Leviticus 15:19-33

19 " 'And when a woman {is menstruating}, her body fluid discharge occurs in her body; for seven days she shall be in her menstruation, and any person who touches her shall become unclean until the evening.
20 And anything upon which she lies down during her menstruation shall become unclean, and anything upon which she sits shall become unclean.
21 And any person who touches her bed must wash his garments, and he shall wash [himself] with water, and he shall be unclean until the evening.
22 And any person who touches any object on which she sat must wash his garments, and he shall wash [himself] with water, and he shall be unclean until the evening.
23 And if it [is] on the bed or on the object on which she sits, at his touching it he becomes unclean until the evening.
24 And if a man indeed lies with her and her menstruation occurs on him, then he shall be unclean [for] seven days, and any bed on which he lies down becomes unclean.
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.
30 And the priest shall {sacrifice} the one [as] a sin offering and the {other} [as] a burnt offering, and so the priest shall make atonement for her {before} Yahweh from her unclean body fluid discharge.'
31 "And you shall keep the {Israelites} separate from their uncleanness so that they might not die because of their uncleanness by their making my tabernacle, which [is] in their midst, unclean.
32 "This [is] the regulation of [the one with] the body fluid discharge and [the one] from whom an emission of semen goes out so that he becomes unclean by it
33 and {concerning} the menstruating [woman] in her bleeding and the person who discharges his body fluid, for the male and for the female and for a man who lies with an unclean woman."

Leviticus 15:19-33 Meaning and Commentary

INTRODUCTION TO LEVITICUS 15

This chapter treats of uncleanness by issues in men and women; in men, a running issue, Le 15:1-3, which defiles him, and everything he touches, or that touches him or them, Le 15:4-12; the cleansing from which is directed to, Le 15:13-15; and seed flowing from him, Le 15:16-18; in women, their ordinary courses, Le 15:19-24; or extraordinary ones, Le 15:25-27; and the law for the cleansing of them, Le 15:28-31; and a recapitulation of the whole, Le 15:32,33.

Footnotes 16

  • [a]. Literally "is discharging blood"
  • [b]. Or "from"
  • [c]. The direct object is supplied from context in the English translation
  • [d]. The direct object is supplied from context in the English translation
  • [e]. Or "and"
  • [f]. Or "beyond"
  • [g]. The direct object is supplied from context in the English translation
  • [h]. Or "and"
  • [i]. Literally "sons of dove"
  • [j]. Literally "do" or "make"
  • [k]. Literally "one"
  • [l]. Literally "the the faces of"
  • [m]. Literally "sons/children of Israel"
  • [n]. Or "by" or "in"
  • [o]. Literally "of"
  • [p]. See similar idiom at 12:2
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