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“‘If a man lies with a woman having her monthly period, and uncovers her nakedness, he has made her fountain naked, and she has uncovered the fountain of her blood. Both of them shall be cut off from among their people.
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Verse 18. People, if the action become public; otherwise the man may be purified. Calmet. 15:24. This intemperance was by a positive law declared a mortal offence in the Jews, though in itself it might be venial. Sanchez ix. 21. The text shews that the woman here gives her consent.—And she open. Hence she deserves to die, for exposing herself and her children to great danger. Bible.
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