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Leviticus 15:11The Lord spoke to Moses and Aaron:Copy LinkKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AIFlowchartCross Refs:Amos 3:7Heb 1:1Lev 11:1Lev 13:1Ps 25:14
Leviticus 15:22“Speak to the Israelites and tell them, ‘When any man has a discharge from his body, his discharge is unclean.Copy LinkKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AIFlowchartCross Refs:2 Sam 3:29Lev 22:4Num 5:2Matt 9:20Deut 4:7-8Luke 8:43Mark 5:25Mark 7:20-23Neh 9:13-14Ps 147:19-20
Leviticus 15:33Now this is his uncleanness in regard to his discharge —whether his body secretes his discharge or blocks his discharge, he is unclean. All the days that his body has a discharge or his body blocks his discharge, this is his uncleanness.Copy LinkKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AIFlowchartCross Refs:Ezek 16:26Ezek 23:20Lev 12:3
Leviticus 15:44“‘Any bed the man with a discharge lies on will be unclean, and any furniture he sits on will be unclean.Copy LinkKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AIFlowchartCross Refs:1 Cor 15:33Eph 5:11Titus 1:15
Leviticus 15:55Anyone who touches his bed must wash his clothes, bathe in water, and be unclean until evening.Copy LinkKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AIFlowchartCross Refs:Lev 11:25Lev 16:26Lev 17:15Ezek 36:25Ezek 36:29Heb 10:22Heb 9:14Heb 9:26Isa 1:16Isa 22:14
Leviticus 15:66The one who sits on the furniture the man with a discharge sits on must wash his clothes, bathe in water, and be unclean until evening.Copy LinkKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AIFlowchartCross Refs:Isa 1:16Jas 4:8
Leviticus 15:77The one who touches the body of the man with a discharge must wash his clothes, bathe in water, and be unclean until evening.Copy LinkKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AIFlowchart
Leviticus 15:88If the man with a discharge spits on a person who is ceremonially clean, that person must wash his clothes, bathe in water, and be unclean until evening.Copy LinkKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AIFlowchartCross Refs:Jude 1:41 Tim 4:1-32 Pet 2:1-3Gal 1:8-9Isa 1:16Titus 1:9-10Jas 4:8
Leviticus 15:99Any means of riding that the man with a discharge rides on will be unclean.Copy LinkKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AIFlowchartCross Refs:Gen 31:34
Leviticus 15:1010Anyone who touches anything that was under him will be unclean until evening, and the one who carries those items must wash his clothes, bathe in water, and be unclean until evening.Copy LinkKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AIFlowchartCross Refs:Jas 4:8Lev 15:5Lev 15:8Ps 26:6
Leviticus 15:1111Anyone whom the man with the discharge touches without having rinsed his hands in water must wash his clothes, bathe in water, and be unclean until evening.Copy LinkKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AIFlowchart
Leviticus 15:1212A clay vessel which the man with the discharge touches must be broken, and any wooden utensil must be rinsed in water.Copy LinkKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AIFlowchartCross Refs:Lev 6:28Lev 11:32-332 Cor 5:1Phil 3:21Prov 1:21Prov 1:23Prov 3:21Ps 2:9
Leviticus 15:1313“‘When the man with the discharge becomes clean from his discharge he is to count off for himself seven days for his purification, and he must wash his clothes, bathe in fresh water, and be clean.Copy LinkKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AIFlowchartCross Refs:Lev 14:8Lev 8:33Lev 15:28Lev 15:52 Cor 7:1Exod 29:35Exod 29:37Ezek 36:25-29Jas 4:8Jer 33:8
Leviticus 15:1414Then on the eighth day he is to take for himself two turtledoves or two young pigeons, and he is to present himself before the Lord at the entrance of the Meeting Tent and give them to the priest,Copy LinkKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AIFlowchartCross Refs:Lev 12:82 Cor 5:21Heb 10:10Heb 10:12Heb 10:14Heb 7:26Lev 1:14Lev 12:6Lev 14:22-31Lev 15:29-30
Leviticus 15:1515and the priest is to make one of them a sin offering and the other a burnt offering. So the priest is to make atonement for him before the Lord for his discharge.Copy LinkKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AIFlowchartCross Refs:Lev 14:30-31Lev 4:26Eph 1:6Heb 1:3Lev 12:7Lev 14:18-20Lev 4:20Lev 4:31Lev 4:35Lev 5:7-10
Leviticus 15:1616“‘When a man has a seminal emission, he must bathe his whole body in water and be unclean until evening,Copy LinkKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AIFlowchartCross Refs:Deut 23:10-11Lev 22:4Lev 15:51 John 1:7
Leviticus 15:1717and he must wash in water any clothing or leather that has semen on it, and it will be unclean until evening.Copy LinkKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AIFlowchart
