Leviticus 22:6

Leviticus 22:6 in other versions

• King James Version (KJV)The soul which hath touched any such shall be unclean until even, and shall not eat of the holy things, unless he wash his flesh with water.
• New International Version (NIV)The one who touches any such thing will be unclean till evening. He must not eat any of the sacred offerings unless he has bathed himself with water.
• English Standard Version (ESV)the person who touches such a thing shall be unclean until the evening and shall not eat of the holy things unless he has bathed his body in water.
• New King James Version (NKJV)the person who has touched any such thing shall be unclean until evening, and shall not eat the holy offerings unless he washes his body with water.

Context of Leviticus 22:6

4No man from the descendants of Aaron who is diseased or has a discharge may eat the holy offerings until he becomes clean. The one who touches anything made unclean by contact with a dead person, or a man who has a seminal emission, 5or a man who touches a swarming thing by which he becomes unclean, or touches a person by which he becomes unclean, whatever that person’s impurity – the person who touches any of these will be unclean until evening and must not eat from the holy offerings unless he has bathed his body in water. 7When the sun goes down he will be clean, and afterward he may eat from the holy offerings, because they are his food. 8He must not eat an animal that has died of natural causes or an animal torn by beasts and thus become unclean by it. I am the Lord.

Leviticus 22:6 word by word

נֶ֚פֶשׁ אֲשֶׁ֣ר תִּגַּע־בּ֔וֹ וְטָמְאָ֖ה עַד־הָעָ֑רֶב וְלֹ֤א יֹאכַל֙ מִן־הַקֳּדָשִׁ֔ים כִּ֛י אִם־רָחַ֥ץ בְּשָׂר֖וֹ בַּמָּֽיִם׃Read the interlinear

Words taken from the KJV.

• The soulנֶ֫פֶשׁnephesh · soul: personH5315
• which hath touchedנָגַעnâga‛ · to touchH5060
• any such shall be uncleanטָמֵאţâmê' · to defileH2930
• until evenעֶ֫רֶב‛ereb · eveningH6153
• and shall not eatאָכַל'âkal · to eatH398
• of the holy thingsקֹ֫דֶשׁqôdesh · holinessH6944
• unless[כִּי] אם'im · if: exceptH518
• he washרָחַץrâchats · to wash: washH7364
• his fleshבָּשָׂרbâώâr · fleshH1320
• with waterמַיmayim · waterH4325

Cross-references for Leviticus 22:6

• Leviticus 11:24“‘By these you defile yourselves; anyone who touches their carcass will be unclean until the evening,
• Leviticus 15:5Anyone who touches his bed must wash his clothes, bathe in water, and be unclean until evening.
• Leviticus 16:24Then he must bathe his body in water in a holy place, put on his clothes, and go out and make his burnt offering and the people’s burnt offering. So he is to make atonement on behalf of himself and the people.
• Numbers 19:7Then the priest must wash his clothes and bathe himself in water, and afterward he may come into the camp, but the priest will be ceremonially unclean until evening.
• Haggai 2:13Then Haggai asked, “If a person who is ritually unclean because of touching a dead body comes in contact with one of these items, will it become unclean?” The priests answered, “It will be unclean.”
• 1 Corinthians 6:11Some of you once lived this way. But you were washed, you were sanctified, you were justified in the name of the Lord Jesus Christ and by the Spirit of our God.
• Hebrews 10:22let us draw near with a sincere heart in the assurance that faith brings, because we have had our hearts sprinkled clean from an evil conscience and our bodies washed in pure water.

Commentaries on Leviticus 22:6

• Barnes’ Notes on the Bible · v. 6The soul - Rather, the person. Compare the use of the word “body” in the Prayer Book version of Psalm 53:1, and in the compounds “somebody, nobody”.Read the comment
• Tyndale Open Study Notes · v. 2-6They considered the priest's portions of the sacred offerings "most holy" (see Leviticus 2:3). He had to avoid contact with anything ceremonially unclean (11:1–15:33). So, any descendant of Aaron who was unclean could not eat this food.Read the comment
• Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary · v. 4-64-6. wash his flesh with water--Any Israelite who had contracted a defilement of such a nature as debarred him from the enjoyment of his wonted privileges, and had been legally cleansed from the disqualifying impurity, was bound to indicate his state of recovery by the immersion of his whole person in water. Although all ceremonial impurity formed a ground of exclusion, there were degrees of impurity which entailed a longer or shorter period of…Read the comment

Topics related to Leviticus 22:6

• Defilement
• Sanitation
• Uncleanness

In the dictionaries

• Defile
• Ablution
• Atonement
• Criticism
• Defile; Defilement
• Ezekiel
• Holiness
• Law in the Old Testament
• Leviticus
• Pentateuch

Commentaries on Leviticus 22

• 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
• Seventh-day Adventist Bible Commentary
• EGW Writings