Leviticus 17:16
New International Version
But if they do not wash their clothes and bathe themselves, they will be held responsible.’”

New Living Translation
But if they do not wash their clothes and bathe themselves, they will be punished for their sin.”

English Standard Version
But if he does not wash them or bathe his flesh, he shall bear his iniquity.”

Berean Standard Bible
But if he does not wash his clothes and bathe himself, then he shall bear his iniquity.”

King James Bible
But if he wash them not, nor bathe his flesh; then he shall bear his iniquity.

New King James Version
But if he does not wash them or bathe his body, then he shall bear his guilt.”

New American Standard Bible
But if he does not wash his clothes and bathe his body, then he shall bear the responsibility for his guilt.”

NASB 1995
“But if he does not wash them or bathe his body, then he shall bear his guilt.”

NASB 1977
“But if he does not wash them or bathe his body, then he shall bear his guilt.”

Legacy Standard Bible
But if he does not wash them or bathe his body, then he shall bear his guilt.”

Amplified Bible
But if he does not wash his clothes or bathe his body, he shall bear his guilt [for it will not be borne by the sacrifice of atonement].”

Christian Standard Bible
But if he does not wash his clothes and bathe himself, he will bear his iniquity.”

Holman Christian Standard Bible
But if he does not wash his clothes and bathe himself, he will bear his punishment.”

American Standard Version
But if he wash them not, nor bathe his flesh, then he shall bear his iniquity.

Aramaic Bible in Plain English
And if he will not wash his garments and will not bathe his flesh, he will carry his sin.'"

Brenton Septuagint Translation
But if he do not wash his garments, and do not bathe his body in water, then shall he bear his iniquity.

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

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

English Revised Version
But if he wash them not, nor bathe his flesh, then he shall bear his iniquity.

GOD'S WORD® Translation
If they don't wash their clothes and their bodies, they will be guilty of sin."

Good News Translation
If they do not, they must suffer the consequences.

International Standard Version
But if he doesn't wash or bathe his body, then he is to bear the punishment of his iniquity."

JPS Tanakh 1917
But if he wash them not, nor bathe his flesh, then he shall bear his iniquity.

Literal Standard Version
and if he does not wash, and does not bathe his flesh—then he has borne his iniquity.”

Majority Standard Bible
But if he does not wash his clothes and bathe himself, then he shall bear his iniquity.”

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

NET Bible
But if he does not wash his clothes and does not bathe his body, he will bear his punishment for iniquity.'"

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

New Heart English Bible
But if he doesn't wash them, or bathe his flesh, then he shall bear his iniquity.'"

Webster's Bible Translation
But if he doth not wash them, nor bathe his flesh; then he shall bear his iniquity.

World English Bible
But if he doesn’t wash them, or bathe his flesh, then he shall bear his iniquity.’”

Young's Literal Translation
and if he wash not, and his flesh bathe not -- then he hath borne his iniquity.'

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Context
Eating of Blood Forbidden
15And any person, whether native or foreigner, who eats anything found dead or mauled by wild beasts must wash his clothes and bathe with water, and he will be unclean until evening; then he will be clean. 16But if he does not wash his clothes and bathe himself, then he shall bear his iniquity.”

Cross References
Leviticus 18:1
Then the LORD said to Moses,

Numbers 19:20
But if a person who is unclean does not purify himself, he will be cut off from the assembly, because he has defiled the sanctuary of the LORD. The water of purification has not been sprinkled on him; he is unclean.


Treasury of Scripture

But if he wash them not, nor bathe his flesh; then he shall bear his iniquity.

Leviticus 5:1
And if a soul sin, and hear the voice of swearing, and is a witness, whether he hath seen or known of it; if he do not utter it, then he shall bear his iniquity.

Leviticus 7:18
And if any of the flesh of the sacrifice of his peace offerings be eaten at all on the third day, it shall not be accepted, neither shall it be imputed unto him that offereth it: it shall be an abomination, and the soul that eateth of it shall bear his iniquity.

Leviticus 19:8
Therefore every one that eateth it shall bear his iniquity, because he hath profaned the hallowed thing of the LORD: and that soul shall be cut off from among his people.

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Leviticus 17
1. The blood of slain beasts must be offered to the Lord at the tabernacle door
7. They must not offer to idols
10. All eating of blood is forbidden
15. and of all that dies by itself, or is torn














(16) Then he shall bear his iniquity.--If he neglects these acts of purification, and enters the sanctuary in a defiled state, or partakes of the sacrificial meal, he is to incur the penalty of excision for the former act, and to be beaten with stripes for the latter, according to the interpretation given to this law in the time of Christ.



Parallel Commentaries ...


Hebrew
But if
וְאִם֙ (wə·’im)
Conjunctive waw | Conjunction
Strong's 518: Lo!, whether?, if, although, Oh that!, when, not

he does not
לֹ֣א (lō)
Adverb - Negative particle
Strong's 3808: Not, no

wash
יְכַבֵּ֔ס (yə·ḵab·bês)
Verb - Piel - Imperfect - third person masculine singular
Strong's 3526: To trample, to wash

his clothes and bathe
יִרְחָ֑ץ (yir·ḥāṣ)
Verb - Qal - Imperfect - third person masculine singular
Strong's 7364: To wash, wash off or away, bathe

himself,
וּבְשָׂר֖וֹ (ū·ḇə·śā·rōw)
Conjunctive waw | Noun - masculine singular construct | third person masculine singular
Strong's 1320: Flesh, body, person, the pudenda of a, man

then he shall bear
וְנָשָׂ֖א (wə·nā·śā)
Conjunctive waw | Verb - Qal - Conjunctive perfect - third person masculine singular
Strong's 5375: To lift, carry, take

his iniquity.”
עֲוֺנֽוֹ׃ (‘ă·wō·nōw)
Noun - common singular construct | third person masculine singular
Strong's 5771: Iniquity, guilt, punishment for iniquity


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