Leviticus 20:18 - New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

¹⁸ If a man lies with a woman during her period and uncovers her nakedness, he has laid bare her flow, and she has laid bare her flow of blood; both of them shall be cut off from their people.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

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.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

¹⁸ And if a man shall lie with a woman having her menstrual pains and shall uncover her nakedness, he has made naked her fountain, and she has uncovered the fountain of her blood; and both of them shall be cut off from among their people.

American Standard Version (1901)

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

Common English Bible

¹⁸ If a man sleeps with a woman during her menstrual period and has sexual contact with her, he has exposed the source of her blood flow and she has uncovered the same. Both of them will be cut off from their people.

Catholic Public Domain Version

¹⁸ Whoever has sexual intercourse with a woman in her menstrual flow, and has uncovered her nakedness, and she has opened the fountain of her blood, both shall be destroyed from the midst of their people.

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

¹⁸ If any man lie with a woman in her flowers, and uncover her nakedness, and she open the fountain of her blood: both shall be destroyed out of the midst of their people.

Leviticus 20:18 Cross References

Exodus 30:33

Whoever blends any like it or whoever puts any of it on an unqualified person shall be cut off from the people.”

Ezekiel 18:6

if he does not eat upon the mountains or lift up his eyes to the idols of the house of Israel, does not defile his neighbor’s wife or approach a woman during her menstrual period,

Ezekiel 22:10

In you they uncover their fathers’ nakedness; in you they violate women during their menstrual periods.

Leviticus 12:2

“Speak to the Israelites, saying: “If a woman conceives and bears a male child, she shall be unclean seven days; as at the time of her menstruation, she shall be unclean.

Leviticus 15:24

If any man lies with her and her impurity falls on him, he shall be unclean seven days, and every bed on which he lies shall be unclean.

Leviticus 18:19

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