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Matthew Henry

Matthew Henry's Complete Commentary - Leviticus 15:19-33

This is concerning the ceremonial uncleanness which women lay under from their issues, both those that were regular and healthful, and according to the course of nature (Lev. 15:19-24), and those that were unseasonable, excessive, and the disease of the body; such was the bloody issue of that poor woman who was suddenly cured by touching the hem of Christ's garment, after she had lain twelve years under her distemper, and had spent her estate upon physicians and physic in vain. This made the... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible 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... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Leviticus 15:20

And everything that she lieth upon in her separation shall be unclean ,.... During her being apart from her husband, with whom she might be, and do all offices for him, but not lie with him; and whatsoever she lay upon during this time, bed or couch, and the clothes upon them, were unclean: everything also that she sitteth upon shall be unclean ; chair, stool, &c.; as is the case of a man, Leviticus 15:4 . read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Leviticus 15:21

And whosoever toucheth her bed ,.... The same thing that is said of a profluvious man, and so in Leviticus 15:22 . read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Leviticus 15:22

And whosoever toucheth anything that she sat upon ,.... Which was appropriated to her to sit upon, as the Targum of Jonathan, which was her proper and peculiar seat, what she usually sat upon; such were obliged to wash their clothes and bathe, as in all the above cases. See Leviticus 15:5 . read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Leviticus 15:23

And if it be on her bed, or on anything whereon she sitteth ,.... That is, if any person or thing should be upon her bed or seat; a vessel on her bed, or a vessel upon a vessel, as Aben Ezra expresses it: when he toucheth it ; that person or thing that should be on her bed or seat, as well as touch her bed or seat: shall be unclean until the even ; in a ceremonial sense; so defiling was a woman in such circumstances, and to whom the Scriptures often compare unclean persons and... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Leviticus 15:24

And if any man lie with her at all ,.... Not presumptuously but ignorantly, as Aben Ezra observes; for he was guilty of cutting off, that lay with her wilfully, Leviticus 20:18 , and her flowers be upon her ; or, "her separation" F11 נדתה "menstruum ejus", Pagninus, Montanus; "separatio ejus", Drusius. , her monthly courses not being ceased: he shall be unclean seven days ; and be excluded from all conversation civil and religious: and all the bed whereon she lieth shall... read more

Adam Clarke

Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible - Leviticus 15:24

The common sense of all mankind has led them to avoid the gross impropriety referred to in this verse - and it has been a general opinion, that off-spring obtained in this way has been infected with leprous, scrofulous, and other deeply radicated diseases, from which they and their posterity have been scarcely ever freed. In Leviticus 20:18 , persons guilty of this are condemned to death; here only to a seven days' separation; because, in the former case, Moses speaks of the act when both... read more

John Calvin

John Calvin's Commentary on the Bible - Leviticus 15:19

Verse 19 19.And if a woman have an issue. Women are now spoken of who suffer under a twofold issue of blood; for with almost all it occurs every month, (whence it is called menses, or menstruation,) and some labor under a constant hemorrhage. He declares both to be unclean; and, after menstruation, a certain period of separation is appointed, during which the law prohibited their cohabitation with men; but, if the blood flowed beyond the usual time, the time of purification is postponed until... read more

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