Whoever touches his bed shall wash his clothes, and bathe himself in water, and be unclean until the evening.
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Whoever touches his bed shall wash his clothes, and bathe himself in water, and be unclean until the evening.
And whosoever toucheth his bed shall wash his clothes, and bathe himself in water, and be unclean until the even.
And a man who touches his bed shall wash his clothes. And he shall bathe with water, and he shall be unclean until the evening.
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Whoever touches his bed shall wash his clothes, and bathe himself in water, and be unclean until the evening.
Anyone who touches his bed must wash his clothes and bathe with water, and he will be unclean until evening.
Anyone who touches his bed must wash his clothes and bathe with water, and he will be unclean until evening.
And whosoever toucheth his bed shall wash his clothes, and bathe himself in water, and be unclean until the even.
And whosoever toucheth his bed shall wash his clothes, and bathe himself in water, and be unclean until the even.
And whosoever toucheth his bed shall wash his clothes, and bathe himself in water, and be unclean until the even.
Whosoeuer also toucheth his bed, shall wash his clothes, and wash himselfe in water, and shall be vncleane vntill the euen.
If ally man touch his bed, he shall wash his clothes: and being washed with water, he shall be unclean until the evening.
and any one who cometh against his bed doth wash his garments, and hath bathed with water, and been unclean till the evening.
and anyone who comes against his bed washes his garments, and has bathed with water, and been unclean until the evening.
Whoever touches his bed must wash his clothes and bathe himself in water, and be unclean until evening.
And a man who touches his bed shall wash his clothes. And he shall bathe with water, and he shall be unclean until the evening.
And whoever toucheth his bed shall wash his garments, and bathe in water, and be unclean until the even.
Whoever touches his bed shall wash his clothes, and bathe himself in water, and be unclean until the evening.
And whoever toucheth his bed, shall wash his clothes, and bathe himself in water, and be unclean until the evening.
Anyone who touches his bed has to wash their clothes, and wash themselves with water, and they will be unclean until the evening.
And anyone touching his bed is to have his clothing washed and his body bathed in water and be unclean till evening.
And whosoever toucheth his bed shall wash his clothes, and bathe himself in water, and be unclean until the even.
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בְּמִשְׁכָּב֑וֹ bed H4904 occurs in 44 verses of the Hebrew Bible. Also found in:
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Hebrew & Septuagint length
In English translation the verse runs 19 words from the Hebrew and 23 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 11 Hebrew tokens and 20 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.
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The same verse in the two great witnesses to the Old Testament, shown verse-for-verse.
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וְאִ֕ישׁ אֲשֶׁ֥ר יִגַּ֖ע בְּמִשְׁכָּב֑וֹ יְכַבֵּ֧ס בְּגָדָ֛יו וְרָחַ֥ץ בַּמַּ֖יִם וְטָמֵ֥א עַד הָעָֽרֶב
Whoever touches his bed shall wash his clothes, and bathe himself in water, and be unclean until the evening.
World English Bible · Public Domain
καί ἄνθρωπος ὅς ἄν ἅπτομαι ὁ κοίτη αὐτός πλύνω ὁ ἱμάτιον αὐτός καί λούω ὕδωρ καί ἀκάθαρτος εἰμί ἕως ἑσπέρα
And the man who shall touch his bed, shall wash his garments, and bathe himself in water, and 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.
וּגְבַר דִי יִקְרַב בְּמִשְׁכְּבֵהּ יְצַבַּע לְבוּשׁוֹהִי וְיַסְחֵי בְמַיָא 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.
וּגְבַר דִי יִקְרַב בְּמַשְׁכְּבֵיהּ יְצַבַּע לְבוּשׁוֹי וְיַסְחֵי בְּאַרְבְּעִין סָאוִוין דְמוֹי וִיהֵי מְסָאָב עַד רַמְשָׁא
And the man who toucheth his bed shall wash his clothes, and wash himself in forty seahs of water, and 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 11 words (11 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 15:5 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.
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.