Leviticus 15:19

When a woman menstruates, her impurity will continue for seven days, and whoever touches her will be unclean until evening.

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In The King James Version

And if a woman have an issue, and her issue in her flesh be blood, she shall be put apart seven days: and whosoever toucheth her shall be unclean until the even.

In Context

18If a woman and a man sleep together and there is a transfer of semen to her, they must both bathe themselves in water; they will be unclean until evening.

20Everything she lies on during her period will be unclean; everything that she sits on will also be unclean.

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Cross References

Leviticus 12:4Then the mother's purification from her bleeding will continue for thirty-three days. She must not touch any holy thing or come into the tabernacle area until the days of her purification are finished.

Leviticus 22:5or whoever touches any creeping animal that makes him unclean, or any person who makes him unclean, whatever kind of uncleanness it may be—

Lamentations 1:17Zion has spread her hands wide; there is none to comfort her. 1 Yahweh has commanded that those around Jacob should be his adversaries. 1 Jerusalem is something unclean to them. 1

Matthew 15:19For from the heart proceed evil thoughts, murder, adultery, sexual immorality, theft, false witness, and slander.

Matthew Henry on Leviticus 15:2-19

Ceremonial Purification. ( b. c. 1490.) 1 And the Lord spake unto Moses and to Aaron, saying, 2 Speak unto the children of Israel, and say unto them, When any man hath a running issue out of his flesh, because of his issue he is unclean. 3 And this shall be his uncleanness in his issue: whether his flesh run with his issue, or his flesh be stopped from his issue, it is his uncleanness. 4 Every bed, whereon he lieth that hath the issue, is unclean: and every thing, whereon he sitteth, shall be unclean. 5 And… Read the whole commentary →

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