Leviticus 15:19

19 When a woman has her monthly period, she remains unclean for seven days. Anyone who touches her is unclean until evening.

Leviticus 15:19 Meaning and Commentary

Leviticus 15:19

And if a woman have an issue
Having finished, as Aben Ezra observes, what was to be said of the male, now the Scripture begins with the female, whose issue, of a different sort, is thus described: [and] her issue in her flesh be blood;
or, "blood be her issue in her flesh"; not in any part of her, but in that which by an euphemism is so called, in the same sense as the phrase is used of men, ( Leviticus 15:2 ) ; and so it distinguishes it from any flow of blood elsewhere, as a bleeding at the nose she shall be put apart seven days;
not out of the camp, nor out of the house, but might not go into the house of God: whosoever toucheth her shall be unclean until the even;
the same as one that had touched a man that had an issue, ( Leviticus 15:7 ) ; the pollution of the one reached to the same things as that of the other; and so, in the Misnah F8, they are put together, and the same is ascribed to the touch of the one as of the other; it may be understood of everything as well as of every person.


FOOTNOTES:

F8 Zabim, c. 5. sect. 6, 7.

Leviticus 15:19 In-Context

17 Anything made of cloth or leather on which the semen falls must be washed, and it remains unclean until evening.
18 After sexual intercourse both the man and the woman must take a bath, and they remain unclean until evening.
19 When a woman has her monthly period, she remains unclean for seven days. Anyone who touches her is unclean until evening.
20 Anything on which she sits or lies during her monthly period is unclean.
21 Any who touch her bed or anything on which she has sat must wash their clothes and take a bath, and they remain unclean until evening.
Scripture taken from the Good News Translation - Second Edition, Copyright 1992 by American Bible Society. Used by Permission.