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Wycliffe Bible

Leviticus 15:5

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.

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

1 And the Lord spak to Moises and Aaron, `and seide, 2 Speke ye to the sones of Israel, and seie ye to hem, A man that suffrith the rennyng out of seed, schal be vncleene; 3 and thanne he schal be demed to be suget to this vice, whanne bi alle momentis foul vmour `ethir moysture cleueth to his fleisch, and growith togidere. 4 Ech bed in which he slepith schal be vncleene, and where euer he sittith. 5 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. 6 If a man sittith where he satt, also thilke man schal waische hise clothis, and he schal be waischun in watir, and schal be vnclene `til to euentid. 7 He that touchith hise fleischis, schal waische hise clothis, and he schal be waischun in watir, and schal be vncleene `til to euentid. 8 If sich a man castith out spetyng on hym that is cleene, he schal waische his clothis, and he schal be waischun in watir, and schal be vncleene `til to euentid. 9 The sadil on which he sittith, 10 schal be vncleene; and ech man that touchith what euer thing is vndur hym that suffrith the fletyng out of seed, schal be defoulid `til to euentid. He that berith ony of these thingis, schal waische hise clothis, and he schal be waischun in watir, and schal be vncleene `til to euentid.

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
and Y schal make thee in to a greet folk, and Y schal blisse thee, and Y schal magnyfie thi name, and thou schalt be blessid;
Genesis 13:16
And Y schal make thi seed as the dust of erthe; if ony man may noumbre the dust of erthe, also he schal mowe noumbre thi seed.
Genesis 15:7
And God seide to hym, Y am the Lord, that ladde thee out of Vr of Caldeis, that Y schulde yyue this lond to thee, and thou schuldist haue it in possessioun.
Genesis 15:8
And Abram seide, Lord God, wherbi may I wite that Y schal welde it?
Genesis 16:10
And eft he seide, Y multipliynge schal multiplie thi seed, and it schal not be noumbrid for multitude.
Genesis 22:17
Y schal blesse thee, and Y schal multiplie thi seed as the sterris of heuene, and as grauel which is in the brynk of the see; thi seed schal gete the yatis of hise enemyes;
Genesis 26:4
And Y schal multiplie thi seed as the sterris of heuene, and Y schal yyue alle these thingis to thin eyris, and alle folkis of erthe schulen be blessid in thi seed, for Abraham obeide to my vois,
Genesis 28:14
And thi seed schal be as the dust of erthe, thou schalt be alargid to the eest, and west, and north, and south; and alle lynagis of erthe schulen be blessid in thee and in thi seed.
Exodus 32:13
Haue thou mynde of Abraham, of Ysaac, and of Israel, thi seruauntis, to whiche thou hast swore bi thi silf, and seidist, Y schal multiplie youre seed as the sterris of heuene, and Y schal yyue to youre seed al this lond of which Y spak, and ye schulen welde it euere.
Deuteronomy 1:10
and ye ben ful many to dai, as the sterris of heuene;

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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