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Lexicon :: Strong's H2930 - ṭāmē'

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טָמֵא
Transliteration
ṭāmē'
Pronunciation
taw-may'
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Part of Speech
verb
Root Word (Etymology)
A primitive root
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TWOT Reference: 809

Strong’s Definitions

טָמֵא ṭâmêʼ, taw-may'; a primitive root; to be foul, especially in a ceremial or moral sense (contaminated):—defile (self), pollute (self), be (make, make self, pronounce) unclean, × utterly.

KJV Translation Count — Total: 161x

The KJV translates Strong's H2930 in the following manner: unclean (74x), defile (71x), pollute (14x), uncleanness (1x), utterly (1x).

KJV Translation Count — Total: 161x
The KJV translates Strong's H2930 in the following manner: unclean (74x), defile (71x), pollute (14x), uncleanness (1x), utterly (1x).

  1. to be unclean, become unclean, become impure

    1. (Qal) to be or become unclean

      1. sexually

      2. religiously

      3. ceremonially

    2. (Niphal)

      1. to defile oneself, be defiled

        1. sexually

        2. by idolatry

        3. ceremonially

      2. to be regarded as unclean

    3. (Piel)

      1. to defile

        1. sexually

        2. religiously

        3. ceremonially

      2. to pronounce unclean, declare unclean (ceremonially)

      3. to profane (God's name)

