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Leviticus 15:21

Whoever touches her bed must wash his clothes and wash himself in water and be unclean until 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.
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.
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 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 ‘When a woman has something flowing from her body, and if it is blood, she will be unclean for seven days. Whoever touches her will be unclean until evening. 20 Everything she lies on while she is unclean will be unclean. And everything she sits on will be unclean. 21 Whoever touches her bed must wash his clothes and wash himself in water and be unclean until evening. 22 Whoever touches anything she sits on must wash his clothes and wash himself in water and be unclean until evening. 23 If he touches anything on her bed or where she sat, he will be unclean until evening. 24 If a man lies with her so that her blood is on him, he will be unclean for seven days. And every bed he lies on will be unclean. 25 ‘If a woman has a flow of blood for many days, at a different time than when it happens each month, or if the blood flows longer at that time, all the days the blood flows she will be unclean. It will be as if it were the time when she is unclean each month. She will be unclean. 26 Any bed she lies on while her blood is flowing will be like the bed during the time she is unclean and whatever she sits on will be unclean. 27 Whoever touches them will be unclean. He must wash his clothes and wash himself in water and be unclean until evening. 28 When she becomes clean from her flow, she will wait seven days. After that 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
You will live many years, die in peace and be buried.
Genesis 15:19
the land of the Kenite, the Kenizzite, the Kadmonite,
Exodus 33:2
I will send an angel before you. And I will drive out the Canaanite, the Amorite, the Hittite, the Perizzite, the Hivite, and the Jebusite.
Exodus 34:11
Be sure to do what I am telling you this day. See, I am going to drive out of your way the Amorite, the Canaanite, the Hittite, the Perizzite, the Hivite, and the Jebusite.
Deuteronomy 7:1
"The Lord your God will bring you into the land you are taking for your own. He will drive away many nations in front of you, the Hittites, the Girgashites, the Amorites, the Canaanites, the Perizzites, the Hivites, and the Jebusites, seven nations bigger and stronger than you.
Matthew 8:28
Jesus came to the other side of the lake into the country of the Gadarenes. Two men came to Him from among the graves. They had demons in them and were very wild men. They were so bad that no one would go near them.

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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