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Thursday, August 28th, 2025
the Week of Proper 16 / Ordinary 21
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Leviticus 15:21

Whoever touches her bed must wash their clothes and bathe in water. They will 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.
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 Life Bible
Whoever touches her bed must wash his clothes and wash himself in water and be 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 "If a woman has a discharge from her monthly time of bleeding, she will be unclean for seven days. Anyone who touches her will be unclean until evening. 20 Everything she lies on during her monthly time of bleeding will be unclean. And everything she sits on during that time will be unclean. 21 Whoever touches her bed must wash their clothes and bathe in water. They will be unclean until evening. 22 Whoever touches anything she has sat on must wash their clothes and bathe in water. They will be unclean until evening. 23 It doesn't matter if they touched the woman's bed or if they touched something she sat on, they will be unclean until evening. 24 "If a man has sexual relations with a woman during her monthly time of bleeding, he will be unclean for seven days. Every bed he lies on will be unclean. 25 "If a woman has a discharge of blood for many days, not during her time of monthly bleeding, or if she has a discharge after that time, she will be unclean, just as during the time of her monthly bleeding. She will be unclean for as long as she has a discharge. 26 Any bed she lies on during the time of her discharge will be like her bed during the time of her monthly bleeding. Everything she sits on will be unclean, just as it is during the time she is unclean from her monthly bleeding. 27 Whoever touches these things will be unclean until evening. They must wash their own clothes and bathe in water. 28 After the woman's discharge stops, she must 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 yourself will live to be very old. You will die in peace and will be buried with your family.
Genesis 15:19
This is the land of the Kenites, Kenizzites, Kadmonites,
Exodus 33:2
So I will send an angel to go before you, and I will defeat the Canaanites, Amorites, Hittites, Perizzites, Hivites, and Jebusites. I will force them to leave your land.
Exodus 34:11
Obey what I command you today, and I will force your enemies to leave your land. I will force out the Amorites, Canaanites, Hittites, Perizzites, Hivites, and Jebusites.
Deuteronomy 7:1
"The Lord your God will lead you into the land that you are entering to take for your own. He will force out many nations for you—the Hittites, Girgashites, Amorites, Canaanites, Perizzites, Hivites, and Jebusites—seven nations greater and more powerful than you.
Matthew 8:28
Jesus arrived at the other side of the lake in the country of the Gadarene people. There, two men who had demons inside them came to him. They lived in the burial caves and were so dangerous that no one could use the road by those caves.

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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