Leviticus 15:31

KJV1611 – Modern English

Thus shall you separate the children of Israel from their uncleanness; that they do not die in their uncleanness, when they defile my tabernacle that is among them.

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  • Linguistic Bible Translation from Source Texts

    You must warn the Israelites about their impurity, so they do not die by defiling My tabernacle, which is among them.

  • King James Version 1769 (Standard Version)

    Thus shall ye separate the children of Israel from their uncanness; that they die not in their uncanness, when they defi my tabernac that is among them.

  • American Standard Version with Strong's Numbers

    Thus shall ye separate{H5144} the children{H1121} of Israel{H3478} from their uncleanness,{H2932} that they die{H4191} not in their uncleanness,{H2932} when they defile{H2930} my tabernacle{H4908} that is in the midst{H8432} of them.

  • King James Version with Strong's Numbers

    Thus shall ye separate{H5144}{(H8689)} the children{H1121} of Israel{H3478} from their uncleanness{H2932}; that they die{H4191}{(H8799)} not in their uncleanness{H2932}, when they defile{H2930}{(H8763)} my tabernacle{H4908} that is among{H8432} them.

  • Tyndale Bible (1526/1534)

    Make the childern of Israel to kepe them selues fro their vnclenesse, that they dye not in their vnclenesse: whe they haue defiled my habitacion that is amonge them.

  • Coverdale Bible (1535)

    Thus shal ye se that the childre of Israel kepe them selues from their vnclenesse, that they dye not in their vnclennesse, whan they defyle my habitacion, which is amoge you.

  • Geneva Bible (1560)

    Thus shal yee separate the children of Israel from their vncleannes, that they dye not in their vncleannesse, if they defile my Tabernacle that is among them.

  • Bishops' Bible (1568)

    Thus shall ye syft the chyldren of Israel from their vncleanenesse, that they dye not in their vncleanenesse: if they defyle my tabernacle that is among the.

  • Authorized King James Version (1611)

    Thus shall ye separate the children of Israel from their uncleanness; that they die not in their uncleanness, when they defile my tabernacle that [is] among them.

  • Webster's Bible (1833)

    "'Thus you shall separate the children of Israel from their uncleanness, so they will not die in their uncleanness, when they defile my tabernacle that is in their midst.'"

  • Young's Literal Translation (1862/1898)

    `And ye have separated the sons of Israel from their uncleanness, and they die not in their uncleanness, in their defiling My tabernacle which `is' in their midst.

  • American Standard Version (1901)

    Thus shall ye separate the children of Israel from their uncleanness, that they die not in their uncleanness, when they defile my tabernacle that is in the midst of them.

  • American Standard Version (1901)

    Thus shall ye separate the children of Israel from their uncleanness, that they die not in their uncleanness, when they defile my tabernacle that is in the midst of them.

  • Bible in Basic English (1941)

    In this way may the children of Israel be made free from all sorts of unclean conditions, so that death may not overtake them when they are unclean and when they make unclean my holy place which is among them.

  • World English Bible (2000)

    "'Thus you shall separate the children of Israel from their uncleanness, so they will not die in their uncleanness, when they defile my tabernacle that is in their midst.'"

  • NET Bible® (New English Translation)

    Summary of Purification Regulations for Bodily Discharges“‘Thus you are to set the Israelites apart from their impurity so that they do not die in their impurity by defiling my tabernacle which is in their midst.

