Leviticus 15:18
Good News Translation
After sexual intercourse both the man and the woman must take a bath, and they remain unclean until evening.

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

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

New American Bible
If a man has sexual relations with a woman, they shall both bathe in water and be unclean until evening.

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

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The woman, with whom he copulateth, shall be washed with water: and shall be unclean until the evening.

the woman

Leviticus 15:5 If any man touch his bed, he shall wash his clothes and being washed with water, he shall be unclean until the evening.

Ephesians 4:17-19 This then I say and testify in the Lord: That henceforward you walk not as also the Gentiles walk in the vanity of their mind: . . .

Ephesians 5:3-11 But fornication and all uncleanness or covetousness, let it not so much as be named among you, as becometh saints: . . .

2 Timothy 2:22 But flee thou youthful desires, and pursue justice, faith, charity and peace with them that call on the Lord out of a pure heart.

1 Peter 2:11 Dearly beloved, I beseech you, as strangers and pilgrims, to refrain yourselves from carnal desires which war against the soul,

unclean

Exodus 19:15 He said to them: Be ready against the third day, and come not near your wives.

1 Samuel 21:4,5 And the priest answered David, saying: I have no common bread at hand, but only holy bread, if the young men be clean, especially from women? . . .

Psalm 51:5 For behold I was conceived in iniquities; and in sins did my mother conceive me.

1 Corinthians 6:12,18 All things are lawful to me: but all things are not expedient. All things are lawful to me: but I will not be brought under the power of any. . . .

1 Thessalonians 4:3-5 For this is the will of God, your sanctification: That you should abstain from fornication: . . .

Hebrews 13:4 Marriage honourable in all, and the bed undefiled. For fornicators and adulterers God will judge.

Context
The Cleansing of Men
17The garment or skin that he weareth, he shall wash with water: and it shall be unclean until the evening. 18The woman, with whom he copulateth, shall be washed with water: and shall be unclean until the evening.
Cross References
Leviticus 15:16
The man from whom the seed of copulation goeth out, shall wash all his body with water: and he shall be unclean until the evening.

Leviticus 15:17
The garment or skin that he weareth, he shall wash with water: and it shall be unclean until the evening.

1 Samuel 21:4
And the priest answered David, saying: I have no common bread at hand, but only holy bread, if the young men be clean, especially from women?

2 Samuel 11:4
And David sent messengers, and took her, and she came in to him, and he slept with her: and presently she was purified from her uncleanness:

Leviticus 15:17
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