Leviticus 15:19

Context

Female Bodily Discharges

15:19 “‘When a woman has a discharge¹ and her discharge is blood from her body,² she is to be in her menstruation³ seven days, and anyone who touches her will be unclean until evening.

Leviticus 15:24

Context
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.

[15:19] ¹tn See the note on Lev 15:2 above.

[15:19] ²tn 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] ³tn See the note on Lev 12:2 and R. E. Averbeck, NIDOTTE 1:925-27.

[15:24] ⁴tn Heb “and if a man indeed lies with her and her menstrual impurity is on him.”