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Friday, August 15th, 2025
the Week of Proper 14 / Ordinary 19
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JPS Old Testament

Leviticus 15:21

And whosoever toucheth her bed shall wash his clothes, and bathe himself in water, and be unclean until the even.

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.
Bible in Basic English
And anyone touching her bed will have to have his clothing washed and his body bathed in water and be unclean till evening.
Bishop's Bible (1568)
Whosoeuer toucheth her bed, shall washe his clothes, and bathe hym selfe with water, and be vncleane vntyll the euen.
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 have an issue, and her issue in her flesh be blood, she shall be in her impurity seven days; and whosoever toucheth her shall be unclean until the even. 20 And every thing that she lieth upon in her impurity shall be unclean; every thing also that she sitteth upon shall be unclean. 21 And whosoever toucheth her bed shall wash his clothes, and bathe himself in water, and be unclean until the even. 22 And whosoever toucheth any thing that she sitteth upon shall wash his clothes, and bathe himself in water, and be unclean until the even. 23 And if he be on the bed, or on any thing whereon she sitteth, when he toucheth it, he shall be unclean until the even. 24 And if any man lie with her, and her impurity be upon him, he shall be unclean seven days; and every bed whereon he lieth shall be unclean. 25 And if a woman have an issue of her blood many days not in the time of her impurity, or if she have an issue beyond the time of her impurity; all the days of the issue of her uncleanness she shall be as in the days of her impurity: she is unclean. 26 Every bed whereon she lieth all the days of her issue shall be unto her as the bed of her impurity; and every thing whereon she sitteth shall be unclean, as the uncleanness of her impurity. 27 And whosoever toucheth those things shall be unclean, and shall wash his clothes, and bathe himself in water, and be unclean until the even. 28 But if she be cleansed of her issue, then she shall number to herself seven days, and after that she shall 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
But thou shalt go to thy fathers in peace; thou shalt be buried in a good old age.
Genesis 15:19
the Kenite, and the Kenizzite, and the Kadmonite,
Exodus 33:2
and I will send an angel before thee; and I will drive out the Canaanite, the Amorite, and the Hittite, and the Perizzite, the Hivite, and the Jebusite--
Exodus 34:11
Observe thou that which I am commanding thee this day; behold, I am driving out before thee the Amorite, and the Canaanite, and the Hittite, and the Perizzite, and the Hivite, and the Jebusite.
Deuteronomy 7:1
When the LORD thy God shall bring thee into the land whither thou goest to possess it, and shall cast out many nations before thee, the Hittite, and the Girgashite, and the Amorite, and the Canaanite, and the Perizzite, and the Hivite, and the Jebusite, seven nations greater and mightier than thou;

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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