2 Samuel 11:4
Good News Translation
David sent messengers to get her; they brought her to him and he made love to her. (She had just finished her monthly ritual of purification.) Then she went back home.

New Revised Standard Version
So David sent messengers to get her, and she came to him, and he lay with her. (Now she was purifying herself after her period.) Then she returned to her house.

New American Bible
Then David sent messengers and took her. When she came to him, he took her to bed, at a time when she was just purified after her period; and she returned to her house.

Douay-Rheims Bible
And David sent messengers, and took her, and she came in to him, and he slept with her: and presently she was purified from her uncleanness:

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

And David sent messengers, and took her, and she came in to him, and he slept with her: and presently she was purified from her uncleanness:

sent messengers

Genesis 39:7 And after many days, his mistress cast her eyes on Joseph, and said: Lie with me.

Job 31:9-11 If my heart hath been deceived upon a woman, and if I have laid wait at my friend's door: . . .

Psalm 50:18 If thou didst see a thief thou didst run with him: and with adulterers thou hast been a partaker.

he lay

Psalm 51:1 Unto the end, a psalm of David, [2] When Nathan the prophet came to him, after he had sinned with Bethsabee. [3] Have mercy on me, O God, according to thy great mercy. And according to the multitude of thy tender mercies blot out my iniquity.

James 1:14,15 But every man is tempted by his own concupiscence, being drawn away and allured. . . .

she was, etc.

purified

Leviticus 12:2-5 Speak to the children of Israel, and thou shalt say to them: If a woman having received seed shall bear a man child, she shall be unclean seven days, according to the days of separation of her flowers. . . .

Leviticus 15:19-28 The woman, who at the return of the month, hath her issue of blood, shall be separated seven days. . . .

Leviticus 18:19 Thou shalt not approach to a woman having her flowers: neither shalt thou uncover her nakedness.

Context
David and Bathsheba
3And the king sent, and inquired who the woman was. And it was told him, that she was Bethsabee the daughter of Eliam, the wife of Urias the Hethite. 4And David sent messengers, and took her, and she came in to him, and he slept with her: and presently she was purified from her uncleanness:5And she returned to her house having conceived. And she sent and told David, and said: I have conceived.…
Cross References
James 1:14
But every man is tempted by his own concupiscence, being drawn away and allured.

James 1:15
Then, when concupiscence hath conceived, it bringeth forth sin. But sin, when it is completed, begetteth death.

Leviticus 12:2
Speak to the children of Israel, and thou shalt say to them: If a woman having received seed shall bear a man child, she shall be unclean seven days, according to the days of separation of her flowers.

Leviticus 15:18
The woman, with whom he copulateth, shall be washed with water: and shall be unclean until the evening.

Leviticus 18:19
Thou shalt not approach to a woman having her flowers: neither shalt thou uncover her nakedness.

2 Samuel 12:12
For thou didst it secretly: but I will do this thing in the sight of all Israel, and in the sight of the sun.

Psalm 51:1
Unto the end, a psalm of David, [2] When Nathan the prophet came to him, after he had sinned with Bethsabee. [3] Have mercy on me, O God, according to thy great mercy. And according to the multitude of thy tender mercies blot out my iniquity.

2 Samuel 11:3
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