Translation
"Do not have sexual relations with a woman during her period of menstrual impurity.
New Life Bible
‘And you are not to go near a woman to take off her clothes during the time when she has a flow of blood.
New Revised Standard
You shall not approach a woman to uncover her nakedness while she is in her menstrual uncleanness.
J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
And unto a woman during her removal for uncleanness, shalt thou not approach, to uncover her shame.
Douay-Rheims Bible
Thou shalt not approach to a woman having her flowers: neither shalt thou uncover her nakedness.
Revised Standard Version
"You shall not approach a woman to uncover her nakedness while she is in her menstrual uncleanness.
THE MESSAGE
"Don't have sex with a woman during the time of her menstrual period when she is unclean.
New American Standard Bible (1995)
'Also you shall not approach a woman to uncover her nakedness during her menstrual impurity.

Contextual Overview

19 You are not to approach a woman in order to have sexual relations with her when she is unclean from her time of niddah. 20 You are not to go to bed with your neighbor's wife and thus become unclean with her. 21 "‘You are not to let any of your children be sacrificed to Molekh, thereby profaning the name of your God; I am Adonai . 22 (RY: iv, LY: vii) "‘You are not to go to bed with a man as with a woman; it is an abomination. 23 "‘You are not to have sexual relations with any kind of animal and thus become unclean with it; nor is any woman to present herself to an animal to have sexual relations with it; it is perversion. 24 "‘Do not make yourselves unclean by any of these things, because all the nations which I am expelling ahead of you are defiled with them. 25 The land has become unclean, and this is why I am punishing it — the land itself will vomit out its inhabitants. 26 But you are to keep my laws and rulings and not engage in any of these disgusting practices, neither the citizen nor the foreigner living with you; 27 (LY: Maftir) for the people of the land have committed all these abominations, and the land is now defiled. 28 If you make the land unclean, it will vomit you out too, just as it is vomiting out the nation that was there before you.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

Leviticus 15:19, Leviticus 15:24, Leviticus 20:18, Ezekiel 18:6, Ezekiel 22:10

Reciprocal: 2 Samuel 11:4 - purified

Cross-References

Genesis 18:2
He raised his eyes and looked, and there in front of him stood three men. On seeing them, he ran from the tent door to meet them, prostrated himself on the ground,
Genesis 18:4
Please let me send for some water, so that you can wash your feet; then rest under the tree,
Genesis 18:5
and I will bring a piece of bread. Now that you have come to your servant, refresh yourselves before going on." "Very well," they replied, "do what you have said."
Genesis 18:6
Avraham hurried into the tent to Sarah and said, "Quickly, three measures of the best flour! Knead it and make cakes."
Genesis 18:7
Avraham ran to the herd, took a good, tender calf and gave it to the servant, who hurried to prepare it.
Genesis 18:9
They said to him, "Where is Sarah your wife?" He said, "There, in the tent."
Genesis 18:10
He said, "I will certainly return to you around this time next year, and Sarah your wife will have a son." Sarah heard him from the entrance of the tent, behind him.
Genesis 18:19
For I have made myself known to him, so that he will give orders to his children and to his household after him to keep the way of Adonai and to do what is right and just, so that Adonai may bring about for Avraham what he has promised him."
Genesis 18:20
Adonai said, "The outcry against S'dom and ‘Amora is so great and their sin so serious
Genesis 18:21
that I will now go down and see whether their deeds warrant the outcry that has reached me; if not, I will know."

Gill's Notes on the Bible

Also thou shall not approach unto a woman,.... Not even a man to his own wife, and much less to another woman:

to uncover her nakedness, as long as she is put apart for her uncleanness; in her monthly courses; and the time of her separation from her husband on that account was seven days, Leviticus 15:19; if a man lay with a woman when in such circumstances, they were both to be cut off from their people, Leviticus 20:18; and such an action is reckoned among sins, and uncleanness of the worst sort, Ezekiel 22:10.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse Leviticus 18:19. As long as she is put apartLeviticus 15:24; Leviticus 15:24.


 
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