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Leviticus 15:23

in Leviticus 15

And whether it is a bed or furniture on which she was sitting, whoever touches it will be unclean until evening.

BSB

The same verse in ASV and KJV ▾

ASV

And if it be on the bed, or on anything whereon she sitteth, when he toucheth it, he shall be unclean until the even.

KJV

And if it be on her bed, or on any thing whereon she sitteth, when he toucheth it, he shall 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

whether it is a bed or furniture

Verse 23 joins bed and seat in one rule and names only the wait until evening. The BSB reads it as a summary, while John Gill's wording speaks of a thing that is on her bed or on her seat. Both readings end the contact at evening.

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 (

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And if it be on her bed, or on anything whereon she sitteth,....

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

16 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.

  • וְאִ֨םand if

    veimH518 →1069 times

  • עַֽל־[is] on

    ʾal-H5921 →5755 times

  • הַמִּשְׁכָּ֜בthe bed

    hamishkavH4904 →46 times

  • ה֗וּאit

    hu'H1931 →1879 times

  • א֧וֹor

    ʾoH176 →321 times

  • עַֽל־on

    ʾal-H5921 →5755 times

  • הַכְּלִ֛יthe article

    hakeliH3627 →325 times

  • אֲשֶׁר־which

    ʾasher-H834 →5497 times

  • הִ֥ואshe

    hi'H1931 →1879 times

  • יֹשֶֽׁבֶת־[was] sitting

    yoshevet-H3427 →1079 times

  • עָלָ֖יוon it

    ʾalavH5921 →5755 times

  • בְּנָגְעוֹ־when touches he

    benageov-H5060 →150 times

  • ב֑וֹ<in> <the> it

    vo

  • יִטְמָ֖אhe will be unclean

    yitma'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.

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 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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