Leviticus 18:19

Leviticus 18:19 in other versions

• King James Version (KJV)Also thou shalt not approach unto a woman to uncover her nakedness, as long as she is put apart for her uncleanness.
• New International Version (NIV)“ ‘Do not approach a woman to have sexual relations during the uncleanness of her monthly period.
• New King James Version (NKJV)‘Also you shall not approach a woman to uncover her nakedness as long as she is in her customary impurity.
• New Living Translation (NLT)“Do not have sexual relations with a woman during her period of menstrual impurity.

Context of Leviticus 18:19

17You shall not uncover the nakedness of a woman and of her daughter, and you shall not take her son's daughter or her daughter's daughter to uncover her nakedness; they are relatives; it is depravity. 18And you shall not take a woman as a rival wife to her sister, uncovering her nakedness while her sister is still alive. "You shall not approach a woman to uncover her nakedness while she is in her menstrual uncleanness. 20And you shall not lie sexually with your neighbor's wife and so make yourself unclean with her. 21You shall not give any of your children to offer them to Molech, and so profane the name of your God: I am the Lord.

Leviticus 18:19 word by word

וְאֶל־אִשָּׁ֖ה בְּנִדַּ֣ת טֻמְאָתָ֑הּ לֹ֣א תִקְרַ֔ב לְגַלּ֖וֹת עֶרְוָתָֽהּ׃Read the interlinear

Words taken from the KJV.

• Also thou shalt not approachקָרַבqârab · to present: comeH7126
• unto a womanאִשָּׁה'ishshâh nâshîym · womanH802
• to uncoverגָּלָהgâlâh · to reveal: uncoverH1540
• her nakednessעֶרְוָה‛ervâh · nakednessH6172
• as long as she is put apartנִדָּהniddâh · impurityH5079
• for her uncleannessטֻמְאָהţûm'âh · uncleannessH2932

Cross-references for Leviticus 18:19

• Leviticus 15:19"When a woman has a discharge, and the discharge in her body is blood, she shall be in her menstrual impurity for seven days, and whoever touches her shall be unclean until the evening.
• Leviticus 20:18If a man lies with a woman during her menstrual period and uncovers her nakedness, he has made naked her fountain, and she has uncovered the fountain of her blood. Both of them shall be cut off from among their people.
• Ezekiel 18:6if he does not eat upon the mountains or lift up his eyes to the idols of the house of Israel, does not defile his neighbor's wife or approach a woman in her time of menstrual impurity,
• Ezekiel 22:10In you men uncover their fathers' nakedness; in you they violate women who are unclean in their menstrual impurity.

Commentaries on Leviticus 18:19

• Adam Clarke Bible Commentary · v. 19As long as she is put apart - See Clarke's note on Leviticus 15:24.Read the comment
• Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary · v. 1-302-4. I am the Lord your God--This renewed mention of the divine sovereignty over the Israelites was intended to bear particularly on some laws that were widely different from the social customs that obtained both in Egypt and Canaan; for the enormities, which the laws enumerated in this chapter were intended to put down, were freely practised or publicly sanctioned in both of those countries; and, indeed, the extermination of the ancient Canaanites is…Read the comment

Topics related to Leviticus 18:19

• Copulation

In the dictionaries

• Approach
• Live
• Mankind
• Near
• Apart
• Atonement, Day of
• Bastard
• Clean
• Cornelius
• Criticism

Commentaries on Leviticus 18

• 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
• Original Douay–Rheims Annotations
• Seventh-day Adventist Bible Commentary
• EGW Writings