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.
• English Standard Version (ESV)"You shall not approach a woman to uncover her nakedness while she is in her menstrual uncleanness.
• 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

17“ ‘Do not have sexual relations with both a woman and her daughter. Do not have sexual relations with either her son’s daughter or her daughter’s daughter; they are her close relatives. That is wickedness. 18“ ‘Do not take your wife’s sister as a rival wife and have sexual relations with her while your wife is living. “ ‘Do not approach a woman to have sexual relations during the uncleanness of her monthly period. 20“ ‘Do not have sexual relations with your neighbor’s wife and defile yourself with her. 21“ ‘Do not give any of your children to be sacrificed to Molek, for you must not 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 her regular flow of blood, the impurity of her monthly period will last seven days, and anyone who touches her will be unclean till evening.
• Leviticus 20:18“ ‘If a man has sexual relations with a woman during her monthly period, he has exposed the source of her flow, and she has also uncovered it. Both of them are to be cut off from their people.
• Ezekiel 18:6He does not eat at the mountain shrines or look to the idols of Israel. He does not defile his neighbor’s wife or have sexual relations with a woman during her period.
• Ezekiel 22:10In you are those who dishonor their father’s bed; in you are those who violate women during their period, when they are ceremonially unclean.

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