Leviticus 15:18
BSB · Public Domain (CC0)“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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“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)“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“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“`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 DomainOther passages that echo Leviticus 15:18 — 12 related verses from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.
- Exodus 19:15“Be prepared for the third day,” he said to the people. “Do not draw near to a woman.”
- Leviticus 15:5Anyone who touches his bed must wash his clothes and bathe with water, and he will be unclean until evening.
- 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.”
- Psalms 51:5Surely I was brought forth in iniquity; I was sinful when my mother conceived me.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 1 Thessalonians 4:3For it is God’s will that you should be holy: You must abstain from sexual immorality;
- 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.
- Hebrews 13:4Marriage should be honored by all and the marriage bed kept undefiled, for God will judge the sexually immoral and adulterers.
- 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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