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Leviticus 15:22

in Leviticus 15

Whoever touches any furniture on which she was sitting must wash his clothes and bathe with water, and he will be unclean until evening.

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The same verse in ASV and KJV ▾

ASV

And whosoever toucheth anything that she sitteth upon shall wash his clothes, and bathe himself in water, and be unclean until the even.

KJV

And whosoever toucheth any thing that she sat upon shall wash his clothes, and bathe himself in water, and be unclean until the even.

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This verse in Leviticus 15

Commentary

5 notes on this verse

This site's exposition

she will be unclean due to her menstruation for seven days

on Leviticus 15:19-24

The woman's ordinary case is measured in days, seven of them, and closes without an offering. Leviticus 12:2 measures the uncleanness of childbirth by these same days, so the earlier chapter assumes the reader knows this rule.

This site's exposition

any furniture on which she was sitting

John Gill, following the Targum of Jonathan, takes the furniture as her own usual seat. Whoever touches it washes, bathes and waits for evening, as in verse 5. The seat carries her condition while she is away from it.

The record, by era

The Puritans and the Awakening3 voices

A commentator

Matthew Henry

1662–1714

Commentary on the Whole Bible (1710)

proposed

), and those that were unseasonable, excessive, and the disease of the body; such was the bloody issue of that poor woman who was suddenly cured by touching the hem of Christ's garment, after she had lain twelve years under her distemper, and had spent her estate upon physicians and physic in vain. This made the woman that was afflicted with it unclean (

quarantine:debris (2026-07-29) — leading-punctuation

And whosoever toucheth anything that she sat upon,.... Which was appropriated to her to sit upon, as the Targum of Jonathan, which was her proper and peculiar seat, what she usually sat upon; such were obliged to wash their clothes and bathe, as in all the above cases. See Lev 15:5.

A commentator

Matthew Henry

1662–1714

Commentary on the Whole Bible (1710)

proposed

We need not be at all curious in explaining these antiquated laws, it is enough if we observe the general intention; but we have need to be very cautious lest sin take occasion by the commandment to become more exceedingly sinful; and exceedingly sinful it is when lust is kindled by sparks of fire from God's altar.

The words behind it

14 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

  • הַנֹּגֵ֔עַ<the> [one who] touches

    hanogea'H5060 →150 times

  • בְּכָל־<in> every

    bekholH3605 →5413 times

  • כְּלִ֖יarticle

    keliH3627 →325 times

  • אֲשֶׁר־which

    ʾasher-H834 →5497 times

  • תֵּשֵׁ֣בshe will sit

    teshevH3427 →1079 times

  • עָלָ֑יוon it

    ʾalavH5921 →5755 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.

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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 John Gill, Exposition of the Old Testament; 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.

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