Leviticus 18:19
New International Version
“’Do not approach a woman to have sexual relations during the uncleanness of her monthly period.

New Living Translation
“Do not have sexual relations with a woman during her period of menstrual impurity.

English Standard Version
“You shall not approach a woman to uncover her nakedness while she is in her menstrual uncleanness.

Berean Standard Bible
You must not approach a woman to have sexual relations with her during her menstrual period.

King James Bible
Also thou shalt not approach unto a woman to uncover her nakedness, as long as she is put apart for her uncleanness.

New King James Version
‘Also you shall not approach a woman to uncover her nakedness as long as she is in her customary impurity.

New American Standard Bible
‘Also you shall not approach a woman to uncover her nakedness during her menstrual impurity.

NASB 1995
‘Also you shall not approach a woman to uncover her nakedness during her menstrual impurity.

NASB 1977
‘Also you shall not approach a woman to uncover her nakedness during her menstrual impurity.

Legacy Standard Bible
‘Also you shall not approach a woman to uncover her nakedness during her menstrual impurity.

Amplified Bible
‘Also you shall not approach a woman to uncover her nakedness during her menstrual impurity and ceremonial uncleanness.

Christian Standard Bible
“You are not to approach a woman during her menstrual impurity to have sexual intercourse with her.

Holman Christian Standard Bible
You are not to come near a woman during her menstrual impurity to have sexual intercourse with her.

American Standard Version
And thou shalt not approach unto a woman to uncover her nakedness, as long as she is impure by her uncleanness.

Aramaic Bible in Plain English
And a woman in menstruation of her uncleanness shall not present herself to uncover her nakedness.

Brenton Septuagint Translation
And thou shalt not go in to a woman under separation for her uncleanness, to uncover her nakedness.

Contemporary English Version
When a woman is having her monthly period, she is unclean, so don't have sex with her.

Douay-Rheims Bible
Thou shalt not approach to a woman having her flowers, neither shalt thou uncover her nakedness.

English Revised Version
And thou shalt not approach unto a woman to uncover her nakedness, as long as she is impure by her uncleanness.

GOD'S WORD® Translation
"Never have sexual intercourse with a woman while she is unclean during her monthly period.

Good News Translation
Do not have intercourse with a woman during her monthly period, because she is ritually unclean.

International Standard Version
"You are not to approach a menstruating woman to have sexual relations with her.

JPS Tanakh 1917
And thou shalt not approach unto a woman to uncover her nakedness, as long as she is impure by her uncleanness.

Literal Standard Version
And you do not draw near to a woman in the separation of her uncleanness to uncover her nakedness.

Majority Standard Bible
You must not approach a woman to have sexual relations with her during her menstrual period.

New American Bible
You shall not approach a woman to have intercourse with her while she is in her menstrual uncleanness.

NET Bible
"'You must not approach a woman in her menstrual impurity to have sexual intercourse with her.

New Revised Standard Version
You shall not approach a woman to uncover her nakedness while she is in her menstrual uncleanness.

New Heart English Bible
"'You shall not approach a woman to uncover her nakedness, as long as she is impure by her uncleanness.

Webster's Bible Translation
Also thou shalt not approach to a woman to uncover her nakedness, as long as she is put apart for her uncleanness.

World English Bible
“‘You shall not approach a woman to uncover her nakedness, as long as she is impure by her uncleanness.

Young's Literal Translation
'And unto a woman in the separation of her uncleanness thou dost not draw near to uncover her nakedness.

Additional Translations ...
Audio Bible



Context
Unlawful Sexual Relations
18You must not take your wife’s sister as a rival wife and have sexual relations with her while your wife is still alive. 19 You must not approach a woman to have sexual relations with her during her menstrual period. 20You must not lie carnally with your neighbor’s wife and thus defile yourself with her.…

Cross References
Leviticus 12:2
"Say to the Israelites, 'A woman who becomes pregnant and gives birth to a son will be unclean for seven days, as she is during the days of her menstruation.

