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Leviticus 15:24

in Leviticus 15

If a man lies with her and her menstrual flow touches him, he will be unclean for seven days, and any bed on which he lies will become unclean.

BSB

The same verse in ASV and KJV ▾

ASV

And if any man lie with her, and her impurity be upon him, he shall be unclean seven days; and every bed whereon he lieth shall be unclean.

KJV

And if any man lie with her at all, and her flowers be upon him, he shall be unclean seven days; and all the bed whereon he lieth shall be unclean.

This verse in Leviticus 15

Commentary

7 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

he will be unclean for seven days

Verse 24 sets seven days of uncleanness while 20:18 cuts both off from their people. Albert Barnes reconciles them by reading this verse of a flow that begins unexpectedly.

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 any man lie with her at all,....

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 Nineteenth Century2 voices

A commentator

Adam Clarke

1762–1832

Commentary on the Bible · Written before 1832.

proposed

The common sense of all mankind has led them to avoid the gross impropriety referred to in this verse - and it has been a general opinion, that off-spring obtained in this way has been infected with leprous, scrofulous, and other deeply radicated diseases, from which they and their posterity have been scarcely ever freed.
This must refer to an unexpected occurrence. Intercourse during the acknowledged period was a heavy crime, and was to be punished by “cutting off” Lev 18:19; Lev 20:18; Eze 18:6.

The words behind it

17 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.

  • וְאִ֡םand if

    veimH518 →1069 times

  • שָׁכֹב֩certainly <to lie>

    shakhoH7901 →212 times

  • יִשְׁכַּ֨בhe will lie with

    yishkavH7901 →212 times

  • אִ֜ישׁa man

    ʾishH376 →1663 times

  • אֹתָ֗הּwith <the> her

    ʾotahH854 →929 times

  • וּתְהִ֤יand it will be

    utehiH1961 →3559 times

  • נִדָּתָהּ֙menstruous impurity her

    nidatahH5079 →29 times

  • עָלָ֔יוon him

    ʾalavH5921 →5755 times

  • וְטָמֵ֖אand he will be unclean

    vetame'H2930 →162 times

  • שִׁבְעַ֣תseven

    shivatH7651 →394 times

  • יָמִ֑יםdays

    yamimH3117 →2304 times

  • וְכָל־and every

    vekholH3605 →5413 times

  • הַמִּשְׁכָּ֛ב<the> bed

    hamishkavH4904 →46 times

  • אֲשֶׁר־which

    ʾasher-H834 →5497 times

  • יִשְׁכַּ֥בhe will lie

    yishkavH7901 →212 times

  • עָלָ֖יוon it

    ʾalavH5921 →5755 times

  • יִטְמָֽא׃ פit will be unclean

    yitma'H2930 →162 times

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

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

    Hebrews 13:4

    Marriage should be honored by all and the marriage bed kept undefiled, for God will judge the sexually immoral and adulterers.

    it leads to

    • Genesis 2:24

      For this reason a man will leave his father and mother and be united to his wife, and they will become one flesh.

    • Proverbs 5:15–23

      Drink water from your own cistern, and running water from your own well.

    • 1 Corinthians 7:2–16

      But because there is so much sexual immorality, each man should have his own wife, and each woman her own husband.

    • Galatians 5:19

      The acts of the flesh are obvious: sexual immorality, impurity, and debauchery;

  • Through

    1 Peter 2:11

    Beloved, I urge you, as foreigners and exiles, to abstain from the desires of the flesh, which war against your soul.

    it leads to

    • 1 John 2:15–17

      Do not love the world or anything in the world. If anyone loves the world, the love of the Father is not in him.

    • Galatians 5:24

      Those who belong to Christ Jesus have crucified the flesh with its passions and desires.

    • 1 Peter 4:2

      Consequently, he does not live out his remaining time on earth for human passions, but for the will of God.

    • Hebrews 11:13

      All these people died in faith, without having received the things they were promised. However, they saw them and welcomed them from afar. And they acknowledged that they were strangers and exiles on the…

Where this verse is studied

About Leviticus

The Scapegoat, William Holman Hunt, 1854. Public domain.
The Scapegoat, William Holman Hunt, 1854. Public domain.

This page draws on Adam Clarke, Commentary on the Bible; Albert Barnes, Notes, Explanatory and Practical, on the Old and New Testaments (1832-1869); 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.