God’s Word Translation
Leviticus 15:20
20Everything she lies on or sits on during her period will be unclean.
Leviticus 15:20 in other versions
- King James Version (KJV)And every thing that she lieth upon in her separation shall be unclean: every thing also that she sitteth upon shall be unclean.
- New International Version (NIV)“ ‘Anything she lies on during her period will be unclean, and anything she sits on will be unclean.
- English Standard Version (ESV)And everything on which she lies during her menstrual impurity shall be unclean. Everything also on which she sits shall be unclean.
- New King James Version (NKJV)Everything that she lies on during her impurity shall be unclean; also everything that she sits on shall be unclean.
Context of Leviticus 15:20
18“When a man has sexual intercourse with a woman and has an emission of semen, they must wash themselves. They will be unclean until evening. 19“When a woman has her monthly period, she will be unclean for seven days. Those who touch her will be unclean until evening. Everything she lies on or sits on during her period will be unclean. 21Those who touch her bed must wash their clothes and their bodies. They will be unclean until evening. 22Those who touch anything she sits on must wash their clothes and their bodies. They will be unclean until evening.
Read all of Leviticus 15Leviticus 15:20 word by word
וְכֹל֩ אֲשֶׁ֨ר תִּשְׁכַּ֥ב עָלָ֛יו בְּנִדָּתָ֖הּ יִטְמָ֑א וְכֹ֛ל אֲשֶׁר־תֵּשֵׁ֥ב עָלָ֖יו יִטְמָֽא׃Read the interlinear
Words taken from the KJV.
Cross-references for Leviticus 15:20
- Leviticus 15:4“The man who has a discharge makes everything he lies on or sits on unclean.
- Proverbs 2:16⌞Wisdom will⌟ also save you from an adulterous woman, from a loose woman with her smooth talk,
- Proverbs 5:3The lips of an adulterous woman drip with honey. Her kiss is smoother than oil,
- Proverbs 6:24to keep you from an evil woman and from the smooth talk of a loose woman.
- Proverbs 7:10A woman with an ulterior motive meets him. She is dressed as a prostitute.
- Proverbs 9:13The woman Stupidity is loud, gullible, and ignorant.
- Proverbs 22:27If you have no money to pay back a loan, why should your bed be repossessed?
- Ecclesiastes 7:26I find that a woman whose thoughts are ⌞like⌟ traps and snares is more bitter than death itself. Even her hands are ⌞like⌟ chains. Whoever pleases God will escape her, but she will catch whoever continues to sin.
- 1 Corinthians 15:33Don’t let anyone deceive you. Associating with bad people will ruin decent people.
Commentaries on Leviticus 15:20
- Tyndale Open Study Notes · v. 19-23A woman's menstrual period is natural and not a disease. But because it involved a bloody discharge, she became ceremonially unclean (see Leviticus 15:32–33). The rules were similar to those for a man with a bodily discharge (15:2–12). She could stay at home, but anything she sat on became unclean. Anyone who touched her had to wash, and she probably did the same after the seven-day quarantine. There was no animal sacrifice needed.Read the comment
- Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary · v. 19-3319. if a woman have an issue--Though this, like the leprosy, might be a natural affection, it was anciently considered contagious and entailed a ceremonial defilement which typified a moral impurity. This ceremonial defilement had to be removed by an appointed method of ceremonial expiation, and the neglect of it subjected any one to the guilt of defiling the tabernacle, and to death as the penalty of profane temerity.Read the comment
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Commentaries on Leviticus 15
- 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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