    4. (Pual) to be defiled

    5. (Hithpael) to be unclean

    6. (Hothpael) to be defiled

Strong’s Definitions [?](Strong’s Definitions Legend)
טָמֵא ṭâmêʼ, taw-may'; a primitive root; to be foul, especially in a ceremial or moral sense (contaminated):—defile (self), pollute (self), be (make, make self, pronounce) unclean, × utterly.
STRONGS H2930: Abbreviations
† I. טָמֵא verb be or become unclean (Late Hebrew Pi. pollute (ceremonially); Aramaic טְמָא and especially derivatives, bdb037901 Pa. pollute; see RSK 307 ff.) —
Qal Perfect 3rd person masculine singular ט׳ Leviticus 11:25 + 22 times; 3rd person feminine singular טָֽמְאָה Leviticus 12:2 + 2 times; 2nd person feminine singular טָמֵאת Ezekiel 22:4; plural טָֽמְאוּ Leviticus 15:18; Imperfect יִטְמָא Leviticus 5:3 + 34 times; 3rd person feminine singular תִּטְמָא Leviticus 12:2 + 4 times; plural יִטְמְאוּ Psalm 106:39; Infinitive טָמְאָה Leviticus 15:32 + 6 times; — be or become unclean:
1. sexually, with בְּ Leviticus 18:20, 23 (H), Ezekiel 23:17; the land Leviticus 18:25, 27 (H).
2. religiously, with idols Ezekiel 22:3; with בְ Ezekiel 22:4; with necromancers Leviticus 19:31 (H); by sacrificing children to idols Psalm 106:39.
3. ceremonially, by contact with carcasses of unclean animals Leviticus 11:24, 27, 28, 31, 32, 33, 34 (twice in verse); Leviticus 11:35, 36, 40 (P); any carcass Leviticus 17:15 (H); eating of a carcass Leviticus 22:8 (H); by issues Leviticus 15:4, 9, 20 (twice in verse); Leviticus 15:24, 27, 32 (P); by contact with an unclean man Leviticus 5:3; Leviticus 15:4 (P), Leviticus 22:5 (H), or thing Leviticus 22:6 (H); by leprosy Leviticus 13:14, 46; Leviticus 14:36, 46 (P); by contact with the dead Numbers 6:12; Numbers 19:20 (P), Ezekiel 44:25, or with one unclean by such contact Numbers 19:22 (P), Haggai 2:13 (twice in verse); by contact with creeping things Leviticus 22:5 (H); certain animals were always unclean Leviticus 11:26, 27 (P). In ordinary cases of uncleanness טמא עד הערב unclean till even Leviticus 11:24, 25, 27, 28, 31, 32, 39, 40 (twice in verse); Leviticus 14:46; Leviticus 15:5; Leviticus 15:6; Leviticus 15:7; Leviticus 15:8; Leviticus 15:10 (twice in verse); Leviticus 15:11, 16, 17, 18, 19, 21, 22, 23, 27; Numbers 19:7; Numbers 19:8; Numbers 19:10; Numbers 19:21; Numbers 19:22 (all P), Leviticus 17:15; Leviticus 22:6 (H); but uncleanness lasted 7 days for woman bearings a son Leviticus 12:2 (twice in verse) (P), for lying with woman having an issue Leviticus 15:24 (P), or one coming in contact with the dead Numbers 19:11, 14, 16 (P); it lasted 14 days for a woman bearing a daughter Leviticus 12:5 (P).
Niph. Perfect 3rd person masculine singular נִטְמָא Hosea 5:3; Hosea 6:10; 3rd person feminine singular נִטְמְאָה Numbers 5:27, 28; נִטְמָ֑אָה Numbers 5:13 + 5 times; 1st person singular נִטְמֵאתִי Jeremiah 2:23; 2nd person masculine plural נִטְמֵתֶם Leviticus 11:43 (א omitted by scribal error; but Ges and others derive from טמה), etc. + 4 times perfect; Participle plural נִטְמְאִים Ezekiel 20:30, 31; — defile oneself, be defiled:
1. sexually, Leviticus 18:24 (H), Numbers 5:13, 14 (twice in verse); Numbers 5:20, 27, 28, 29 (P).
2. by idolatry conceived as whoredom Hosea 5:3; Hosea 6:10; Jeremiah 2:23; Ezekiel 20:30, 31, 43; Ezekiel 23:7, 13, 30.
3. ceremonially, by eating creeping things Leviticus 11:43.
4. be regarded as unclean (compare Pi. 4), probably נִטְמִינִוּ Job 18:3 we are accounted as unclean; metal. from; on another view see טמה.
Pi. Perfect טִמֵּא Genesis 34:5 + 15 times; suffix טִמְּאוֺ Leviticus 13:8 + 3 times; 2nd person feminine singular טִמֵּאת Ezekiel 5:11, etc. + 7 times Perfect; Imperfect יְטַמֵּא 2 Kings 23:8, etc. + 12 times Imperfect; Imperative plural טַמְּאוּ Ezekiel 9:7; Infinitive טַמֵּא Leviticus 13:44 + 2 times; suffix טַמְּאָם Leviticus 15:31, etc. + 4 times Infinitive; — defile:
1. sexually Genesis 34:5, 13, 27 (R), Ezekiel 18:6, 11, 15; Ezekiel 22:11; Ezekiel 33:26; the land by sexual impurities of the people Leviticus 18:28 (H); Israel by spiritual whoredom Ezekiel 23:17.
2. religiously: the land by bloodshed Numbers 35:34 (P); by allowing the dead body of the murderer to hang on the tree over night Deuteronomy 21:23; by idolatry Jeremiah 2:7; Ezekiel 36:17, 18; Israel defiled the sacred places by the sacrifice of children Leviticus 20:3 (H), Ezekiel 23:38, and God defiled him thereby Ezekiel 20:26; he defileth the sacred places by idolatry 2 Chronicles 36:14; Jeremiah 7:30 = Jeremiah 32:34, Ezekiel 5:11; the holy name of י׳ Ezekiel 43:7, 8; Josiah defiled the idolatrous places of worship by destroying them and making them unfit for use 2 Kings 23:8, 10, 13, 16; of Israel defiling idolatrous images Isaiah 30:22, and the nations the temple of God Psalm 79:1.
3. ceremonially: by ceremonial uncleanness, the sacred places Leviticus 15:31; Numbers 19:13, 20 (P); the camp Numbers 5:3 (P); the temple by dead bodies Ezekiel 9:7; the Nazirite's head of separation by a death occurring in his presence Numbers 6:9 (P); the people defile themselves (נפשׁתיכם) by creeping things Leviticus 11:44 (P).
4. pronounce or declare ceremonially unclean: the leper Leviticus 13:3, 8, 11, 15, 20, 22, 25, 27, 30, 44 (twice in verse); Leviticus 13:59 (P); unclean animals Leviticus 20:25 (H).
Pu. Participle נַפְשִׁי לֹא מְטֻמָּאָה Ezekiel 4:14 myself is not polluted.
Hithp. Imperfect יִטַּמָּא Leviticus 21:1 + 4 times; plural יִטַּמְּאוּ Ezekiel 14:11; Ezekiel 37:23; יִטַּמָּ֑אוּ Hosea 9:4; Ezekiel 44:25, etc. + 6 times Imperfect — reflexive, defile oneself: by eating of an unaccepted peace-offering Hosea 9:4; with בְּ Leviticus 18:24, 30 (H), Leviticus 11:43 (P), Ezekiel 14:11; Ezekiel 20:7, 18; Ezekiel 37:23; with לְ for a dead person Leviticus 21:1, 3, 11 (H), Numbers 6:7 (P); by Leviticus 11:24 (P); without preposition Leviticus 21:4 (H), Ezekiel 44:25.
Hothp. Perfect אַחֲרֵי אֲשֶׁר חֻטַּמָּ֑אָה Deuteronomy 24:4 after that she has been defiled (sexually); on form see Ges§ 54. 3.

