Leviticus 15:25-33

DISEASED ISSUE FROM A WOMAN 15:25-33
TEXT 15:25-33

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And if a woman have an issue of her blood many days not in the time of her impurity, or if she have an issue beyond the time of her impurity; all the days of the issue of her uncleanness she shall be as in the days of her impurity: she is unclean.

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Every bed whereon she lieth all the days of her issue shall be unto her as the bed of her impurity: and everything whereon she sitteth shall be unclean, as the uncleanness of her impurity.

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And whosoever toucheth those things shall be unclean, and shall wash his clothes, and bath himself in water, and be unclean until the even.

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But if she be cleansed of her issue, then she shall number to herself seven days, and after that she shall be clean.

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And on the eighth day she shall take unto her two turtle-doves, or two young pigeons, and bring them unto the priest, to the door of the tent of meeting.

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And the priest shall offer the one for a sin-offering, and the other for a burnt-offering; and the priest shall make atonement for her before Jehovah for the issue of her uncleanness.

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Thus shall ye separate the children of Israel from their uncleanness, that they die not in their uncleanness, when they defile my tabernacle that is in the midst of them.

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This is the law of him that hath an issue, and of him whose seed of copulation goeth from him, so that he is unclean thereby;

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and of her that is sick with her impurity, and of him that hath an issue, of the man, and of the woman, and of him that lieth with her that is unclean.

THOUGHT QUESTIONS 15:25-33

328.

Read Matthew 9:20 for a woman who had the problem here described.

329.

How was healing to be effected in the days of Mosesor is there any thought of such here? Discuss.

PARAPHRASE 15:25-33

If the menstrual flow continues after the normal time, or at some irregular time during the month, the same rules apply as indicated above, so that anything she lies upon during that time is defiled, just as it would be during her normal menstrual period, and everything she sits on is in a similar state of defilement. Anyone touching her bed or anything she sits on shall be defiled, and shall wash his clothes and bathe and be defiled until evening. Seven days after the menstruating stops, she is no longer ceremonially defiled. On the eighth day, she shall take two turtle-doves or two young pigeons and bring them to the priest at the entrance of the Tabernacle, and the priest shall offer one for a sin offering and the other for a burnt offering, and make atonement for her before the Lord, for her menstrual defilement. In this way you shall cleanse the people of Israel from their defilement, lest they die because of defiling My Tabernacle that is among them. This, then, is the law for the man who is defiled by a genital disease or by a seminal emission; and for a woman's menstrual period; and for anyone who has sexual intercourse with her while she is in her period of defilement afterwards.

COMMENT 15:25-33

Leviticus 15:25-33 Diseased issue from a woman.If an issue of blood in a woman flowed many days away from (not in) the time of her monthly uncleanness, or if it flowed beyond her monthly uncleanness, she was to be unclean as long as her unclean issue continued, just as in the days of her monthly uncleanness, and she defiled her couch as well as everything upon which she sat, as in the other case, also every one who touched either her or these things.Leviticus 15:28-30. After the issue had ceased, she was to purify herself like the man with an issue, as described in Leviticus 15:13-15.Obedience to these commands is urged in Leviticus 15:31: Cause that the children of Israel free themselves from their uncleanness, that they die not through their uncleanness, by defiling My dwelling in the midst of them. Hiphil, to cause that a person keeps aloof from anything, or loosens himself from it, from Niphal to separate one's self, signifies here deliverance from the state of uncleanness, purification from it. Continuance in it was followed by death, not merely in the particular instance in which an unclean man ventured to enter the sanctuary, but as a general fact, because uncleanness was irreconcilable with the calling of Israel to be a holy nation, in the midst of which Jehovah the Holy One had His dwelling-place (chapter Leviticus 11:44), and continuance in uncleanness without the prescribed purification was a disregard of the holiness of Jehovah, and involved rebellion against Him and His ordinances of grace.Leviticus 15:32-33. Concluding formula. The words, him that lieth with her that is unclean, are more general than the expression, lie with her, in Leviticus 15:24, and involve not only intercourse with an unclean woman, but lying by her side upon one and the same bed.

FACT QUESTIONS 15:25-33

352.

Why mention this possible contingency as related to an issue of blood?

353.

Was it really very important that these regulations be observed? Discuss. 354, What one permanent moral lesson could we learn from this chapter?