Leviticus 15:27

27 Whoever toucheth her shall wash his clothes, and he shall be washed in water, and shall be unclean till to eventide.

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 A woman that suffereth in many days the flowing out of blood, not in the time of [the] months, either which woman ceaseth not to flow out blood after the blood of [the] months, shall be unclean as long as she shall be subject to this passion, as if she is in the time of [the] months. (A woman who suffereth for many days the flowing out of blood, but not at the time of the month, or which woman ceaseth not to flow out blood after the blood of the month, shall be unclean for as long as she is subject to this passion, just as she is at the time of the month.)
26 Each bed in which she sleepeth, and whatever thing she sitteth upon, shall be unclean.
27 Whoever toucheth her shall wash his clothes, and he shall be washed in water, and shall be unclean till to eventide.
28 If her blood standeth, and ceaseth to flow out, she shall number seven days of her cleansing, (But when her blood standeth, and ceaseth to flow out, she shall count seven days for her cleansing,)
29 and in the eighth day she shall offer for herself to the priest two turtles, either culver birds, at the door of the tabernacle of witnessing; (and on the eighth day she shall bring her offering of two turtledoves, or two young pigeons, to the priest, at the entrance to the Tabernacle of the Witnessing;)
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