† טָמְאָה noun feminine uncleanness (טָֽמְאָה, Baer, seems to rest upon a misinterpretation of the form) Micah 2:10 (so Thes MV SS); of ethical uncleanness, from wrong-doing.
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BLB Scripture Index of Brown-Driver-Briggs

Genesis

34:5; 34:5; 34:13; 34:27

Leviticus

5:3; 5:3; 11:24; 11:24; 11:24; 11:25; 11:25; 11:26; 11:27; 11:27; 11:27; 11:28; 11:28; 11:31; 11:31; 11:32; 11:32; 11:33; 11:34; 11:35; 11:36; 11:39; 11:40; 11:40; 11:43; 11:43; 11:43; 11:44; 12:2; 12:2; 12:2; 12:5; 13:3; 13:8; 13:8; 13:11; 13:14; 13:15; 13:20; 13:22; 13:25; 13:27; 13:30; 13:44; 13:44; 13:46; 13:59; 14:36; 14:46; 14:46; 15:4; 15:4; 15:5; 15:6; 15:7; 15:8; 15:9; 15:10; 15:11; 15:16; 15:17; 15:18; 15:18; 15:19; 15:20; 15:21; 15:22; 15:23; 15:24; 15:24; 15:27; 15:27; 15:31; 15:31; 15:32; 15:32; 17:15; 17:15; 18:20; 18:23; 18:24; 18:24; 18:25; 18:27; 18:28; 18:30; 19:31; 20:3; 20:25; 21:1; 21:1; 21:3; 21:4; 21:11; 22:5; 22:5; 22:6; 22:6; 22:8

Numbers

5:3; 5:13; 5:13; 5:14; 5:20; 5:27; 5:27; 5:28; 5:28; 5:29; 6:7; 6:9; 6:12; 19:7; 19:8; 19:10; 19:11; 19:13; 19:14; 19:16; 19:20; 19:20; 19:21; 19:22; 19:22; 35:34

Deuteronomy

21:23; 24:4

2 Kings

23:8; 23:8; 23:10; 23:13; 23:16

2 Chronicles

36:14

Job

18:3

Psalms

79:1; 106:39; 106:39

Isaiah

30:22

Jeremiah

2:7; 2:23; 2:23; 7:30; 32:34

Ezekiel

4:14; 5:11; 5:11; 9:7; 9:7; 14:11; 14:11; 18:6; 18:11; 18:15; 20:7; 20:18; 20:26; 20:30; 20:30; 20:31; 20:31; 20:43; 22:3; 22:4; 22:4; 22:11; 23:7; 23:13; 23:17; 23:17; 23:30; 23:38; 33:26; 36:17; 36:18; 37:23; 37:23; 43:7; 43:8; 44:25; 44:25; 44:25

Hosea

5:3; 5:3; 6:10; 6:10; 9:4; 9:4

Micah

2:10

Haggai

2:13

H2930

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Strong's Number H2930 matches the Hebrew טָמֵא (ṭāmē'),
which occurs 162 times in 142 verses in the WLC Hebrew.

Page 1 / 3 (Gen 34:5–Lev 15:21)

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 34:5 - Now Jacob heard that Shechem had defiled (violated) Dinah his daughter; but his sons were in the field with his livestock, so Jacob said nothing until they came in.