Leviticus 15:1818As for a woman whom a man goes to bed with, then has a seminal emission, they must bathe in water and be unclean until evening.Copy LinkKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AIFlowchartCross Refs:1 Cor 6:121 Cor 6:181 Pet 2:111 Sam 21:4-51 Thess 4:3-52 Tim 2:22Eph 4:17-19Eph 5:3-11Exod 19:15Heb 13:4
Leviticus 15:1919“‘When a woman has a discharge and her discharge is blood from her body, she is to be in her menstruation seven days, and anyone who touches her will be unclean until evening.Copy LinkKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AIFlowchartCross Refs:Lev 12:2Mark 5:25Matt 15:19Ezek 36:17Lam 1:17Lam 1:8-9Lev 12:4Lev 20:18
Leviticus 15:2020Anything she lies on during her menstruation will be unclean, and anything she sits on will be unclean.Copy LinkKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AIFlowchartCross Refs:Lev 15:4-91 Cor 15:33Eccl 7:26Prov 2:16-19Prov 22:27Prov 5:3-13Prov 6:24Prov 6:35Prov 7:10-27Prov 9:13-18
Leviticus 15:2121Anyone who touches her bed must wash his clothes, bathe in water, and be unclean until evening.Copy LinkKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AIFlowchartCross Refs:2 Cor 7:1Heb 9:26Isa 22:14Lev 15:5-6Rev 7:14
Leviticus 15:2222Anyone who touches any furniture she sits on must wash his clothes, bathe in water, and be unclean until evening.Copy LinkKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AIFlowchart
Leviticus 15:2323If there is something on the bed or on the furniture she sits on, when he touches it he will be unclean until evening,Copy LinkKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AIFlowchart
Leviticus 15:2424and if a man actually goes to bed with her so that her menstrual impurity touches him, then he will be unclean seven days and any bed he lies on will be unclean.Copy LinkKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AIFlowchartCross Refs:Lev 20:181 Pet 2:11Lev 18:19Ezek 18:6Heb 13:4Ezek 22:10Lev 15:331 Thess 5:22
Leviticus 15:2525“‘When a woman’s discharge of blood flows many days not at the time of her menstruation, or if it flows beyond the time of her menstruation, all the days of her discharge of impurity will be like the days of her menstruation—she is unclean.Copy LinkKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AIFlowchartCross Refs:Matt 9:20Luke 8:43Mark 5:25Lev 15:19-24Mark 7:20-23
Leviticus 15:2626Any bed she lies on all the days of her discharge will be to her like the bed of her menstruation, any furniture she sits on will be unclean like the impurity of her menstruation,Copy LinkKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AIFlowchart
Leviticus 15:2727and anyone who touches them will be unclean, and he must wash his clothes, bathe in water, and be unclean until evening.Copy LinkKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AIFlowchartCross Refs:1 John 1:71 Pet 1:18-19Ezek 36:25Ezek 36:29Heb 10:22Heb 9:14Lev 15:13Lev 15:21Lev 15:5-8Lev 17:15-16
Leviticus 15:2828“‘If she becomes clean from her discharge, then she is to count off for herself seven days, and afterward she will be clean.Copy LinkKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AIFlowchartCross Refs:Lev 15:13-151 Cor 1:301 Cor 6:11Eph 1:6-7Gal 3:13Gal 4:4Matt 1:21
Leviticus 15:2929Then on the eighth day she must take for herself two turtledoves or two young pigeons and she must bring them to the priest at the entrance of the Meeting Tent,Copy LinkKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AIFlowchart
Leviticus 15:3030and the priest is to make one a sin offering and the other a burnt offering. So the priest is to make atonement for her before the Lord from her discharge of impurity.Copy LinkKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AIFlowchart
Leviticus 15:3131“‘Thus you are to set the Israelites apart from their impurity so that they do not die in their impurity by defiling my tabernacle which is in their midst.Copy LinkKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Num 19:20Ezek 5:11Num 19:13Ezek 23:38Num 5:31 Cor 3:17Ezek 44:23Heb 10:29Heb 12:14-15Jude 1:4
Leviticus 15:3232This is the law for the one with a discharge: for the one who has a seminal emission and becomes unclean by it,Copy LinkKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Ezek 43:12Lev 11:46Lev 13:59Lev 14:2Lev 14:32Lev 14:54-15:18Num 19:14Num 5:29Num 6:13
Leviticus 15:3333for the one who is sick in her menstruation, for the one with a discharge, whether male or female, and for a man who goes to bed with an unclean woman.’”Copy LinkKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Lev 15:19Lev 20:18Lev 15:24-25
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