Leviticus 15:18

15:18 When a man has sexual intercourse with a woman and there is a seminal emission, ¹  they must bathe in water and be unclean until evening.

Leviticus 18:18

18:18 You must not take a woman in marriage and then marry her sister as a rival wife ²  while she is still alive, ³  to have sexual intercourse with her.

Leviticus 15:19

Female Bodily Discharges

15:19 “‘When a woman has a discharge ⁴  and her discharge is blood from her body, ⁵  she is to be in her menstruation ⁶  seven days, and anyone who touches her will be unclean until evening.

Leviticus 18:23

18:23 You must not have sexual intercourse ⁷  with any animal to become defiled with it, and a woman must not stand before an animal to have sexual intercourse with it; ⁸  it is a perversion. ⁹ 

Leviticus 20:16

20:16 If a woman approaches any animal to have sexual intercourse with it, ¹⁰  you must kill the woman, and the animal must be put to death; their blood guilt is on themselves.

Leviticus 21:7

21:7 They must not take a wife defiled by prostitution, ¹¹  nor are they to take a wife divorced from her husband, ¹²  for the priest ¹³  is holy to his God. ¹⁴ 

Leviticus 15:25

15:25 “‘When a woman’s discharge of blood flows ¹⁵  many days not at the time of her menstruation, or if it flows beyond the time of her menstruation, ¹⁶  all the days of her discharge of impurity will be like the days of her menstruation – she is unclean.

Leviticus 22:22

22:22 “‘You must not present to the Lord something blind, or with a broken bone, or mutilated, or with a running sore, ¹⁷  or with a festering eruption, or with a feverish rash. ¹⁸  You must not give any of these as a gift ¹⁹  on the altar to the Lord.

[15:18]  ¹ tn Heb “And a woman who a man lies with her a lying of seed.”

[18:18]  ² tn Or “as a concubine”; Heb “And a woman to her sister you shall not take to be a second wife [or “to be a concubine”].” According to HALOT 1059 s.v. III צרר, the infinitive “to be a second wife” (לִצְרֹר, litsror) is a denominative verb from II צָרָה A (“concubine; second wife”), which, in turn, derives from II צר “to treat with hostility” (cf. J. E. Hartley, Leviticus [WBC], 283, and B. A. Levine, Leviticus [JPSTC], 122).

[18:18]  ³ tn Heb “on her in her life.”

[15:19]  ³ tn See the note on Lev 15:2 above.

[15:19]  ⁴ 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).

[15:19]  ⁵ tn See the note on Lev 12:2 and R. E. Averbeck, NIDOTTE 1:925-27.

[18:23]  ⁴ tn See the note on v. 20 above.

[18:23]  ⁵ tn Heb “to copulate with it” (cf. Lev 20:16).

[18:23]  ⁶ tn The Hebrew term תֶּבֶל (tevel, “perversion”) derives from the verb “to mix; to confuse” and therefore refers to illegitimate mixtures of species or violation of the natural order of things.

[20:16]  ⁵ tn Heb “to copulate with it” (cf. Lev 20:16).

[21:7]  ⁶ tn Heb “A wife harlot and profaned they shall not take.” The structure of the verse (e.g., “wife” at the beginning of the two main clauses) suggests that “harlot and profaned” constitutes a hendiadys, meaning “a wife defiled by harlotry” (see the explanation in B. A. Levine, Leviticus [JPSTC], 143, as opposed to that in J. E. Hartley, Leviticus [WBC], 343, 348; cf. v. 14 below). Cf. NASB “a woman who is profaned by harlotry.”

[21:7]  ⁷ sn For a helpful discussion of divorce in general and as it relates to this passage see B. A. Levine, Leviticus (JPSTC), 143-44.

[21:7]  ⁸ tn Heb “he”; the referent (the priest) has been specified in the translation for clarity.

[21:7]  ⁹ tn The pronoun “he” in this clause refers to the priest, not the former husband of the divorced woman.

[15:25]  ⁷ tn Heb “And a woman when the flow of her blood flows.”

[15:25]  ⁸ tn Heb “in not the time of her menstruation or when it flows on her menstruation.”

[22:22]  ⁸ tn Or perhaps “a wart” (cf. NIV; HALOT 383 s.v. יַבֶּלֶת, but see the remarks in J. E. Hartley, Leviticus [WBC], 358).

[22:22]  ⁹ sn See the note on Lev 21:20 above.

[22:22]  ¹⁰ sn This term for offering “gift” is explained in the note on Lev 1:9.