Leviticus 15:23

23 If discharge is on the bed or the furniture she was sitting on, when he touches it he will be unclean until evening.

Leviticus 15:23 Meaning and Commentary

Leviticus 15:23

And if it [be] on [her] bed, or on anything whereon she
sitteth
That is, if any person or thing should be upon her bed or seat; a vessel on her bed, or a vessel upon a vessel, as Aben Ezra expresses it: when he toucheth it;
that person or thing that should be on her bed or seat, as well as touch her bed or seat: shall be unclean until the even;
in a ceremonial sense; so defiling was a woman in such circumstances, and to whom the Scriptures often compare unclean persons and things: and Pliny ^F9 speaks of menstrues as very infectious, or worse, to various creatures and things, in a natural way.

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FOOTNOTES:

F9 Nat. Hist. l. 7. c. 15.

Leviticus 15:23 In-Context

21 Everyone who touches her bed is to wash his clothes and bathe with water, and he will remain unclean until evening.

22 Everyone who touches any furniture she was sitting on is to wash his clothes and bathe with water, and he will remain unclean until evening.

23 If discharge is on the bed or the furniture she was sitting on, when he touches it he will be unclean until evening.

24 If a man sleeps with her, and [blood from] her menstruation gets on him, he will be unclean for seven days, and every bed he lies on will become unclean.

25 "When a woman has a discharge of her blood for many days, though it is not the time of her menstruation, or if she has a discharge beyond her period, she will be unclean all the days of her unclean discharge, as [she is] during the days of her menstruation.