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Leviticus 15:17

Any clothing or leather on which the seed touches must be washed with water. It will be unclean until 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.
Bible in Basic English
And any clothing or skin on which the seed comes is to be washed with water and be unclean till evening.
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 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 The Lord said to Moses and Aaron, 2 "Say to the people of Israel, ‘When a man has something flowing from his body, what is flowing is unclean. 3 If it flows, or if it fills up and stops flowing, he will be unclean. 4 Every bed on which the person with the flow lies will be unclean. 5 Whoever touches his bed must wash his clothes and wash himself in water. And he will be unclean until evening. 6 Whoever sits where the man with the flow has been sitting must wash his clothes and wash himself with water. He will be unclean until evening. 7 Whoever touches the person with the flow must wash his clothes and wash himself in water. And he will be unclean until evening. 8 If the man with the flow spits on one who is clean, then he must wash his clothes, wash himself in water, and be unclean until evening. 9 Any leather seat on which the man who is unclean has been sitting will be unclean. 10 Whoever touches anything that was under him will be unclean until 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
Then Abram said, "O Lord God, what will You give me? For I have no child. And the one who is to receive what belongs to me is Eliezer of Damascus."
Genesis 15:3
Abram said, "Because You have not given me a child, one born in my house will be given all I have."
Genesis 15:18
The Lord made an agreement with Abram on that day. He said, "I have given this land to your children and to their children's children, from the river of Egypt as far as the big Euphrates River,
Genesis 15:19
the land of the Kenite, the Kenizzite, the Kadmonite,
Deuteronomy 4:20
But the Lord has taken you and brought you out of the iron stove, out of Egypt, to be His own people, as you are this day.
Judges 6:21
The angel of the Lord put out the end of the stick that was in his hand and touched the meat and the bread without yeast. And fire came up from the rock and burned up the meat and the bread without yeast. Then the angel of the Lord was seen no more.
Judges 13:20
For the fire went up from the altar toward heaven. And the angel of the Lord went up in the fire of the altar. When Manoah and his wife saw this, they fell with their faces on the ground.
2 Samuel 22:9
Smoke went up from His nose. Fire that destroyed came from His mouth. Burnt pieces of wood were set on fire by it.
1 Chronicles 21:26
Then David built an altar there to the Lord. He gave burnt gifts and peace gifts, and he called to the Lord. The Lord answered him with fire from heaven on the altar of burnt gifts.
Isaiah 62:1
Because of Zion I will not keep quiet. Because of Jerusalem I will not rest, until her being right with God shines like a bright light, and her being saved shines like fire.

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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