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Updated Bible Version

Leviticus 18:19

And you shall not have sex with a woman, as long as she is impure by her uncleanness.

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.
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.
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 And you shall not have sex with a woman, as long as she is impure by her uncleanness. 20 And you shall not have sex with your neighbor's wife, to defile yourself with her. 21 And you shall not give any of your seed to make them pass through [the fire] to Molech; neither shall you profane the name of your God: I am Yahweh. 22 You shall not have sex with a man: it is disgusting. 23 And you shall not have sex with any animal and defile yourself therewith; neither shall any woman have sex with an animal: it is perverted. 24 Don't defile yourselves in any of these things: for in all these the nations have been defiled which I am casting out from before you; 25 And the land is defiled: therefore I visit the iniquity thereof on it, and the land vomits out her inhabitants. 26 You therefore shall keep my statutes and my ordinances, and shall not do any of these disgusting things; neither the home-born, nor the stranger that sojourns among you; 27 for the men that were before you in the land have done all these disgusting things, and the land is defiled; 28 that the land does not vomit you out also, when you defile it, as it is vomiting out the nation that was 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
and he lifted up his eyes and looked, and noticed three men stood across from him: and when he saw them, he ran to meet them from the tent door, and bowed himself to the earth,
Genesis 18:4
let now a little water be fetched, and wash your feet, and rest yourselves under the tree:
Genesis 18:5
and I will fetch a morsel of bread, and strengthen your heart; after that you shall pass on: since you have come to your slave. And they said, Do so, as you have said.
Genesis 18:6
And Abraham hurried into the tent to Sarah, and said, Quickly make ready three seahs of fine meal, knead it, and make cakes.
Genesis 18:7
And Abraham ran to the herd, and fetched a tender and good calf, and gave it to the attendant; and he hurried to dress it.
Genesis 18:9
And they said to him, Where is Sarah your wife? And he said, Look, in the tent.
Genesis 18:10
And he said, I will certainly return to you when the season comes around; and, see, Sarah your wife shall have a son. And Sarah heard in the tent door, which was behind him.
Genesis 18:19
For I have known him, to the end that he may command his sons and his household after him, that they may keep the way of Yahweh, to do righteousness and justice; to the end that Yahweh may bring on Abraham that which he has spoken of him.
Genesis 18:20
And Yahweh said, Because the cry of Sodom and Gomorrah is great, and because their sin is very grievous;
Genesis 18:21
I will go down now, and see whether they have done altogether according to its [Sodom's] cry, which has come to me; and 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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