menstruation

¹⁸Whoever has sexual intercourse with a woman in her menstrual flow, and has uncovered her nakedness, and she has opened the fountain of her blood, both shall be destroyed from the midst of their people.

¹⁹The woman who, at the return of the month, undergoes the flow of blood shall be separated for seven days. ²⁰All who will touch her shall be unclean until evening. ²¹And everything on which she sleeps or sits, in the days of her separation, shall be polluted. ²²Whoever will have touched her bed shall wash his clothes, and having washed himself with water, he shall be unclean until evening. ²³Anyone who will have touched any item on which she has sat shall wash his clothes, and having washed himself with water, he shall be polluted until evening. ²⁴If a man has sexual intercourse with her in the time of her monthly flow of blood, he shall be unclean for seven days, and every bed on which he sleeps shall be polluted.

²⁴If a man has sexual intercourse with her in the time of her monthly flow of blood, he shall be unclean for seven days, and every bed on which he sleeps shall be polluted.

¹⁷“Son of man, the house of Israel lived on their own soil, and they defiled it with their ways and with their intentions. Their way, in my sight, became like the uncleanness of a menstruous woman.

⁶and if he does not eat upon the mountains, nor lift up his eyes to the idols of the house of Israel, and if he has not violated the wife of his neighbor, nor approached a menstruating woman,

¹⁹You shall not approach a woman who is undergoing menstruation, nor shall you uncover her foulness.

¹⁹The woman who, at the return of the month, undergoes the flow of blood shall be separated for seven days.

¹⁹The woman who, at the return of the month, undergoes the flow of blood shall be separated for seven days. ²⁰All who will touch her shall be unclean until evening. ²¹And everything on which she sleeps or sits, in the days of her separation, shall be polluted. ²²Whoever will have touched her bed shall wash his clothes, and having washed himself with water, he shall be unclean until evening. ²³Anyone who will have touched any item on which she has sat shall wash his clothes, and having washed himself with water, he shall be polluted until evening. ²⁴If a man has sexual intercourse with her in the time of her monthly flow of blood, he shall be unclean for seven days, and every bed on which he sleeps shall be polluted.

¹⁰They have uncovered the nakedness of their father within you. They have debased the uncleanness of the menstruous woman within you.

³⁵she said: “Do not be angry, my lord, that I am unable to rise up in your sight, because it has now happened to me according to the custom of women.” So his careful search was thwarted.

⁶And we have all become like the unclean. And all our justices are like a rag of menstruation. And we have all fallen away, like a leaf. And our iniquities have carried us away, like the wind.

¹¹Now they were both old, and in an advanced state of life, and it had ceased to be with Sarah after the manner of women.

¹And the Lord spoke to Moses and Aaron, saying: ²Speak to the sons of Israel, and say to them: The man who undergoes a flow of seed shall be unclean. ³And then he shall be judged subject to this fault, if a filthy fluid, at each moment, adheres to his flesh and gathers there. ⁴Every bed on which he sleeps shall be unclean, and every place where he sits. ⁵If any man has touched his couch, he shall wash his clothes, and having washed with water, he shall be unclean until evening. ⁶If he will have sat where that man has sat, he shall also wash his clothes, and having washed with water, he shall be unclean until evening.

¹⁷PHE. Zion has reached out her hands; there is no one to console her. The Lord has given orders against Jacob; his enemies are all around him. Jerusalem among them is like a woman made unclean by menstruation.

²Speak to the sons of Israel, and you shall say to them: A woman, if she has received the seed to bear a male, shall be unclean for seven days, just as in the days of separation due to menstruation.

⁴³And there was a certain woman, with a flow of blood for twelve years, who had paid out all her substance on physicians, and she was unable to be cured by any of them. ⁴⁴She approached him from behind, and she touched the hem of his garment. And at once the flow of her blood stopped. ⁴⁵And Jesus said, “Who is it that touched me?” But as everyone was denying it, Peter, and those who were with him, said: “Teacher, the crowd hems you in and presses upon you, and yet you say, ‘Who touched me?’ ” ⁴⁶And Jesus said: “Someone has touched me. For I know that power has gone out from me.”