Skip to content
mannafest.faith
Read

Leviticus 15:10

in Leviticus 15

Whoever touches anything that was under him will be unclean until evening, and whoever carries such things must wash his clothes and bathe with water, and he will be unclean until evening.

BSB

The same verse in ASV and KJV ▾

ASV

And whosoever toucheth anything that was under him shall be unclean until the even: and he that beareth those things shall wash his clothes, and bathe himself in water, and be unclean until the even.

KJV

And whosoever toucheth any thing that was under him shall be unclean until the even: and he that beareth any of those things shall wash his clothes, and bathe himself in water, and be unclean until the even.

⋯

This verse in Leviticus 15

Commentary

4 notes on this verse

This site's exposition

sits on furniture on which the man with the discharge was sitting

on Leviticus 15:6-12

The uncleanness passes through his furniture, body, spit, saddle, touch and vessels. Verse 11 sets one exception, since his touch defiles only when he has not first rinsed his hands.

This site's exposition

whoever carries such things

Verse 10 separates two degrees of contact. John Gill reads the first, touching anything that lay under him, as uncleanness until evening, while carrying it adds washing clothes and bathing. The heavier contact receives the heavier rule.

The record, by era

The Puritans and the Awakening2 voices

And whosoever toucheth anything that was under him shall be unclean until the even,....

A commentator

Matthew Henry

1662–1714

Commentary on the Whole Bible (1710)

proposed

When he was cured of the disease, yet he could not be cleansed from the pollution without a sacrifice, for which he was to prepare himself by seven days' expectation after he was perfectly clear from his distemper, and by bathing in spring water,

How the passage was read

What the Jewish commentators add

Anyone who touches anything which is beneath him shall be impure until the evening.
Targum · Onkelos Leviticus 15:10, via Sefaria, Metsudah Chumash, Metsudah Publications, 2009 [with Onkelos translation]

This section is reception history: how the passage was read and kept in the Jewish tradition. Where a reading parts from an essential of the Christian faith, the section says so at that point.

Texts and citation data: Sefaria; each excerpt follows its version’s licence. 7 further sources are cited on this chapter that carry no English text this site may quote or only restate the verse.

The words behind it

18 Hebrew words

Every Hebrew word of this verse in the order it stands, with what it means and the door to its own study. The last column counts the times a word stands in the whole Bible: the rarer the word, the more the places it appears belong together.

  • וְכָל־and every

    vekholH3605 →5413 times

  • הַנֹּגֵ֗עַ<the> [one who] touches

    hanogea'H5060 →150 times

  • בְּכֹל֙<in> all

    bekholH3605 →5413 times

  • אֲשֶׁ֣רthat

    ʾasherH834 →5497 times

  • יִהְיֶ֣הit will be

    yihyehH1961 →3559 times

  • תַחְתָּ֔יוunder him

    tachtavH8478 →505 times

  • יִטְמָ֖אhe will be unclean

    yitma'H2930 →162 times

  • עַד־until

    ʾad-H5704 →1261 times

  • הָעָ֑רֶבthe evening

    haarevH6153 →134 times

  • וְהַנּוֹשֵׂ֣אand who [-ever] carries

    vehanose'H5375 →656 times

  • אוֹתָ֔ם<obj.> them

    ʾotamH853 →10935 times

  • יְכַבֵּ֧סhe will wash

    yekhabesH3526 →51 times

  • בְּגָדָ֛יוgarments his

    begadavH899 →217 times

  • וְרָחַ֥ץand he will wash

    verachatzH7364 →72 times

  • בַּמַּ֖יִםwith <the> water

    bamayimH4325 →581 times

  • וְטָמֵ֥אand he will be unclean

    vetame'H2930 →162 times

  • עַד־until

    ʾad-H5704 →1261 times

  • הָעָֽרֶב׃the evening

    haarevH6153 →134 times

A shaded row is a word that stands 400 times or fewer in the Bible.

Related verses

6 in all, six open

The number beside each verse is how many compiled reference works tie it to this one. The strongest six stand open.

Leviticus 15:8If the man with the discharge spits on one who is clean, that person must wash his clothes and bathe with water, and he will be unclean until evening.2 worksJames 4:8Draw near to God, and He will draw near to you. Cleanse your hands, you sinners, and purify your hearts, you double-minded.2 worksLeviticus 15:5Anyone who touches his bed must wash his clothes and bathe with water, and he will be unclean until evening.2 worksPsalms 26:6I wash my hands in innocence that I may go about Your altar, O LORD,2 worksLeviticus 14:46Anyone who enters the house during any of the days that it is closed up will be unclean until evening.2 worksLeviticus 17:15And any person, whether native or foreigner, who eats anything found dead or mauled by wild beasts must wash his clothes and bathe with water, and he will be unclean until evening; then he will be clean.2 works

The walk

8 stops

Each card is a verse this one points to, and under it the verses that one points to in turn. Where several paths arrive at the same place, that place is listed first: the text keeps returning to it.

  • Through

    James 4:8

    Draw near to God, and He will draw near to you. Cleanse your hands, you sinners, and purify your hearts, you double-minded.

    it leads to

    • Psalms 145:18

      The LORD is near to all who call on Him, to all who call out to Him in truth.

    • Hebrews 10:22

      let us draw near with a sincere heart in full assurance of faith, having our hearts sprinkled to cleanse us from a guilty conscience and our bodies washed with pure water.

    • Malachi 3:7

      Yet from the days of your fathers, you have turned away from My statutes and have not kept them. Return to Me, and I will return to you,” says the LORD of Hosts. “But…

    • Zechariah 1:3

      So tell the people that this is what the LORD of Hosts says: ‘Return to Me, declares the LORD of Hosts, and I will return to you, says the LORD of Hosts.’

    • Isaiah 55:6–7

      Seek the LORD while He may be found; call on Him while He is near.

  • Through

    Psalms 26:6

    I wash my hands in innocence that I may go about Your altar, O LORD,

    it leads to

    • Psalms 73:13

      Surely in vain I have kept my heart pure; in innocence I have washed my hands.

    • Isaiah 1:16–18

      Wash and cleanse yourselves. Remove your evil deeds from My sight. Stop doing evil!

    • Titus 3:5

      He saved us, not by the righteous deeds we had done, but according to His mercy, through the washing of new birth and renewal by the Holy Spirit.

Where this verse is studied

About Leviticus

The Scapegoat, William Holman Hunt, 1854. Public domain.
The Scapegoat, William Holman Hunt, 1854. Public domain.
Leviticus: the study guide →Read Leviticus 15 →

This page draws on Adam Clarke, Commentary on the Bible; John Gill, Exposition of the Old Testament (1748-1763); Keil and Delitzsch, Biblical Commentary on the Old Testament: The Pentateuch and Matthew Henry, Commentary on the Whole Bible.

Read on in Leviticus 15 →