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Good News Translation

Leviticus 18:19

Do not have intercourse with a woman during her monthly period, because she is ritually unclean.

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.
Complete Jewish Bible
You are not to approach a woman in order to have sexual relations with her when she is unclean from her time of niddah.
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.
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 Do not have intercourse with a woman during her monthly period, because she is ritually unclean. 20 Do not have intercourse with another man's wife; that would make you ritually unclean. 21 Do not hand over any of your children to be used in the worship of the god Molech, because that would bring disgrace on the name of God, the Lord . 22 No man is to have sexual relations with another man; God hates that. 23 No man or woman is to have sexual relations with an animal; that perversion makes you ritually unclean. 24 Do not make yourselves unclean by any of these acts, for that is how the pagans made themselves unclean, those pagans who lived in the land before you and whom the Lord is driving out so that you can go in. 25 Their actions made the land unclean, and so the Lord is punishing the land and making it reject the people who lived there. 26They did all these disgusting things and made the land unclean, but you must not do them. All of you, whether Israelites or foreigners living with you, must keep the Lord 's laws and commands, 28 and then the land will not reject you, as it rejected the pagans who lived there before you. 29 You know that whoever does any of these disgusting things will no longer be considered one of God's people.

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 looked up and saw three men standing there. As soon as he saw them, he ran out to meet them. Bowing down with his face touching the ground,
Genesis 18:4
Let me bring some water for you to wash your feet; you can rest here beneath this tree.
Genesis 18:5
I will also bring a bit of food; it will give you strength to continue your journey. You have honored me by coming to my home, so let me serve you." They replied, "Thank you; we accept."
Genesis 18:6
Abraham hurried into the tent and said to Sarah, "Quick, take a sack of your best flour, and bake some bread."
Genesis 18:7
Then he ran to the herd and picked out a calf that was tender and fat, and gave it to a servant, who hurried to get it ready.
Genesis 18:9
Then they asked him, "Where is your wife Sarah?" "She is there in the tent," he answered.
Genesis 18:10
One of them said, "Nine months from now I will come back, and your wife Sarah will have a son." Sarah was behind him, at the door of the tent, listening.
Genesis 18:19
I have chosen him in order that he may command his sons and his descendants to obey me and to do what is right and just. If they do, I will do everything for him that I have promised."
Genesis 18:20
Then the Lord said to Abraham, "There are terrible accusations against Sodom and Gomorrah, and their sin is very great.
Genesis 18:21
I must go down to find out whether or not the accusations which I have heard are true."

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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