Leviticus 15:19-31

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Leviticus 15:28

But if she be cleansed of her issue ,.... The disease is healed, or a stop is put to it; there are no signs of it remaining: then she shall number to herself seven days ; from the time she observed it to cease: and after that she shall be clean ; having bathed herself according to the usual manner of unclean persons, for their cleansing; when she would be fit to be admitted to her husband, though not as yet into the tabernacle, until she had offered her offering next directed to. read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Leviticus 15:29

And on the eighth day ,.... From the cessation of her issue, and the healing of it, at least from the time she began to number for her cleansing: she shall take unto her two turtles, or two young pigeons ; the same as the man that had an issue was obliged to bring. Now this is to be understood not of a woman that had an ordinary issue, or her monthly courses; for this would have been both troublesome and expensive to have brought every month, but of a woman that had laboured under an... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Leviticus 15:30

And the priest shall offer the one for a sin offering ,.... As in the case of a man that had an issue, the offerings of one and the other were the same and for the same purpose; See Gill on Leviticus 15:15 ; there being a legal uncleanness in their case, atonement must be made by sacrifice, typical of the atonement of Christ, who by himself has purged our sins. The design of these several laws concerning uncleanness by issues, was to set forth the filthiness of sin arising from the... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Leviticus 15:31

Thus shall ye separate the children of Israel from their uncleanness ,.... Or because of it, and while they are in it, as from other persons, even their nearest relations, and from the house of God, as the next clause shows; or teach them, by observing the above laws and rules, to separate themselves, and that they be careful and cautions to keep themselves apart while in such impurities; and the children of Israel are only made mention of, because these laws are only binding upon them, with... 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

Adam Clarke

Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible - Leviticus 15:29

Two turtles, or two young pigeons - In all these cases moral pollution was ever considered as being less or more present, as even such infirmities sprang from the original defection of man. On these accounts sacrifices must be offered; and in the case of the woman, one of the birds above mentioned must be sacrificed as a sin-offering, the other as a burnt-offering, Leviticus 15:30 . read more

Adam Clarke

Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible - Leviticus 15:31

Thus shall ye separate the children of Israel from their uncleanness - By this separation the cause became less frequent, and the contagion, if it did exist, was prevented from spreading. So pest-houses and fever-wards are constructed for the purpose of separating the infected from the sound; and thus contagion is lessened, and its diffusion prevented. That they die not - That life may be prolonged by these prudential cares; and that he who is morally and legally unclean, may not presume... 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

Spence, H. D. M., etc.

The Pulpit Commentary - Leviticus 15:1-33

Spence, H. D. M., etc.

The Pulpit Commentary - Leviticus 15:1-33

Secret sins. cf. Psalms 19:12 ; 1 Timothy 1:13 . We have already had occasion to discern as a clear lesson of the old ritual that sin is a nature. The old law did not confine itself to overt acts, but insisted on "sins of ignorance" being regarded as elements of guilt (cf. 1 Timothy 4:1-16 .). Then again we have sin shown to originate in birth (chapter 12); we have its tangible effects strikingly illustrated in the law of the leprosy (chapters 13, 14); and now we have the analysis... read more

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