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Female Bodily Discharges

19 “‘When a woman has a discharge[a] and her discharge is blood from her body,[b] she is to be in her menstruation[c] seven days, and anyone who touches her will be unclean until evening. 20 Anything she lies on during her menstruation will be unclean, and anything she sits on will be unclean. 21 Anyone who touches her bed must wash his clothes, bathe in water, and be unclean until evening.

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Footnotes

  1. Leviticus 15:19 tn See the note on Lev 15:2 above.
  2. Leviticus 15:19 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. Leviticus 15:19 tn See the note on Lev 12:2 and R. E. Averbeck, NIDOTTE 1:925-27.