Leviticus 15:18
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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:

Lexicon
If a man
אִ֛ישׁ (’îš)
Noun - masculine singular
Strong's Hebrew 376: A man as an individual, a male person

lies with
יִשְׁכַּ֥ב (yiš·kaḇ)
Verb - Qal - Imperfect - third person masculine singular
Strong's Hebrew 7901: To lie down

a woman
וְאִשָּׁ֕ה (wə·’iš·šāh)
Conjunctive waw | Noun - feminine singular
Strong's Hebrew 802: Woman, wife, female

and there is an emission
שִׁכְבַת־ (šiḵ·ḇaṯ-)
Noun - feminine singular construct
Strong's Hebrew 7902: (act of) lying, a layer

of semen,
זָ֑רַע (zā·ra‘)
Noun - masculine singular
Strong's Hebrew 2233: Seed, fruit, plant, sowing-time, posterity

both must bathe
וְרָחֲצ֣וּ (wə·rā·ḥă·ṣū)
Conjunctive waw | Verb - Qal - Conjunctive perfect - third person common plural
Strong's Hebrew 7364: To wash, wash off or away, bathe

with water,
בַמַּ֔יִם (ḇam·ma·yim)
Preposition-b, Article | Noun - masculine plural
Strong's Hebrew 4325: Water, juice, urine, semen

and they will remain unclean
וְטָמְא֖וּ (wə·ṭā·mə·’ū)
Conjunctive waw | Verb - Qal - Conjunctive perfect - third person common plural
Strong's Hebrew 2930: To be or become unclean

until
עַד־ (‘aḏ-)
Preposition
Strong's Hebrew 5704: As far as, even to, up to, until, while

evening.
הָעָֽרֶב׃ (hā·‘ā·reḇ)
Article | Noun - masculine singular
Strong's Hebrew 6153: Evening


Additional Translations
If a man lies with a woman and there is an emission of semen, both must bathe with water, and they will remain unclean until evening.The woman also with whom man shall lie with seed of copulation, they shall both bathe themselves in water, and be unclean until the even.

The woman also with whom a man shall lie with seed of copulation, they shall both bathe themselves in water, and be unclean until the even.

And a woman, if a man shall lie with her with seed of copulation—they shall both bathe themselves in water and shall be unclean until evening.

And a woman with whom a man lieth with seed of copulation -- they shall bathe in water, and be unclean until the even.

The woman also with whom a man shall lie with seed of copulation, they shall both bathe themselves in water, and be unclean until the even.

The woman also with whom man shall lie with seed of copulation, they shall both bathe themselves in water, and be unclean until the evening.

If a man lies with a woman and there is an emission of semen, they shall both bathe themselves in water, and be unclean until the evening.

'And a woman with whom a man lieth with seed of copulation, they also have bathed with water, and been unclean till the evening.
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