Leviticus 15:19-31

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

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Leviticus 15:25

And if a woman have an issue of her blood many days out of the time of her separation ,.... Not an ordinary but an extraordinary one, not within that time, but out of it, and which continued three days at least; so the Targum of Jonathan, and sometimes many years; as the poor woman Christ cured, which she had had twelve years; see Gill on Matthew 9:20 , or if it run beyond the time of her separation ; beyond the seven days of her separation, and so out of the usual way and time of it;... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Leviticus 15:26

Every bed whereon she lieth all the days of her issue shall be unto her as the bed of her separation ,.... As defiled and as defiling as that, Leviticus 15:20 , and whatsoever she sitteth upon shall be unclean, as the uncleanness of her separation ; as such were when she was in that condition, see Leviticus 15:20 . read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Leviticus 15:27

And whosoever toucheth those things shall be unclean ,.... Her bed and seat; the Septuagint version is, "that toucheth her", see Leviticus 15:19 , and shall wash his clothes, and bathe himself in water, and be unclean until the even ; let it be observed, that in all the above passages, where it is said, "he shall bathe himself in water", the Targum of Jonathan adds, in forty seahs or pecks of water; for this was done by dipping the body all over. read more

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