Leviticus 15:19

19 "When a woman has a discharge of blood, the impurity of her menstrual period lasts seven days. Anyone who touches her is unclean until evening.

Leviticus 15:19 Meaning and Commentary

Leviticus 15:19

And if a woman have an issue
Having finished, as Aben Ezra observes, what was to be said of the male, now the Scripture begins with the female, whose issue, of a different sort, is thus described: [and] her issue in her flesh be blood;
or, "blood be her issue in her flesh"; not in any part of her, but in that which by an euphemism is so called, in the same sense as the phrase is used of men, ( Leviticus 15:2 ) ; and so it distinguishes it from any flow of blood elsewhere, as a bleeding at the nose she shall be put apart seven days;
not out of the camp, nor out of the house, but might not go into the house of God: whosoever toucheth her shall be unclean until the even;
the same as one that had touched a man that had an issue, ( Leviticus 15:7 ) ; the pollution of the one reached to the same things as that of the other; and so, in the Misnah ^F8, they are put together, and the same is ascribed to the touch of the one as of the other; it may be understood of everything as well as of every person.

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FOOTNOTES:

F8 Zabim, c. 5. sect. 6, 7.

Leviticus 15:19 In-Context

17 Every piece of clothing and everything made of leather which gets semen on it must be washed with water; it remains unclean until evening.

18 When a man sleeps with a woman and has an emission of semen, both are to wash in water; they remain unclean until evening.

19 "When a woman has a discharge of blood, the impurity of her menstrual period lasts seven days. Anyone who touches her is unclean until evening.

20 Everything on which she lies or sits during her period is unclean.

21 Anyone who touches her bed or anything on which she sits must wash his clothes and bathe in water; he remains unclean until evening.