Leviticus 15:20

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

18If a man lies with a woman and there is an emission of semen, they shall both bathe themselves in water, and be unclean until the evening. 19“If a woman has a discharge, and her discharge from her body is blood, she shall be in her niddah seven days. And whoever touches her will be unclean until the evening. Everything that she lies on in her niddah will become unclean. Also everything that she sits on will become unclean. 21Whoever touches her bed is to wash his clothes and bathe himself in water, and be unclean until the evening. 22Whoever touches anything that she sits on is to wash his clothes and bathe himself in water, and be unclean until the evening.

Leviticus 15:20 word by word

וְכֹל֩ אֲשֶׁ֨ר תִּשְׁכַּ֥ב עָלָ֛יו בְּנִדָּתָ֖הּ יִטְמָ֑א וְכֹ֛ל אֲשֶׁר־תֵּשֵׁ֥ב עָלָ֖יו יִטְמָֽא׃Read the interlinear

Words taken from the KJV.

• And every thing that she liethשָׁכַבshâkab · to lie down: lay downH7901
• upon in her separationנִדָּהniddâh · impurityH5079
• shall be uncleanטָמֵאţâmê' · to defileH2930
• every thing also that she sittethיָשַׁבyâshab · to dwellH3427

Cross-references for Leviticus 15:20

• Leviticus 15:4“Every bed on which he who has the discharge lies will become unclean, and everything he sits on will be unclean.
• Proverbs 2:16to deliver you from a seducing woman— a wayward wife with seductive words,
• Proverbs 5:3For a seducing woman’s lips drip honey and her mouth is smoother than oil.
• Proverbs 6:24keeping you from the immoral woman, from a wayward wife’s smooth tongue.
• Proverbs 7:10All of a sudden, a woman meets him, dressed as a prostitute and with a cunning heart.
• Proverbs 9:13The foolish woman is rowdy. She is naïve and knows nothing.
• Proverbs 22:27If you do not have enough to pay, why should your bed be taken from under you?
• Ecclesiastes 7:26I find more bitter than death the woman who is a snare, whose heart is a trap, and whose hands are chains. He who pleases God will escape her, but a sinner will be captured by her.
• 1 Corinthians 15:33Do not be deceived! “Bad company corrupts good morals.”

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

Topics related to Leviticus 15:20

• Defilement
• Menstruation
• Purification
• Sanitation
• Women

In the dictionaries

• Ablution
• Clean
• Uncleanness
• Atonement, Day of
• Cleanse
• Even; Evening; Eventide
• Ezekiel
• Genesis
• John the Baptist
• Law in the Old Testament

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