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Jacob’s sons answered Shechem and Hamor his father deceitfully, because Shechem had defiled and disgraced their sister Dinah.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 34:27 - Then Jacob’s [other] sons came upon those who were killed and looted the town, because their sister had been defiled and disgraced.

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Unchecked Copy BoxLev 5:3 - ‘Or if he touches human uncleanness—whatever kind it may be—and he becomes unclean, but he is unaware of it, when he recognizes it, he will be guilty.

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‘By [contact with] these you will become unclean; whoever touches their carcasses becomes unclean until the evening (dusk),

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Unchecked Copy BoxLev 11:25 - and whoever picks up any of their carcasses shall wash his clothes and be unclean until the evening.

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Unchecked Copy BoxLev 11:26 - ‘Concerning all the animals which divide the hoof, but do not have a split hoof, or which do not chew the cud, they are unclean to you; whoever touches them becomes unclean.

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Unchecked Copy BoxLev 11:27 - ‘Also all animals that walk on their paws, among all kinds of animals that walk on four legs, are unclean to you; whoever touches their carcasses becomes unclean until the evening,

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Unchecked Copy BoxLev 11:28 - and the one who picks up their carcasses shall wash his clothes and be unclean until the evening; they are unclean to you.

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Unchecked Copy BoxLev 11:31 - ‘These [creatures] are unclean to you among all that swarm; whoever touches them when they are dead becomes unclean until evening.

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Unchecked Copy BoxLev 11:32 - ‘Also anything on which one of them falls after dying becomes unclean, whether it is an article of wood or clothing, or a skin, or a sack—any article that is used—it must be put in water, and will be unclean until the evening; then it becomes clean.

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Unchecked Copy BoxLev 11:33 - ‘As for any earthenware container into which any of these [crawling things] falls, whatever is in it becomes unclean, and you shall break the container.

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Unchecked Copy BoxLev 11:34 - ‘Any of the food which may be eaten, but on which [unclean] water falls, shall become unclean, and any liquid that may be drunk in every container shall become unclean.

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Unchecked Copy BoxLev 11:35 - ‘Everything that part of their carcass falls on becomes unclean; an oven, or a small stove shall be smashed; they are unclean, and shall be unclean to you.

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Unchecked Copy BoxLev 11:36 - ‘Nevertheless a spring or a cistern (reservoir) collecting water shall be clean; but whoever touches one of these carcasses shall be unclean.

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‘If one of the animals that you may eat dies [of natural causes], whoever touches its carcass becomes unclean until the evening.

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Unchecked Copy BoxLev 11:40 - ‘And whoever eats some of its meat shall wash his clothes, and be unclean until evening; also whoever picks up its carcass shall wash his clothes, and be unclean until the evening.

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Unchecked Copy BoxLev 11:43 - ‘Do not make yourselves loathsome (impure, repulsive) by [eating] any swarming thing; you shall not make yourselves unclean by them so as to defile yourselves.

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Unchecked Copy BoxLev 11:44 - ‘For I am the LORD your God; so consecrate yourselves and be holy, for I am holy. You shall not make yourselves unclean with any of the swarming things that swarm or crawls on the ground.

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Unchecked Copy BoxLev 12:2 - “Speak to the children of Israel, saying,

‘If a woman conceives and gives birth to a male child, she shall be [ceremonially] unclean for seven days, unclean as during her monthly period.

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Unchecked Copy BoxLev 12:5 - ‘But if she gives birth to a female child, then she shall be unclean for two weeks, as during her monthly period, and she shall remain [intimately separated] sixty-six days to be purified from the blood.

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Unchecked Copy BoxLev 13:3 - “The priest shall look at the diseased spot on the skin of his body, and if the hair in the infection has turned white and the infection appears deeper than the skin of his body, it is an infection of leprosy; when the priest has looked at him, he shall pronounce him [ceremonially] unclean.

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Unchecked Copy BoxLev 13:8 - “The priest shall look, and if the scab has spread on the skin, then he shall pronounce him unclean; it is leprosy.

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Unchecked Copy BoxLev 13:11 - it is a chronic leprosy on the skin of his body, and the priest shall pronounce him unclean; he shall not isolate him because he is [clearly] unclean.

