Menstrual Discharges

​Menstrual Discharges

(The Lord instructed Moses to tell the people…)

“Whenever a woman has her menstrual period, she will be ceremonially unclean, for seven days. 

Anyone who touches her, during that time, will be unclean, until that evening. Anything, on which the woman lies or sits, during the time of her period, will be unclean. 

If any of you touch her bed, you must wash your clothes and bathe yourself in water, and you will remain unclean until evening. 

If you touch any object, which she has sat on, you must wash your clothes and bathe yourself, in water, and you will remain unclean, until evening. 

This includes her bed or any other object, which she has sat on; you will be unclean, until evening, if you touch it. 

If a man has sexual intercourse with her, and her blood touches him, her menstrual impurity will be transmitted to him. 

He will remain unclean for seven days, and any bed, on which he lies, will be unclean. 

“If a woman has a flow of blood, for many days, that is unrelated to her menstrual period, or if the blood continues, beyond the normal period, she is ceremonially unclean. 

As during her menstrual period, the woman will be unclean, as long as the discharge continues. 

Any bed she lies on, and any object she sits on, during that time, will be unclean, just as during her normal menstrual period. 

If any of you touch these things, you will be ceremonially unclean. 

You must wash your clothes and bathe yourself, in water, and you will remain unclean until evening. 

“When the woman’s bleeding stops, she must count off seven days. 

Then, she will be ceremonially clean. 

On the eighth day, she must bring two turtledoves or two young pigeons, and present them, to the priest, at the entrance of the Tabernacle. 

The priest will offer one, for a sin offering, and the other, for a burnt offering. Through this process, the priest will purify her, before the Lord, for the ceremonial impurity, caused by her bleeding. 

“This is how you will guard the people of Israel, from ceremonial uncleanness. Otherwise, they would die, for their impurity would defile my Tabernacle, which  stands among them. 

These (have been) the instructions, for dealing with anyone, who has a bodily discharge — a man who is unclean, because of an emission of semen …or a woman, during her menstrual period. 

The instructions apply to any man or woman, who has a bodily discharge, and to a man who has sexual intercourse, with a woman,  who is ceremonially unclean.” 

Leviticus 15:19–33 (NLT)

Praise be to God!


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