Referenced Verses

  • Num 5:3 : 3 Both male and female shall you put out; outside the camp shall you put them, so that they do not defile their camps where I dwell among them.
  • Num 19:13 : 13 Whoever touches the dead body of any man who is dead, and does not purify himself, defiles the tabernacle of the LORD; and that soul shall be cut off from Israel: because the water of purification has not been sprinkled upon him, he shall be unclean; his uncleanness is still upon him.
  • Num 19:20 : 20 But the man who shall be unclean, and shall not purify himself, that soul shall be cut off from among the congregation, because he has defiled the sanctuary of the LORD: the water of purification has not been sprinkled upon him; he is unclean.
  • Ezek 5:11 : 11 Therefore, as I live, says the Lord GOD; Surely, because you have defiled my sanctuary with all your detestable things, and with all your abominations, therefore will I also diminish you; neither shall my eye spare, nor will I have any pity.
  • Ezek 23:38 : 38 Moreover this they have done to me: they have defiled my sanctuary on the same day, and have profaned my sabbaths.
  • Ezek 44:5-7 : 5 And the LORD said to me, Son of man, pay close attention, and see with your eyes, and hear with your ears all that I say to you concerning all the ordinances of the house of the LORD, and all its laws; and note well the entrance of the house, with every exit of the sanctuary. 6 And you shall say to the rebellious, to the house of Israel, Thus says the Lord GOD; O house of Israel, let it suffice you of all your abominations, 7 When you brought into my sanctuary strangers, uncircumcised in heart, and uncircumcised in flesh, to be in my sanctuary, to defile it, even my house, when you offer my bread, the fat and the blood, and they broke my covenant because of all your abominations.
  • Ezek 44:23 : 23 And they shall teach my people the difference between the holy and the profane, and cause them to discern between the unclean and the clean.
  • Dan 9:27 : 27 And he shall confirm the covenant with many for one week: and in the middle of the week, he shall cause the sacrifice and the offering to cease, and for the overspreading of abominations, he shall make it desolate, even until the consummation, and that determined shall be poured upon the desolate.
  • 1 Cor 3:17 : 17 If anyone defiles the temple of God, God will destroy him; for the temple of God is holy, which temple you are.
  • Heb 10:29 : 29 Of how much worse punishment, do you suppose, will he be thought worthy who has trampled the Son of God underfoot, counted the blood of the covenant by which he was sanctified a common thing, and insulted the Spirit of grace?
  • Heb 12:14-15 : 14 Pursue peace with all people, and holiness, without which no one will see the Lord: 15 Looking diligently lest anyone fall short of the grace of God; lest any root of bitterness springing up cause trouble, and by this many become defiled;
  • Jude 1:4 : 4 For certain men have crept in unnoticed, who long ago were designated for this condemnation, ungodly men, turning the grace of our God into lewdness and denying the only Lord God and our Lord Jesus Christ.
  • Deut 24:8 : 8 Take heed in the plague of leprosy, that you observe diligently, and do according to all that the priests, the Levites, shall teach you: as I commanded them, so you shall observe to do.
  • Ps 66:18 : 18 If I regard iniquity in my heart, the Lord will not hear me:
  • Lev 11:47 : 47 To make a difference between the unclean and the clean, and between the animal that may be eaten and the animal that may not be eaten.
  • Lev 13:59 : 59 This is the law of the plague of leprosy in a garment of wool or linen, either in the warp or woof, or any thing of skin, to pronounce it clean or to pronounce it unclean.
  • Lev 19:30 : 30 You shall keep my sabbaths and reverence my sanctuary: I am the LORD.
  • Lev 20:3 : 3 And I will set my face against that man, and will cut him off from among his people; because he has given of his offspring to Molech, to defile my sanctuary, and to profane my holy name.
  • Lev 21:23 : 23 Only he shall not go beyond the veil, nor come near the altar, because he has a blemish; that he does not profane my sanctuaries: for I the LORD do sanctify them.

Similar Verses (AI)

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  • Lev 15:32-33
    2 verses
    81%

    32 This is the law of him that has an issue, and of him whose seed goes from him, and is defiled by it;

    33 And of her that is sick of her impurity, and of him that has an issue, of the man, and of the woman, and of him that lies with her that is unclean.

  • Num 19:11-14
    4 verses
    81%

    11 He who touches the dead body of any man shall be unclean seven days.

    12 He shall purify himself with it on the third day, and on the seventh day he shall be clean: but if he does not purify himself the third day, then the seventh day he shall not be clean.

    13 Whoever touches the dead body of any man who is dead, and does not purify himself, defiles the tabernacle of the LORD; and that soul shall be cut off from Israel: because the water of purification has not been sprinkled upon him, he shall be unclean; his uncleanness is still upon him.

    14 This is the law when a man dies in a tent: all who come into the tent, and all who are in the tent, shall be unclean seven days.

  • Num 5:2-3
    2 verses
    81%

    2 Command the children of Israel that they remove from the camp every leper, and everyone who has a discharge, and whoever is defiled by the dead:

    3 Both male and female shall you put out; outside the camp shall you put them, so that they do not defile their camps where I dwell among them.

  • 80%

    20 When they go into the tabernacle of meeting, they shall wash with water, that they do not die; or when they come near the altar to minister, to burn an offering made by fire to the LORD:

    21 So they shall wash their hands and their feet, that they do not die: and it shall be a statute forever to them, to him and to his descendants throughout their generations.

  • Num 19:20-22
    3 verses
    79%

    20 But the man who shall be unclean, and shall not purify himself, that soul shall be cut off from among the congregation, because he has defiled the sanctuary of the LORD: the water of purification has not been sprinkled upon him; he is unclean.

    21 And it shall be a perpetual statute to them, that he who sprinkles the water of purification shall wash his clothes; and he who touches the water of purification shall be unclean until evening.

    22 And whatever the unclean person touches shall be unclean; and the soul who touches it shall be unclean until evening.

  • 30 And the priest shall offer the one for a sin offering, and the other for a burnt offering; and the priest shall make an atonement for her before the LORD for the issue of her uncleanness.

  • Lev 15:26-27
    2 verses
    79%

    26 Every bed where she lies all the days of her issue shall be to her as the bed of her separation: and whatever she sits upon shall be unclean, as the uncleanness of her separation.

    27 And whoever touches those things shall be unclean, and shall wash his clothes, and bathe himself in water, and be unclean until the evening.

