Leviticus 15:18

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“If a man lies with a woman and there is an emission of semen, both must bathe with water, and they will remain unclean until evening.”

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BSBPD

“If a man lies with a woman and there is an emission of semen, both must bathe with water, and they will remain unclean until evening.”

Berean Standard Bible · Public Domain (CC0)
KJVPD

“The woman also with whom man shall lie with seed of copulation, they shall both bathe themselves in water, and be unclean until the even.”

King James Version · Public Domain
ASVPD

“The woman also with whom a man shall lie with seed of copulation, they shall both bathe themselves in water, and be unclean until the even.”

American Standard Version · Public Domain
YLTPD

“`And a woman with whom a man lieth with seed of copulation, they also have bathed with water, and been unclean till the evening.”

Young's Literal Translation · Public Domain
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Cross references

Other passages that echo Leviticus 15:18 — 12 related verses from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.

  1. Exodus 19:15“Be prepared for the third day,” he said to the people. “Do not draw near to a woman.”
  2. Leviticus 15:5Anyone who touches his bed must wash his clothes and bathe with water, and he will be unclean until evening.
  3. 1 Samuel 21:4“There is no common bread on hand,” the priest replied, “but there is some consecrated bread—provided that the young men have kept themselves from women.”
  4. Psalms 51:5Surely I was brought forth in iniquity; I was sinful when my mother conceived me.
  5. 1 Corinthians 6:12“Everything is permissible for me,” but not everything is beneficial. “Everything is permissible for me,” but I will not be mastered by anything.
  6. 1 Corinthians 6:18Flee from sexual immorality. Every other sin a man can commit is outside his body, but he who sins sexually sins against his own body.
  7. Ephesians 4:17So I tell you this, and insist on it in the Lord, that you must no longer walk as the Gentiles do, in the futility of their thinking.
  8. Ephesians 5:3But among you, as is proper among the saints, there must not be even a hint of sexual immorality, or of any kind of impurity, or of greed.
  9. 1 Thessalonians 4:3For it is God’s will that you should be holy: You must abstain from sexual immorality;
  10. 2 Timothy 2:22Flee from youthful passions and pursue righteousness, faith, love, and peace, together with those who call on the Lord out of a pure heart.
  11. Hebrews 13:4Marriage should be honored by all and the marriage bed kept undefiled, for God will judge the sexually immoral and adulterers.
  12. 1 Peter 2:11Beloved, I urge you, as foreigners and exiles, to abstain from the desires of the flesh, which war against your soul.

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