Leviticus 15:18

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As for a woman whom a man goes to bed with, then has a seminal emission, they must bathe in water and be unclean until evening.

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  • Exod 19:15 : 15 He said to the people,“Be ready for the third day. Do not approach your wives for marital relations.”
  • Lev 15:5 : 5 Anyone who touches his bed must wash his clothes, bathe in water, and be unclean until evening.
  • 1 Sam 21:4-5 : 4 The priest replied to David,“I don’t have any ordinary bread at my disposal. Only holy bread is available, and then only if your soldiers have abstained from relations with women.” 5 David said to the priest,“Certainly women have been kept away from us, just as on previous occasions when I have set out. The soldiers’ equipment is holy, even on an ordinary journey. How much more so will they be holy today, along with their equipment!”
  • Ps 51:5 : 5 Look, I was guilty of sin from birth, a sinner the moment my mother conceived me.
  • 1 Cor 6:12 : 12 Flee Sexual Immorality“All things are lawful for me”– but not everything is beneficial.“All things are lawful for me”– but I will not be controlled by anything.
  • 1 Cor 6:18 : 18 Flee sexual immorality!“Every sin a person commits is outside of the body”– but the immoral person sins against his own body.
  • Eph 4:17-19 : 17 Live in Holiness So I say this, and insist in the Lord, that you no longer live as the Gentiles do, in the futility of their thinking. 18 They are darkened in their understanding, being alienated from the life of God because of the ignorance that is in them due to the hardness of their hearts. 19 Because they are callous, they have given themselves over to indecency for the practice of every kind of impurity with greediness.
  • Eph 5:3-9 : 3 But among you there must not be either sexual immorality, impurity of any kind, or greed, as these are not fitting for the saints. 4 Neither should there be vulgar speech, foolish talk, or coarse jesting– all of which are out of character– but rather thanksgiving. 5 For you can be confident of this one thing: that no person who is immoral, impure, or greedy(such a person is an idolater) has any inheritance in the kingdom of Christ and God. 6 Live in the Light Let nobody deceive you with empty words, for because of these things God’s wrath comes on the sons of disobedience. 7 Therefore do not be sharers with them, 8 for you were at one time darkness, but now you are light in the Lord. Live like children of light– 9 for the fruit of the light consists in all goodness, righteousness, and truth– 10 trying to learn what is pleasing to the Lord. 11 Do not participate in the unfruitful deeds of darkness, but rather expose them.
  • 1 Thess 4:3-5 : 3 For this is God’s will: that you become holy, that you keep away from sexual immorality, 4 that each of you know how to possess his own body in holiness and honor, 5 not in lustful passion like the Gentiles who do not know God.
  • 2 Tim 2:22 : 22 But keep away from youthful passions, and pursue righteousness, faithfulness, love, and peace, in company with others who call on the Lord from a pure heart.
  • Heb 13:4 : 4 Marriage must be honored among all and the marriage bed kept undefiled, for God will judge sexually immoral people and adulterers.
  • 1 Pet 2:11 : 11 Dear friends, I urge you as foreigners and exiles to keep away from fleshly desires that do battle against the soul,

Similar Verses (AI)

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  • Lev 15:15-17
    3 verses
    91%

    15and the priest is to make one of them a sin offering and the other a burnt offering. So the priest is to make atonement for him before the LORD for his discharge.

    16“‘When a man has a seminal emission, he must bathe his whole body in water and be unclean until evening,

    17and he must wash in water any clothing or leather that has semen on it, and it will be unclean until evening.

  • Lev 15:19-28
    10 verses
    86%

    19Female Bodily Discharges“‘When a woman has a discharge and her discharge is blood from her body, she is to be in her menstruation seven days, and anyone who touches her will be unclean until evening.

    20Anything she lies on during her menstruation will be unclean, and anything she sits on will be unclean.

    21Anyone who touches her bed must wash his clothes, bathe in water, and be unclean until evening.

    22Anyone who touches any furniture she sits on must wash his clothes, bathe in water, and be unclean until evening.

    23If there is something on the bed or on the furniture she sits on, when he touches it he will be unclean until evening,

    24and if a man actually goes to bed with her so that her menstrual impurity touches him, then he will be unclean seven days and any bed he lies on will be unclean.

    25“‘When a woman’s discharge of blood flows many days not at the time of her menstruation, or if it flows beyond the time of her menstruation, all the days of her discharge of impurity will be like the days of her menstruation– she is unclean.

    26Any bed she lies on all the days of her discharge will be to her like the bed of her menstruation, any furniture she sits on will be unclean like the impurity of her menstruation,

    27and anyone who touches them will be unclean, and he must wash his clothes, bathe in water, and be unclean until evening.

    28Purity Regulations from Female Bodily Discharges“‘If she becomes clean from her discharge, then she is to count off for herself seven days, and afterward she will be clean.

  • Lev 15:2-13
    12 verses
    83%

    2“Speak to the Israelites and tell them,‘When any man has a discharge from his body, his discharge is unclean.

    3Now this is his uncleanness in regard to his discharge– whether his body secretes his discharge or blocks his discharge, he is unclean. All the days that his body has a discharge or his body blocks his discharge, this is his uncleanness.