Leviticus 15:24
If a man lies with her and her menstrual flow touches him, he will be unclean for seven days, and any bed on which he lies will become unclean.

Leviticus 18:18
You must not take your wife's sister as a rival wife and have sexual relations with her while your wife is still alive.

Leviticus 20:18
If a man lies with a menstruating woman and has sexual relations with her, he has exposed the source of her flow, and she has uncovered the source of her blood. Both of them must be cut off from among their people.

2 Samuel 11:4
Then David sent messengers to get her, and when she came to him, he slept with her. (Now she had just purified herself from her uncleanness.) Then she returned home.

Ezekiel 22:10
In you they have uncovered the nakedness of their fathers; in you they violate women during their menstrual impurity.


Treasury of Scripture

Also you shall not approach to a woman to uncover her nakedness, as long as she is put apart for her uncleanness.

Leviticus 15:19,24
And if a woman have an issue, and her issue in her flesh be blood, she shall be put apart seven days: and whosoever toucheth her shall be unclean until the even…

Leviticus 20:18
And if a man shall lie with a woman having her sickness, and shall uncover her nakedness; he hath discovered her fountain, and she hath uncovered the fountain of her blood: and both of them shall be cut off from among their people.

Ezekiel 18:6
And hath not eaten upon the mountains, neither hath lifted up his eyes to the idols of the house of Israel, neither hath defiled his neighbour's wife, neither hath come near to a menstruous woman,

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Leviticus 18
1. Unlawful marriages and unlawful lusts














(19) Also thou shalt not approach.--Literally, thou shalt not approach. The marriage laws are now followed by sexual impurities, which to some extent are suggested by the subjects that had necessarily to be discussed or hinted at in regulating the alliance in question.

As long as she is put apart.--Put apart, i.e., seven days. (See Leviticus 15:19.) For consorting with her without being aware of her condition the man contracted defilement for seven days (see Leviticus 15:24), and for committing this gross act presumptuously, both parties to it were visited with death. (See Leviticus 20:18.) Ezekiel refers to the transgression of this law as one of the heinous sins perpetrated by the people of Israel (Ezekiel 18:16; Ezekiel 22:10). . . .

Verse 19. - The marriage restrictions having been laid down, there follows in the five next verses the prohibition of five sexual impurities unconnected with marriage except by their subject-matter. The first is to approach unto a woman to uncover her nakedness, as long as she is put apart for her uncleanness, that is, either for seven days at the time of her ordinary illnesses (Leviticus 15:19), or any longer time that her illness might last (Leviticus 15:25), or for forty days after the birth of a man child (chapter 12:2-4), or for eighty days after the birth of a girl (Leviticus 12:5). The penalty for the offense within the seven days is death if committed willfully (Leviticus 20:18); if fallen into unknowingly, a ceremonial penalty of seven days' uncleanness is incurred (Leviticus 15:24). It is twice referred to by Ezekiel as a gross sin (Ezekiel 18:6; Ezekiel 22:10).

Parallel Commentaries ...


Hebrew
You must not
לֹ֣א (lō)
Adverb - Negative particle
Strong's 3808: Not, no

approach
תִקְרַ֔ב (ṯiq·raḇ)
Verb - Qal - Imperfect - second person masculine singular
Strong's 7126: To come near, approach

a woman
אִשָּׁ֖ה (’iš·šāh)
Noun - feminine singular
Strong's 802: Woman, wife, female

to have sexual relations with
לְגַלּ֖וֹת (lə·ḡal·lō·wṯ)
Preposition-l | Verb - Piel - Infinitive construct
Strong's 1540: To denude, to exile, to reveal

her
עֶרְוָתָֽהּ׃ (‘er·wā·ṯāh)
Noun - feminine singular construct | third person feminine singular
Strong's 6172: Nakedness

during her menstrual period.
בְּנִדַּ֣ת (bə·nid·daṯ)
Preposition-b | Noun - feminine singular construct
Strong's 5079: Rejection, impurity, personal, moral


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