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Leviticus 17:16
16If that person does not wash his clothes and his body, it is his own mistake.’
Leviticus 17:16 in other versions
- King James Version (KJV)But if he wash them not, nor bathe his flesh; then he shall bear his iniquity.
- New International Version (NIV)But if they do not wash their clothes and bathe themselves, they will be held responsible.’ ”
- English Standard Version (ESV)But if he does not wash them or bathe his flesh, he shall bear his iniquity."
- New King James Version (NKJV)But if he does not wash them or bathe his body, then he shall bear his guilt.”
Context of Leviticus 17:16
14The animal's life is in its blood. That is why no Israelite should eat any animal's blood. You must send any person that eats blood away from your people. 15An Israelite or a foreign person may find a dead animal. If he eats it, he must wash his clothes and his body. He will be unclean until evening. Then he will become clean. A person might find an animal or a bird that a wild animal has killed. He must wash his clothes and his body. He will be unclean until evening. If that person does not wash his clothes and his body, it is his own mistake.’
Read all of Leviticus 17Leviticus 17:16 word by word
וְאִם֙ לֹ֣א יְכַבֵּ֔ס וּבְשָׂר֖וֹ לֹ֣א יִרְחָ֑ץ וְנָשָׂ֖א עֲוֹנֽוֹ׃ פRead the interlinear
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Cross-references for Leviticus 17:16
- Leviticus 5:1A person may know about something that is wrong. He may not speak about it at a public meeting. That person is sinning.
- Leviticus 7:18If the person eats the meat on the third day, God will not accept the gift. The meat is not good. The person who eats it will not give God pleasure.
- Leviticus 19:8If he eats the meat on the third day he makes unclean a gift that is holy to the Lord. You must send him away from the camp.
- Leviticus 20:17It is a sin if a man marries his sister. She may be the daughter of his father or of his mother. It is a sin if he has sex with her. The people must send them away. He has taken away his sister's honour. He must carry the punishment for his sin.
- Numbers 19:19And the clean person must splash the water on the unclean person on the third day too. And he must do it on the seventh day. On the seventh day he will make the person clean again. Then the person who had not been clean must wash his clothes. And he must wash himself in water. In the evening, that person will become clean.
- Isaiah 53:11When God's servant sees the result of his pain, he will understand what he has done. And he will be happy. The Lord says, ‘My righteous servant will cause many people to be “not guilty”, because he will take the punishment for all their sins.
- John 13:8Peter said, ‘No! You will never wash my feet!’ Jesus answered, ‘If I do not wash you, you do not belong with me.’
- Hebrews 9:28Christ also died only once as a sacrifice. In this way, he took God's punishment for the sins of many people. Christ will return to earth a second time, but that will not be as a sacrifice for sins. That time, he will come to save those people who are waiting patiently for him.
- 1 Peter 2:24When Christ died on the cross, he carried our sins in his own body. He took this punishment so that sin would no longer rule over us. Instead, we can now do the right things that God wants us to do. Because people hurt Christ's body, you have now become well.
Commentaries on Leviticus 17:16
- Matthew Henry Concise Commentary · v. 10-16Verses 10-16 Here is a confirmation of the law against eating blood. They must eat no blood. But this law was ceremonial, and is now no longer in force; the coming of the substance does away the shadow. The blood of beasts is no longer the ransom, but Christ's blood only; therefore there is not now the reason for abstaining there then was. The blood is now allowed for the nourishment of our bodies; it is no longer appointed to make an atonement for the…Read the comment
- Tyndale Open Study Notes · v. 15-16An animal killed by a predator or that died naturally still had blood in its tissues. This made it ceremonially unclean and a possible source of ceremonial uncleanness (Leviticus 22:8). Israelites must throw such an animal to the dogs or give or sell it to a non-Israelite (Exodus 22:31; Deuteronomy 14:21). If an Israelite ate an animal with undrained blood, he or she became ceremonially unclean. Then they had to wash in water. The uncleanness was not a…Read the comment
- Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary · v. 15-1615-16. every soul that eateth that which died of itself (Ex 22:31; Le 7:24; Ac 15:20), be unclean until the even--that is, from the moment of his discovering his fault until the evening. This law, however, was binding only on an Israelite. (See De 14:21).Read the comment
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Commentaries on Leviticus 17
- Adam Clarke Bible Commentary
- Barnes’ Notes on the Bible
- Matthew Henry Concise Commentary
- Tyndale Open Study Notes
- Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary
- Rashi on Tanakh
- Calvin’s Commentaries
- Keil & Delitzsch Commentary
- John Wesley’s Notes
- Darby Translation Notes
- Geneva Bible Translation Notes
- Kingcomments
- Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary
- Matthew Henry’s Modern English Commentary
- Scofield Reference Notes, 1917 Edition
- Seventh-day Adventist Bible Commentary
- EGW Writings
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