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Christian Standard Bible ®

Leviticus 15:5

Anyone who touches his bed is to wash his clothes and bathe with water, and he will remain unclean until evening.

Bible Study Resources

Concordances:

- Nave's Topical Bible - Ablution;   Defilement;   Purification;   Sanitation;   Thompson Chain Reference - Disease;   Disinfection;   Health-Disease;   The Topic Concordance - Uncleanness;   Torrey's Topical Textbook - Defilement;   Evening, the;   Purifications or Baptisms;  

Dictionaries:

- Bridgeway Bible Dictionary - Uncleanness;   Baker Evangelical Dictionary of Biblical Theology - Clean, Unclean;   Fausset Bible Dictionary - Issue Out of the Flesh;   Leper;   Wine;   Holman Bible Dictionary - Ablutions;   Discharge;   Issue;   Leprosy;   Leviticus;   Water;   Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible - Clean and Unclean;   Leviticus;   Medicine;   Numbers, Book of;   Hastings' Dictionary of the New Testament - Baptism ;   Preparation ;   Wilson's Dictionary of Bible Types - Bathe;  

Encyclopedias:

- International Standard Bible Encyclopedia - Ablution;   Cleanse;   Talmud;   Uncleanness;   Wash;   The Jewish Encyclopedia - Ablution;   Childbirth;   Mishnah;   Tanḥum Bar ḥanilai;   Ṭebul Yom;  

Parallel Translations

Hebrew Names Version
Whoever touches his bed shall wash his clothes, and bathe himself in water, and be unclean until the evening.
King James Version
And whosoever toucheth his bed shall wash his clothes, and bathe himself in water, and be unclean until the even.
Lexham English Bible
And anyone who touches his bed must wash his garments and shall wash himself with water, and he shall be unclean until evening.
New Century Version
Anyone who touches his bed must wash his clothes and bathe in water, and the person will be unclean until evening.
New English Translation
Anyone who touches his bed must wash his clothes, bathe in water, and be unclean until evening.
Amplified Bible
'Whoever touches his bed shall wash his clothes, and bathe in water, and be unclean until evening;
New American Standard Bible
'Anyone, moreover, who touches his bed shall wash his clothes and bathe in water and be unclean until evening;
Geneva Bible (1587)
Whosoeuer also toucheth his bed, shal wash his clothes, and wash himselfe in water, and shall be vncleane vntill the euen.
Legacy Standard Bible
Anyone, moreover, who touches his bed shall wash his clothes and bathe in water and be unclean until evening;
Contemporary English Version
and if you touch either these or him, you must wash your clothes and take a bath, but you still remain unclean until evening.
Complete Jewish Bible
Whoever touches his bed is to wash his clothes and bathe himself in water; he will be unclean until evening.
Darby Translation
And whoever toucheth his bed shall wash his garments, and bathe in water, and be unclean until the even.
Easy-to-Read Version
If you touch that bed, you must wash your clothes and bathe in water. You will be unclean until evening.
English Standard Version
And anyone who touches his bed shall wash his clothes and bathe himself in water and be unclean until the evening.
George Lamsa Translation
And any man who touches his bed shall wash his clothes and bathe himself in water and be unclean until the evening.
Good News Translation
Anyone who touches his bed
Literal Translation
And anyone who touches his bed shall wash his garments, and shall bathe with water, and shall be unclean until the evening.
Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
And he that toucheth his bed shall wash his clothes, and bathe him self with water, and be vncleane vntyll the euen.
American Standard Version
And whosoever toucheth his bed shall wash his clothes, and bathe himself in water, and be unclean until the even.
Bible in Basic English
And anyone touching his bed is to have his clothing washed and his body bathed in water and be unclean till evening.
Bishop's Bible (1568)
Whosoeuer toucheth his bed, shall washe his clothes and bath hymselfe in water, and be vncleane vntyll the euen.
JPS Old Testament (1917)
And whosoever toucheth his bed shall wash his clothes, and bathe himself in water, and be unclean until the even.
King James Version (1611)
And whosoeuer toucheth his bed, shall wash his clothes, and bath himselfe in water, and bee vncleane vntill the Euen.
Brenton's Septuagint (LXX)
And the man who shall touch his bed, shall wash his garments, and bathe himself in water, and shall be unclean till evening.
English Revised Version
And whosoever toucheth his bed shall wash his clothes, and bathe himself in water, and be unclean until the even.
Berean Standard Bible
Anyone who touches his bed must wash his clothes and bathe with water, and he will be unclean until evening.
Wycliffe Bible (1395)
If ony man touchith his bed, he schal waische his clothis, and he schal be waischun in watir, and schal be vncleene `til to euentid.
Young's Literal Translation
and any one who cometh against his bed doth wash his garments, and hath bathed with water, and been unclean till the evening.
Update Bible Version
And whoever touches his bed shall wash his clothes, and bathe himself in water, and be unclean until the evening.
Webster's Bible Translation
And whoever toucheth his bed, shall wash his clothes, and bathe [himself] in water, and be unclean until the evening.
World English Bible
Whoever touches his bed shall wash his clothes, and bathe himself in water, and be unclean until the evening.
New King James Version
And whoever touches his bed shall wash his clothes and bathe in water, and be unclean until evening.
New Living Translation
So if you touch the man's bed, you must wash your clothes and bathe yourself in water, and you will remain unclean until evening.
New Life Bible
Whoever touches his bed must wash his clothes and wash himself in water. And he will be unclean until evening.
New Revised Standard
Anyone who touches his bed shall wash his clothes, and bathe in water, and be unclean until the evening.
J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
And whosoever toucheth his bed shall wash his clothes and bathe in water and be unclean until the evening.
Douay-Rheims Bible
If any man touch his bed, he shall wash his clothes and being washed with water, he shall be unclean until the evening.
Revised Standard Version
And any one who touches his bed shall wash his clothes, and bathe himself in water, and be unclean until the evening.
New American Standard Bible (1995)
'Anyone, moreover, who touches his bed shall wash his clothes and bathe in water and be unclean until evening;

