Leviticus 15:27

27 And any person who touches them becomes unclean, and he shall wash his garments, and he shall wash [himself] with water, and he shall be unclean until the evening.

Leviticus 15:27 Meaning and Commentary

Leviticus 15:27

And whosoever toucheth those things shall be unclean
Her bed and seat; the Septuagint version is, "that toucheth her", see ( Leviticus 15:19 ) ; and shall wash his clothes, and bathe [himself] in water, and be
unclean until the even;
let it be observed, that in all the above passages, where it is said, "he shall bathe [himself] in water", the Targum of Jonathan adds, in forty seahs or pecks of water; for this was done by dipping the body all over.

Leviticus 15:27 In-Context

25 " 'And when a woman discharges a body fluid [consisting] of her blood [for] many days, [but] not [at] the time of her menstruation, or when she discharges in addition to her menstruation, all the days of her unclean body fluid discharge she shall become unclean as [in] the days of her menstruation.

26 Any bed on which she lies [during] all the days of her body fluid discharge shall become for her as her bed of menstruation, and any object on which she sits becomes unclean as her menstruation's uncleanness.

27 And any person who touches them becomes unclean, and he shall wash his garments, and he shall wash [himself] with water, and he shall be unclean until the evening.

28 " 'And if she is clean from her body fluid discharge, then she shall count for herself seven days, and afterward she becomes clean.

29 And on the eighth day she shall take for herself two turtledoves or two {young doves}, and she shall bring them to the priest at [the] tent of assembly's entrance.

Footnotes

• [a]. The direct object is supplied from context in the English translation