Every garment, and every skin, whereon the semen is, shall be washed with water, and be unclean until the evening.
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Every garment, and every skin, whereon the semen is, shall be washed with water, and be unclean until the evening.
And every garment, and every skin, whereon is the seed of copulation, shall be washed with water, and be unclean until the even.
And any clothing and any leather on which is a lying of seed—and it shall be washed in water. And it shall be unclean until the evening.
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Every garment, and every skin, whereon the semen is, shall be washed with water, and be unclean until the evening.
Any clothing or leather on which there is an emission of semen must be washed with water, and it will remain unclean until evening.
Any clothing or leather on which there is an emission of semen must be washed with water, and it will remain unclean until evening.
And every garment, and every skin, whereon is the seed of copulation, shall be washed with water, and be unclean until the even.
And every garment, and every skin, whereon is the seed of copulation, shall be washed with water, and be unclean until the even.
And every garment, and every skin, whereon is the seed of copulation, shall be washed with water, and be unclean until the even.
And euery garment, and euery skinne whereupon shalbe issue of seede, shall be euen washed with water, and be vncleane vnto the euen.
The garment or skin that he weareth, he shall wash with water, and it shall be unclean until the evening.
`And any garment, or any skin on which there is seed of copulation, hath also been washed with water, and been unclean till the evening.
And any garment, or any skin on which there is seed [from] intercourse, has also been washed with water, and been unclean until the evening.
Every garment or leather on which there is semen must be washed with water; it will be unclean until evening.
And any clothing and any leather on which is a lying of seed—and it shall be washed in water. And it shall be unclean until the evening.
And every garment, and every skin, whereon the seed of copulation shall be, shall be washed with water, and be unclean until the even.
Every garment and every skin which the semen is on shall be washed with water, and be unclean until the evening.
And every garment, and every skin on which is the seed of copulation, shall be washed with water, and be unclean until the evening.
Any clothing or leather that the release of semen falls on must be washed with water, and it will remain unclean until the evening.
And any clothing or skin on which the seed comes is to be washed with water and be unclean till evening.
And every garment, and every skin, whereon is the flow of seed, shall be washed with water, and be unclean until the even.
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Notable vocabulary
The rarest word here is שִׁכְבַת layer H7902 — appearing just 9 times in the whole Hebrew Bible.
Shared distinctive vocabulary
שִׁכְבַת layer H7902 occurs in 9 verses of the Hebrew Bible. Also found in:
Grammatical profile
Verb forms
Repetition
A word recurs within this verse — often emphatic in Hebrew:
Hebrew & Septuagint length
In English translation the verse runs 20 words from the Hebrew and 26 from the Septuagint (LXX English) — closely comparable.
A rough comparison of the two English renderings, which tokenize alike — not a word-level alignment.
Word counts can differ between the Hebrew and the Greek without any difference in meaning — e.g. the Hebrew direct-object marker אֵת has no separate Greek word, and Greek often adds the article ὁ.
In the original languages it is 14 Hebrew tokens and 22 Greek tokens — but the two are counted differently (Hebrew bundles its prefixes and suffixes into one token; the Greek is in lemma form), so that isn’t a like-for-like length.
The same verse in the two great witnesses to the Old Testament, shown verse-for-verse.
These are two independent witnesses, not word-aligned to each other, and the Septuagint is shown in lemma (dictionary) form.
וְכָל בֶּ֣גֶד וְכָל ע֔וֹר אֲשֶׁר יִהְיֶ֥ה עָלָ֖יו שִׁכְבַת זָ֑רַע וְכֻבַּ֥ס בַּמַּ֖יִם וְטָמֵ֥א עַד הָעָֽרֶב
Every garment, and every skin, whereon the semen is, shall be washed with water, and be unclean until the evening.
World English Bible · Public Domain
καί πᾶς ἱμάτιον καί πᾶς δέρμα ἐπί ὅς ἐάν εἰμί ἐπί αὐτός κοίτη σπέρμα καί πλύνω ὕδωρ καί ἀκάθαρτος εἰμί ἕως ἑσπέρα
And every garment, and every skin on which there shall be the seed of copulation shall both be washed with water, and be unclean until evening.
LXX2012 (modern English Septuagint) · Public Domain
Hebrew: Westminster Leningrad Codex (CC BY 4.0). Greek: Septuagint (public domain); English from LXX2012 (modern English Septuagint) (Public Domain). How the Septuagint differs from the Hebrew →
The Targum is the ancient Jewish Aramaic paraphrase of the Hebrew Scriptures — an interpretive translation, not the Hebrew text itself. Onkelos (literal) and Pseudo-Jonathan (expansive) render the Torah, and Jonathan the Prophets. Coverage is partial: where no permissively-licensed English translation exists for a verse, only the Aramaic is shown. This is verse-level text, not a word-by-word alignment to the Hebrew.
וְכָל לְבוּשׁ וְכָל מְשַׁךְ דִי יְהֵי עֲלוֹהִי שִׁכְבַת זַרְעָא וְיִצְטַבַּע בְּמַיָא וִיהֵי מְסָאָב עַד רַמְשָׁא
(no public-domain English translation for this verse)
Targum Onkelos — Aramaic: “Onkelos Genesis” (public domain); “Onkelos Exodus” (public domain); “Onkelos Leviticus” (public domain); “Onkelos Numbers” (public domain); “Onkelos Deuteronomy” (public domain). English: “Sefaria Community Translation” (CC0 1.0 (public-domain dedication)); “J.W. Etheridge. The Targums of Onkelos and Jonathan Ben Uzziel on the Pentateuch. London: Longmans, Green, 1862” (public domain). Text via Sefaria.
וְכָל לְבוּשָׁא וְכָל צְלָא דִי יֶהֱוֵי עֲלוֹי שִׁכְבַת זַרְעָא וְיִצְטְבַּע בְּמוֹי וִיהֵי מְסָאָב עַד רַמְשָׁא
And any garment or skin on which seed may be shall be washed in water, and be unclean until evening;
Targum Pseudo-Jonathan — Aramaic: “Targum Jonathan on Genesis” (public domain); “Targum Jonathan on Exodus” (public domain); “Targum Jonathan on Leviticus” (public domain); “Targum Jonathan on Numbers” (public domain); “Targum Jonathan on Deuteronomy” (public domain). English: “The Targum of Jonathan ben Uzziel, trans. J. W. Etheridge, London, 1862” (public domain). Text via Sefaria.
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Leviticus, in the Pentateuch, opens this verse with 14 words (13 distinct Hebrew lemmas). Its most distinctive word is shᵉkâbâh (“layer”). A historical commentator’s framing appears above. Read the whole chapter for the surrounding context.
Commentary
Notes on Leviticus 15:17 from classic Christian and Jewish commentators (each source and its license shown beneath its notes). The classic Christian expositions comment on the surrounding passage and are grouped to its opening verse, so a note may address several verses; the Jewish commentaries on the Tanakh (Rashi and others) are per-verse, so they appear only where the commentator wrote on this verse.
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Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers
A Bible Commentary for English Readers, edited by Charles John Ellicott (1878–1897) — public domain. Text from a community e-Sword module.
John Gill's Exposition
John Gill's Exposition of the Whole Bible (1746–1763) — public domain (CC PDM 1.0). Text via the HelloAO Bible API.
Whedon's Commentary on the Bible
Daniel D. Whedon
Daniel D. Whedon (gen. ed.), Commentary on the Old and New Testaments (1874–1909) — public domain. Text from a community e-Sword module.