    4“‘Any bed the man with a discharge lies on will be unclean, and any furniture he sits on will be unclean.

    5Anyone who touches his bed must wash his clothes, bathe in water, and be unclean until evening.

    6The one who sits on the furniture the man with a discharge sits on must wash his clothes, bathe in water, and be unclean until evening.

    7The one who touches the body of the man with a discharge must wash his clothes, bathe in water, and be unclean until evening.

    8If the man with a discharge spits on a person who is ceremonially clean, that person must wash his clothes, bathe in water, and be unclean until evening.

    9Any means of riding the man with a discharge rides on will be unclean.

    10Anyone who touches anything that was under him will be unclean until evening, and the one who carries those items must wash his clothes, bathe in water, and be unclean until evening.

    11Anyone whom the man with the discharge touches without having rinsed his hands in water must wash his clothes, bathe in water, and be unclean until evening.

    12A clay vessel which the man with the discharge touches must be broken, and any wooden utensil must be rinsed in water.

    13Purity Regulations for Male Bodily Discharges“‘When the man with the discharge becomes clean from his discharge he is to count off for himself seven days for his purification, and he must wash his clothes, bathe in fresh water, and be clean.

  • Lev 20:18
    82%

    18If a man goes to bed with a menstruating woman and uncovers her nakedness, he has laid bare her fountain of blood and she has exposed the fountain of her blood, so both of them must be cut off from the midst of their people.

  • Lev 15:31-33
    3 verses
    82%

    31Summary 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.

    32This is the law for the one with a discharge: for the one who has a seminal emission and becomes unclean by it,

    33for the one who is sick in her menstruation, for the one with a discharge, whether male or female, and for a man who goes to bed with an unclean woman.’”

  • Lev 18:19-20
    2 verses
    80%

    19“‘You must not approach a woman in her menstrual impurity to have sexual relations with her.

    20You must not have sexual relations with the wife of your fellow citizen to become unclean with her.

  • Num 19:7-8
    2 verses
    79%

    7Then the priest must wash his clothes and bathe himself in water, and afterward he may come into the camp, but the priest will be ceremonially unclean until evening.

    8The one who burns it must wash his clothes in water and bathe himself in water. He will be ceremonially unclean until evening.

  • Num 19:19-22
    4 verses
    79%

    19And the clean person must sprinkle the unclean on the third day and on the seventh day; and on the seventh day he must purify him, and then he must wash his clothes, and bathe in water, and he will be clean in the evening.

    20But the man who is unclean and does not purify himself, that person must be cut off from among the community, because he has polluted the sanctuary of the LORD; the water of purification was not sprinkled on him, so he is unclean.

    21“‘So this will be a perpetual ordinance for them: The one who sprinkles the water of purification must wash his clothes, and the one who touches the water of purification will be unclean until evening.

    22And whatever the unclean person touches will be unclean, and the person who touches it will be unclean until evening.’”

  • Lev 22:5-6
    2 verses
    77%

    5or a man who touches a swarming thing by which he becomes unclean, or touches a person by which he becomes unclean, whatever that person’s impurity–

    6the person who touches any of these will be unclean until evening and must not eat from the holy offerings unless he has bathed his body in water.

  • Num 5:28
    76%

    28But if the woman has not defiled herself, and is clean, then she will be free of ill effects and will be able to bear children.

  • Lev 12:2
    75%

    2“Tell the Israelites,‘When a woman produces offspring and bears a male child, she will be unclean seven days, as she is unclean during the days of her menstruation.

  • Lev 19:20
    75%

    20Lying with a Slave Woman“‘When a man goes to bed with a woman for intercourse, although she is a slave woman designated for another man and she has not yet been ransomed, or freedom has not been granted to her, there will be an obligation to pay compensation. They must not be put to death, because she was not free.

  • Num 5:3
    75%

    3You must expel both men and women; you must put them outside the camp, so that they will not defile their camps, among which I live.”

  • Lev 11:25
    75%

    25and anyone who carries their carcass must wash his clothes and will be unclean until the evening.

  • Num 5:13
    74%

    13and a man goes to bed with her, for sexual relations, without her husband knowing it, and it is hidden that she has defiled herself, since there was no witness against her, nor was she caught–

  • Lev 11:28
    74%

    28and the one who carries their carcass must wash his clothes and be unclean until the evening; they are unclean to you.

  • Lev 17:15-16
    2 verses
    74%

    15Regulations for Eating Carcasses“‘Any person who eats an animal that has died of natural causes or an animal torn by beasts, whether a native citizen or a resident foreigner, must wash his clothes, bathe in water, and be unclean until evening; then he becomes clean.

    16But if he does not wash his clothes and does not bathe his body, he will bear his punishment for iniquity.’”

  • Lev 11:32
    73%

    32Also, anything they fall on when they die will become unclean– any wood vessel or garment or article of leather or sackcloth. Any such vessel with which work is done must be immersed in water and will be unclean until the evening. Then it will become clean.

  • Lev 18:24
    73%

    24Warning against the Abominations of the Nations“‘Do not defile yourselves with any of these things, for the nations which I am about to drive out before you have been defiled with all these things.