Leviticus 15:18
Modern Translations
New International Version
When a man has sexual relations with a woman and there is an emission of semen, both of them must bathe with water, and they will be unclean till evening.

New Living Translation
After a man and a woman have sexual intercourse, they must each bathe in water, and they will remain unclean until the next evening.

English Standard Version
If a man lies with a woman and has an emission of semen, both of them shall bathe themselves in water and be unclean until the evening.

Berean Study Bible
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.

New American Standard Bible
If a man sleeps with a woman so that there is a seminal emission, they shall both bathe in water and be unclean until evening.

NASB 1995
If a man lies with a woman so that there is a seminal emission, they shall both bathe in water and be unclean until evening.

NASB 1977
‘If a man lies with a woman so that there is a seminal emission, they shall both bathe in water and be unclean until evening.

Amplified Bible
If a man lies with a woman so that there is a seminal emission, they shall both bathe in water and be unclean until evening.

Christian Standard Bible
If a man sleeps with a woman and has an emission of semen, both of them are to bathe with water, and they will remain unclean until evening.

Holman Christian Standard Bible
If a man sleeps with a woman and has an emission of semen, both of them are to bathe with water, and they will remain unclean until evening."

Contemporary English Version
After having sex, both the man and the woman must take a bath, but they still remain unclean until evening.

Good News Translation
After sexual intercourse both the man and the woman must take a bath, and they remain unclean until evening.

GOD'S WORD® Translation
"When a man has sexual intercourse with a woman and has an emission of semen, they must wash themselves. They will be unclean until evening.

International Standard Version
When a man has sexual relations with a woman and the man releases semen, both are to bathe with water, and they will remain unclean until evening."

NET Bible
When a man has sexual intercourse with a woman and there is a seminal emission, they must bathe in water and be unclean until evening.
Classic Translations
King James Bible
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.

New King James Version
Also, when a woman lies with a man, and there is an emission of semen, they shall bathe in water, and be unclean until evening.

King James 2000 Bible
The woman also with whom man shall lie and have an emission of semen, they shall both bathe themselves in water, and be unclean until the evening.

New Heart English Bible
If a man lies with a woman and there is an emission of semen, they shall both bathe themselves in water, and be unclean until the evening.

World English Bible
If a man lies with a woman and there is an emission of semen, they shall both bathe themselves in water, and be unclean until the evening.

American King James Version
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.

American Standard Version
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.

A Faithful Version
And the woman with whom a man shall lie with emission of semen shall both bathe in water and be unclean until sunset.

Darby Bible Translation
And a woman with whom a man lieth with seed of copulation -- they shall bathe in water, and be unclean until the even.

English Revised Version
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.

Webster's Bible Translation
The woman also with whom man shall lie with seed of copulation, they shall both bathe themselves in water, and be unclean until the evening.

Early Modern
Geneva Bible of 1587
If he that hath an issue of seede, do lie with a woman, they shall both wash themselues with water, and be vncleane vntill the euen.

Bishops' Bible of 1568
And if he yt hath such an issue of seede, do lye with a woman, they shall both washe them selues with water, and be vncleane vntyll the euen.

Coverdale Bible of 1535
A woman, by whom soch one lyeth, shall bathe hir self wt water, and be vncleane vntyll the euen.

Tyndale Bible of 1526
And yf a woma lye with soche a whone, they shall wash the selues with water and be vncleane vntyll even.
Literal Translations
Literal Standard Version
And a woman with whom a man lies with seed [from] intercourse, they also have bathed with water, and been unclean until the evening.

Young's Literal Translation
'And a woman with whom a man lieth with seed of copulation, they also have bathed with water, and been unclean till the evening.

Smith's Literal Translation
And a woman whom a man shall lie with her, with the effusion of seed, and they washed in water, and were unclean till the evening.

Catholic Translations
Douay-Rheims Bible
The woman, with whom he copulateth, shall be washed with water, and shall be unclean until the evening.

Catholic Public Domain Version
The woman with whom he has had sexual intercourse shall be washed with water, and she shall be unclean until evening.

Translations from Aramaic
Peshitta Holy Bible Translated
And a woman who will lie down with the man copulating of seed, they shall bathe in water and they shall be defiled until evening.

Lamsa Bible
If a woman also lie with a man having an emission of semen, they shall both bathe themselves in water and be unclean until the evening.

OT Translations
JPS Tanakh 1917
The woman also with whom a man shall lie carnally, they shall both bathe themselves in water, and be unclean until the even.

Brenton Septuagint Translation
And a woman, if a man shall lie with her with seed of copulation - they shall both bathe themselves in water and shall be unclean until evening.
















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