If it is on the bed, or on anything whereon she sits, when he touches it, he shall be unclean until the evening.
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If it is on the bed, or on anything whereon she sits, when he touches it, he shall be unclean until the evening.
And if it be on her bed, or on any thing whereon she sitteth, when he toucheth it, he shall be unclean until the even.
But if it on the bed or on furniture on which she is sitting, when he touches it, he shall be unclean until the evening.
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If it is on the bed, or on anything whereon she sits, when he touches it, he shall be unclean until the evening.
And whether it is a bed or furniture on which she was sitting, whoever touches it will be unclean until evening.
And whether it is a bed or furniture on which she was sitting, whoever touches it will be unclean until evening.
And if it be on her bed, or on any thing whereon she sitteth, when he toucheth it, he shall be unclean until the even.
And if it be on the bed, or on anything whereon she sitteth, when he toucheth it, he shall be unclean until the even.
And if it be on the bed, or on any thing whereon she sitteth, when he toucheth it, he shall be unclean until the even.
So that whether he touche her bed, or any thing whereon shee hath sit, he shalbe vncleane vnto the euen.
Whosoever shall touch any vessel on which she sitteth, shall wash his clothes: and himself being washed with water, shall be defiled until the evening.
`And if it `is' on the bed, or on the vessel on which she is sitting, in his coming against it, he is unclean till the evening.
And if it [is] on the bed, or on the vessel on which she is sitting, in his coming against it, he is unclean until the evening.
Whether it is on the bed or on anything on which she sits, if he touches it, that person will be unclean until evening.
But if it on the bed or on furniture on which she is sitting, when he touches it, he shall be unclean until the evening.
And if it be on the bed, or on anything whereon she sitteth, when he toucheth it, he shall be unclean until the even.
If it is on the bed, or on anything she sits on, when he touches it, he shall be unclean until the evening.
And if it be on her bed, or on any thing on which she sitteth, when he toucheth it, he shall be unclean until the evening.
Whether it's a bed or something she was sitting on, anyone who touches it will be unclean until the evening.
Anyone touching anything on the bed or on the thing on which she has been seated, will be unclean till evening.
And if he be on the bed, or on any thing whereon she sitteth, when he toucheth it, he shall be unclean until the even.
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Shared distinctive vocabulary
הַמִּשְׁכָּ֜ב bed H4904 occurs in 44 verses of the Hebrew Bible. Also found in:
Grammatical profile
Verb forms
Repetition
Words recur within this verse — often emphatic in Hebrew:
Hebrew & Septuagint length
In English translation the verse runs 23 words from the Hebrew and 31 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 16 Hebrew tokens and 25 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.
וְאִ֨ם עַֽל הַמִּשְׁכָּ֜ב ה֗וּא א֧וֹ עַֽל הַכְּלִ֛י אֲשֶׁר הִ֥וא יֹשֶֽׁבֶת עָלָ֖יו בְּנָגְעוֹ ב֑וֹ יִטְמָ֖א עַד הָעָֽרֶב
If it is on the bed, or on anything whereon she sits, when he touches it, he shall be unclean until the evening.
World English Bible · Public Domain
ἐάν δέ ἐν ὁ κοίτη αὐτός εἰμί ἤ ἐπί ὁ σκεῦος οὗ ἐάν καταἵζω ἐπί αὐτός ἐν ὁ ἅπτομαι αὐτός αὐτός ἀκάθαρτος εἰμί ἕως ἑσπέρα
And whether it be while she is on her bed, or on a seat which she may happen to sit upon when he touches her, he shall be unclean till 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.
וְאִם עַל מִשְׁכְּבָא הוּא אוֹ עַל מָנָא דִי הִיא יָתְבָא עֲלוֹהִי בְּמִקְרְבֵהּ בֵּהּ יְהֵי 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.
וְאִין עַל מִשְׁכָּבָא הוּא כְּדוֹבָא דְגוּפֵיהּ אוֹ עַל מָאנָא דְהִיא יַתְבָא עַל קְצָתֵיהּ בִּזְמַן מִיקְרְבֵיהּ בֵּיהּ יְהֵי מְסָאָב עַד רַמְשָׁא
And if the effusion of her body be upon her bed, or on a thing upon any part of which she sitteth, what time any one toucheth it, he shall 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 16 words (12 distinct Hebrew lemmas). Its most distinctive word is mishkâb (“bed”). A historical commentator’s framing appears above. Read the whole chapter for the surrounding context.
Commentary
Notes on Leviticus 15:23 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.
Rashi
Rabbi Shlomo Yitzchaki (Rashi)
Rashi on the Tanakh — English translations: “The Judaica Press complete Tanach with Rashi, translated by A. J. Rosenberg” (CC BY 4.0); “Pentateuch with Rashi's commentary by M. Rosenbaum and A.M. Silbermann, 1929-1934” (public domain); “The Metsudah Tanach series, Lakewood, N.J” (CC BY 4.0); and “The Book of Joshua, Metsudah Publications, 1997” (CC BY 4.0). Text via Sefaria.