Leviticus 15:24
BSB · Public Domain (CC0)“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.”
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“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.”
Berean Standard Bible · Public Domain (CC0)“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.”
King James Version · Public Domain“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.”
American Standard Version · Public Domain“`And if a man really lie with her, and her separation is on him, then he hath been unclean seven days, and all the bed on which he lieth is unclean.”
Young's Literal Translation · Public DomainOther passages that echo Leviticus 15:24 — 8 related verses from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.
- Leviticus 15:33of a woman in her menstrual period, of any male or female who has a discharge, and of a man who lies with an unclean woman.’”
- Leviticus 18:19You must not approach a woman to have sexual relations with her during her menstrual period.
- Leviticus 20:18If a man lies with a menstruating woman and has sexual relations with her, he has exposed the source of her flow, and she has uncovered the source of her blood. Both of them must be cut off from among their people.
- Ezekiel 18:6He does not eat at the mountain or look to the idols of the house of Israel. He does not defile his neighbor’s wife or approach a woman during her period.
- Ezekiel 22:10In you they have uncovered the nakedness of their fathers; in you they violate women during their menstrual impurity.
- 1 Thessalonians 5:22Abstain from every form of evil.
- 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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