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Read the Bible

Louis Segond

Lévitique 15:18

Si une femme a couché avec un tel homme, ils se laveront l'un et l'autre, et seront impurs jusqu'au soir.

Bible Study Resources

Concordances:

- Nave's Topical Bible - Purification;   Sanitation;   The Topic Concordance - Uncleanness;  

Dictionaries:

- Bridgeway Bible Dictionary - Uncleanness;   Water;   Baker Evangelical Dictionary of Biblical Theology - Clean, Unclean;   Woman;   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 - Ablution;   Cleanse;   Defile;   Essenes, the;   Tabernacle;   Uncleanness;   The Jewish Encyclopedia - Ablution;  

Parallel Translations

La Bible Ostervald (1996)
Et quand une femme et un homme coucheront et auront commerce ensemble, ils se laveront dans l'eau, et seront souillés jusqu'au soir.
Darby's French Translation
Et une femme avec laquelle un homme aura couché ayant commerce avec elle;.. ils se laveront dans l'eau, et seront impurs jusqu'au soir.
La Bible David Martin (1744)
Même la femme dont un tel homme aura la compagnie, se lavera dans l'eau [avec son mari], et ils seront souillés jusqu'au soir.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

the woman: Leviticus 15:5, Ephesians 4:17-19, Ephesians 5:3-11, 2 Timothy 2:22, 1 Peter 2:11

unclean: Exodus 19:15, 1 Samuel 21:4, 1 Samuel 21:5, Psalms 51:5, 1 Corinthians 6:12, 1 Corinthians 6:18, 1 Thessalonians 4:3-5, Hebrews 13:4

Gill's Notes on the Bible

The woman also with whom man shall lie [with] seed of copulation,.... It seems to respect any congress of a man and woman, whether in fornication or adultery, or lawful marriage, and particularly the latter; for though marriage is honourable and holy, and carnal copulation in itself lawful, yet such is the sinfulness of nature, that as no act is performed without pollution, so neither that of generation, and by which the corruption of nature is propagated, and therefore required a ceremonial cleansing:

they shall [both] bathe [themselves] in water, and be unclean until the even; so Herodotus f reports, that as often as a Babylonian man lay with his wife, he had used to sit by consecrated incense, and the woman did the same: and in the morning they were both washed, and did not touch any vessel before they had washed themselves; and he says the Arabians did the like: and the same historian relates g of the Egyptians, that they never go into their temples from their wives unwashed; see Exodus 19:15.

f Clio, sive, l. 1. c. 198. g Euterpe, sive, l. 2. c. 64.

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.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse Leviticus 15:18. They shall both bathe themselves] What a wonderful tendency had these ordinances to prevent all excesses! The pains which such persons must take, the separations which they must observe, and the privations which, in consequence, they must be exposed to in the way of commerce, traffic, &c., would prevent them from making an unlawful use of lawful things.


 
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