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Unchecked Copy BoxLev 13:14 - “But whenever raw flesh appears on him, he shall be unclean.

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Unchecked Copy BoxLev 13:15 - “The priest shall examine the raw flesh, and he shall pronounce him unclean; the raw flesh is unclean, it is leprosy.

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Unchecked Copy BoxLev 13:20 - and the priest shall look, and if it looks deeper than the skin and the hair on it has turned white, the priest shall pronounce him unclean; it is the disease of leprosy; it has broken out in the boil.

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Unchecked Copy BoxLev 13:22 - “If it spreads farther on the skin, then the priest shall pronounce him unclean; it is a disease.

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Unchecked Copy BoxLev 13:25 - then the priest shall examine it, and if the hair in the bright spot has turned white, and it appears deeper than the skin, then leprosy has broken out in the burn. So the priest shall pronounce him unclean; it is the disease of leprosy.

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Unchecked Copy BoxLev 13:27 - “And the priest shall examine him on the seventh day; if it is spreading farther on the skin, then the priest shall pronounce him unclean; it is leprosy.

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Unchecked Copy BoxLev 13:30 - the priest shall examine the diseased place; if it appears to be deeper than the skin, with yellow, thin hair in it, the priest shall pronounce him unclean; it is a scale, it is leprosy of the head or beard.

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Unchecked Copy BoxLev 13:44 - he is a leprous man; he is unclean; the priest shall most certainly pronounce him unclean; his disease is on his head.

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Unchecked Copy BoxLev 13:46 - “He shall remain [ceremonially] unclean as long as the disease is on him; he is unclean. He shall live alone; he shall live outside the camp.

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This is the law for a leprous disease in a garment of wool or linen, either in the warp or woof, or on anything made of leather, to pronounce it clean or unclean.

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Unchecked Copy BoxLev 14:36 - “The priest shall order that they empty the house before he goes in to examine the mark, so that everything in the house will not have to be declared unclean; afterward he shall go in to see the house.

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Unchecked Copy BoxLev 14:46 - “Moreover, whoever goes into the house during the time that it is quarantined becomes unclean until evening.

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Unchecked Copy BoxLev 15:4 - ‘Every bed on which the one who has the discharge lies becomes unclean, and everything on which he sits becomes unclean.

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Unchecked Copy BoxLev 15:5 - ‘Whoever touches his bed shall wash his clothes, and bathe in water, and be unclean until evening;

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Unchecked Copy BoxLev 15:6 - and whoever sits on anything on which the man with the discharge has been sitting shall wash his clothes and bathe in water, and be unclean until evening.

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Unchecked Copy BoxLev 15:7 - ‘Also whoever touches the man with the discharge shall wash his clothes and bathe in water, and be unclean until evening.

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Unchecked Copy BoxLev 15:8 - ‘And if he who has the discharge spits on one who is clean, then he shall wash his clothes and bathe in water, and be unclean until evening.

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Unchecked Copy BoxLev 15:9 - ‘Any saddle on which the man with the discharge rides becomes unclean.

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Unchecked Copy BoxLev 15:10 - ‘Whoever touches anything that has been under him shall be unclean until evening; and whoever carries those things shall wash his clothes and bathe in water, and be unclean until evening.

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Unchecked Copy BoxLev 15:11 - ‘Whomever the one with the discharge touches without rinsing his hands in water shall wash his clothes and bathe in water, and be unclean until evening.

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‘Now if any man has a seminal emission, he shall wash all his body in water, and be unclean until evening.

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Unchecked Copy BoxLev 15:17 - ‘Every garment and every leather on which there is semen shall be washed with water, and shall be unclean until evening.

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Unchecked Copy BoxLev 15:18 - ‘If a man lies with a woman so that there is a seminal emission, they shall both bathe in water and be unclean until evening.

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‘When a woman has a discharge, if her bodily discharge is blood, she shall continue in her menstrual impurity for seven days; and whoever touches her shall be unclean until evening.

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Unchecked Copy BoxLev 15:20 - ‘Everything on which she lies during her menstrual impurity shall be unclean; and everything on which she sits shall be unclean.

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Unchecked Copy BoxLev 15:21 - ‘Anyone who touches her bed shall wash his clothes and bathe in water, and be unclean until evening.

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