  • 22 Neither must the children of Israel henceforth come near the tabernacle of the congregation, lest they bear sin, and die.

  • Lev 22:3-6
    4 verses
    78%

    3 Say unto them, Whoever he be of all your descendants throughout your generations, that approaches the holy things, which the children of Israel dedicate unto the LORD, having his uncleanness upon him, that soul shall be cut off from my presence: I am the LORD.

    4 Whoever of the descendants of Aaron is a leper, or has a discharge; he shall not eat of the holy things, until he is clean. And whoever touches anything that is unclean by the dead, or a man who has an emission of seed;

    5 Or whoever touches any creeping thing, by which he may be made unclean, or a man of whom he may take uncleanness, whatever uncleanness he has;

    6 The soul who has touched any such thing shall be unclean until evening, and shall not eat of the holy things, unless he washes his flesh with water.

  • Lev 15:1-3
    3 verses
    78%

    1 And the LORD spoke to Moses and to Aaron, saying,

    2 Speak to the children of Israel, and say to them, When any man has a discharge from his body, because of his discharge he is unclean.

    3 And this shall be his uncleanness in his discharge: whether his body runs with his discharge, or his body is stopped from his discharge, it is his uncleanness.

  • 10 that you may distinguish between holy and unholy, and between unclean and clean;

  • 9 They shall therefore keep my ordinance, lest they bear sin for it, and die thereby, if they profane it: I the LORD do sanctify them.

  • 32 And you shall bear no sin by reason of it, when you have heaved from it the best of it: neither shall you pollute the holy things of the children of Israel, lest you die.

  • Num 8:6-7
    2 verses
    77%

    6 Take the Levites from among the children of Israel and cleanse them.

    7 And thus shall you do to them, to cleanse them: Sprinkle water of purification upon them, let them shave all their flesh, and let them wash their clothes, and make themselves clean.

  • Lev 16:16-17
    2 verses
    77%

    16 And he shall make an atonement for the holy place, because of the uncleanness of the children of Israel, and because of their transgressions in all their sins: and so shall he do for the tabernacle of meeting, which remains among them in the midst of their uncleanness.

    17 And there shall be no man in the tabernacle of meeting when he goes in to make an atonement in the holy place, until he comes out, and has made an atonement for himself, and for his household, and for all the congregation of Israel.

  • 1 And the LORD said to Moses, Speak to the priests, the sons of Aaron, and say to them, None shall defile himself for the dead among his people:

  • Lev 15:15-16
    2 verses
    77%

    15 And the priest shall offer them, the one for a sin offering, and the other for a burnt offering; and the priest shall make an atonement for him before the LORD for his discharge.

    16 And if any man's seed of emission goes out from him, then he shall wash all his body in water, and be unclean until the evening.

  • 7 And he that touches the body of him that has the discharge shall wash his clothes, and bathe himself in water, and be unclean until the evening.

  • 24 Do not defile yourselves in any of these things: for in all these the nations are defiled, which I cast out before you.

  • 30 Therefore you shall keep my ordinance, that you do not commit any of these abominable customs, which were committed before you, and that you do not defile yourselves by them: I am the LORD your God.

  • 10 And whoever touches anything that was under him shall be unclean until the evening: and he that bears any of those things shall wash his clothes, and bathe himself in water, and be unclean until the evening.

  • Lev 15:21-22
    2 verses
    76%

    21 And whoever touches her bed shall wash his clothes, and bathe himself in water, and be unclean until the evening.

    22 And whoever touches anything that she sat upon shall wash his clothes, and bathe himself in water, and be unclean until the evening.

  • 24 And you shall wash your clothes on the seventh day, and you shall be clean, and afterward you shall come into the camp.

  • 19 And he shall sprinkle of the blood upon it with his finger seven times, and cleanse it, and sanctify it from the uncleanness of the children of Israel.

  • 11 And the priest who makes him clean shall present the man who is to be made clean, and those things, before the LORD, at the door of the tabernacle of the congregation:

  • 5 And whoever touches his bed shall wash his clothes, and bathe himself in water, and be unclean until the evening.

  • 15 After that, the Levites shall go in to perform the service of the tabernacle of meeting, and you shall cleanse them and offer them as a wave offering.

  • 32 And upon whatever any of them, when they are dead, does fall, it shall be unclean; whether it be any vessel of wood, or clothing, or skin, or bag, whatever vessel it is, in which any work is done, it must be put into water, and it shall be unclean until the evening; so it shall be cleansed.

  • 28 And he who burns them shall wash his clothes, and bathe his flesh in water, and afterward he shall come into the camp.

  • 25 And they shall not go near a dead person to defile themselves; but for a father, or for a mother, or for a son, or for a daughter, for a brother, or for a sister who has had no husband, they may defile themselves.

  • 15 And they shall not profane the holy things of the children of Israel, which they offer unto the LORD;

  • 16 But if he does not wash them, nor bathe his flesh, then he shall bear his iniquity.