Leviticus 17:16
Good News Translation
If they do not, they must suffer the consequences.

New Revised Standard Version
But if they do not wash themselves or bathe their body, they shall bear their guilt.

Contemporary English Version
If you don't take a bath, you will suffer for what you did wrong.

New American Bible
If one does not wash his garments and bathe, that person shall bear the penalty.

Douay-Rheims Bible
But if he do not wash his clothes, and his body, he shall bear his iniquity.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

But if he do not wash his clothes, and his body, he shall bear his iniquity.

Leviticus 5:1 If any one sin, and hear the voice of one swearing, and is a witness either because he himself hath seen, or is privy to it: if he do not utter it, he shall bear his iniquity.

Leviticus 7:18 If any man eat of the flesh of the victim of peace offerings on the third day, the oblation shall be of no effect: neither shall it profit the offerer. Yea rather, whatsoever soul shall defile itself with such meat, shall be guilty of transgression.

Leviticus 19:8 And shall bear his iniquity, because he hath defiled the holy thing of the Lord. And that soul shall perish from among his people.

Leviticus 20:17,19,20 If any man take his sister, the daughter of his father, or the daughter of his mother, and see her nakedness, and she behold her brother's shame: they have committed a crime. They shall be slain, in the sight of their people, because they have discovered one another's nakedness. And they shall bear their iniquity. . . .

Numbers 19:19,20 And in this manner he that is clean shall purify the unclean on the third and on the seventh day. And being expiated the seventh day, he shall wash both himself and his garments, and be unclean until the evening. . . .

Isaiah 53:11 Because his soul hath laboured, he shall see and be filled: by his knowledge shall this my just servant justify many, and he shall bear their iniquities.

John 13:8 Peter saith to him: Thou shalt never wash my feet, Jesus answered him: If I wash thee not, thou shalt have no part with me.

Hebrews 9:28 So also Christ was offered once to exhaust the sins of many. The second time he shall appear without sin to them that expect him unto salvation.

1 Peter 2:24 Who his own self bore our sins in his body upon the tree: that we, being dead to sins, should live to justice: by whose stripes you were healed.

Context
Eating of Blood Forbidden
15The soul that eateth that which died of itself, or has been caught by a beast, whether he be one of your own country or a stranger, shall wash his clothes and himself with water, and shall be defiled until the evening: and in this manner he shall be made clean. 16But if he do not wash his clothes, and his body, he shall bear his iniquity.
Cross References
Leviticus 18:1
And the Lord spoke to Moses, saying:

Numbers 19:20
If any man be not expiated after this rite, his soul shall perish out of the midst of the church: because he hath profaned the sanctuary of the Lord, and was not sprinkled with the water of purification.

Leviticus 17:15
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