Leviticus 15:19

Female Bodily Discharges

15:19 “‘When a woman has a discharge 1  and her discharge is blood from her body, 2  she is to be in her menstruation 3  seven days, and anyone who touches her will be unclean until evening.

Leviticus 15:24

15:24 and if a man actually has sexual intercourse with her so that her menstrual impurity touches him, 4  then he will be unclean seven days and any bed he lies on will be unclean.

1 tn See the note on Lev 15:2 above.

2 tn Heb “blood shall be her discharge in her flesh.” The term “flesh” here refers euphemistically to the female sexual area (cf. the note on v. 2 above).

3 tn See the note on Lev 12:2 and R. E. Averbeck, NIDOTTE 1:925-27.

4 tn Heb “and if a man indeed lies with her and her menstrual impurity is on him.”