Contextual Overview

1The Lord spoke to Moses and Aaron: 2“Speak to the Israelites and tell them: When any man has a discharge from his member, he is unclean. 3This is uncleanness of his discharge: Whether his member secretes the discharge or retains it, he is unclean. All the days that his member secretes or retains anything because of his discharge, he is unclean. 4Any bed the man with the discharge lies on will be unclean, and any furniture he sits on will be unclean. 5Anyone who touches his bed is to wash his clothes and bathe with water, and he will remain unclean until evening. 6Whoever sits on furniture that the man with the discharge was sitting on is to wash his clothes and bathe with water, and he will remain unclean until evening. 7Whoever touches the body of the man with a discharge is to wash his clothes and bathe with water, and he will remain unclean until evening. 8If the man with the discharge spits on anyone who is clean, he is to wash his clothes and bathe with water, and he will remain unclean until evening. 9Any saddle the man with the discharge rides on will be unclean. 10Whoever touches anything that was under him will be unclean until evening, and whoever carries such things is to wash his clothes and bathe with water, and he will remain unclean until evening.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

Leviticus 11:25, Leviticus 11:28, Leviticus 11:32, Leviticus 13:6, Leviticus 13:34, Leviticus 14:8, Leviticus 14:9, Leviticus 14:27, Leviticus 14:46, Leviticus 14:47, Leviticus 16:26, Leviticus 16:28, Leviticus 17:15, Numbers 19:10, Numbers 19:22, Psalms 26:6, Psalms 51:2, Psalms 51:7, Isaiah 1:16, Isaiah 22:14, Ezekiel 36:25, Ezekiel 36:29, Hebrews 9:14, Hebrews 9:26, Hebrews 10:22, James 4:8, Revelation 7:14

Reciprocal: Genesis 35:2 - clean Exodus 19:10 - wash Leviticus 11:39 - General Leviticus 11:40 - shall wash Leviticus 15:10 - General Leviticus 15:13 - wash Leviticus 15:16 - General Leviticus 15:18 - the woman Leviticus 15:21 - General Leviticus 15:27 - General Leviticus 22:6 - General Numbers 19:7 - General Deuteronomy 23:11 - wash himself 1 Samuel 20:26 - he is not clean Isaiah 52:11 - touch

Cross-References

Genesis 12:2
I will make you into a great nation,I will bless you,I will make your name great,and you will be a blessing.
Genesis 13:16
I will make your offspring like the dust of the earth, so that if anyone could count the dust of the earth, then your offspring could be counted.
Genesis 15:7
He also said to him, “I am the Lord who brought you from Ur of the Chaldeans to give you this land to possess.”
Genesis 15:8
But he said, “Lord God, how can I know that I will possess it?”
Genesis 16:10
The angel of the Lord said to her, “I will greatly multiply your offspring, and they will be too many to count.”
Genesis 22:17
I will indeed bless you and make your offspring as numerous as the stars of the sky and the sand on the seashore. Your offspring will possess the city gates of their enemies.
Genesis 26:4
I will make your offspring as numerous as the stars of the sky, I will give your offspring all these lands, and all the nations of the earth will be blessed by your offspring,
Genesis 28:14
Your offspring will be like the dust of the earth, and you will spread out toward the west, the east, the north, and the south. All the peoples on earth will be blessed through you and your offspring.
Exodus 32:13
Remember your servants Abraham, Isaac, and Israel—you swore to them by yourself and declared, ‘I will make your offspring as numerous as the stars of the sky and will give your offspring all this land that I have promised, and they will inherit it forever.’”
Deuteronomy 1:10
The Lord your God has so multiplied you that today you are as numerous as the stars of the sky.

Gill's Notes on the Bible

And whosoever toucheth his bed,.... Is unclean. According to the Misnah x, a bed defiles a man seven ways, so as to defile garments; standing, sitting, lying, hanging, and leaning, and by touching, and by bearing:

shall wash his clothes, and bathe [himself] in water; in forty seahs of water, as the Targum of Jonathan:

and be unclean until the even; be unfit for conversation with other men till the even, though both his body and clothes are washed.

x Zabim, ut supra. (c. 2. sect. 4.)


 
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