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Leviticus 15:21

Anyone who touches her bed must wash his clothes, bathe 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.
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 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 "‘When a woman has a discharge and her discharge is blood from her body, she is to be in her menstruation seven days, and anyone who touches her will be unclean until evening. 20 Anything she lies on during her menstruation will be unclean, and anything she sits on will be unclean. 21 Anyone who touches her bed must wash his clothes, bathe in water, and be unclean until evening. 22 Anyone who touches any furniture she sits on must wash his clothes, bathe in water, and be unclean until evening. 23 If there is something on the bed or on the furniture she sits on, when he touches it he will be unclean until evening, 24 and if a man actually has sexual intercourse with her so that her menstrual impurity touches him, then he will be unclean seven days and any bed he lies on will be unclean. 25 "‘When a woman's discharge of blood flows many days not at the time of her menstruation, or if it flows beyond the time of her menstruation, all the days of her discharge of impurity will be like the days of her menstruation—she is unclean. 26 Any bed she lies on all the days of her discharge will be to her like the bed of her menstruation, any furniture she sits on will be unclean like the impurity of her menstruation, 27 and anyone who touches them will be unclean, and he must wash his clothes, bathe in water, and be unclean until evening. 28 "‘If she becomes clean from her discharge, then she is to count off for herself seven days, and afterward 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
But as for you, you will go to your ancestors in peace and be buried at a good old age.
Genesis 15:19
the land of the Kenites, Kenizzites, Kadmonites,
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
"Obey what I am commanding you this day. I am going to drive out before you the Amorite, the Canaanite, the Hittite, the Perizzite, the Hivite, and the Jebusite.
Deuteronomy 7:1
When the Lord your God brings you to the land that you are going to occupy and forces out many nations before you—Hittites, Girgashites, Amorites, Canaanites, Perizzites, Hivites, and Jebusites, seven nations more numerous and powerful than you—
Matthew 8:28
When he came to the other side, to the region of the Gadarenes, two demon-possessed men coming from the tombs met him. They were extremely violent, so that no one was able to pass by that way.

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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