OLD TESTAMENT

Leviticus 15:19

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“‘If a woman has a discharge, and her discharge in her flesh is blood, she shall be in her impurity seven days. Whoever touches her shall be unclean until the evening.

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Verse 19. At … month. The Hebrew and other versions omit this. Calmet.—But “her issue in her flesh,” implies as much. Bible.—Naturalists anciently deemed this very contagious. Solin c. i. Plin. ix. 15. Calmet.—Days, not out of the camp, but from the company of men.

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