Bodily Discharges From a Woman

Leviticus 15:19–33
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This passage dealing with women (vv. 19-33) is very similar to that dealing with men in the previous passage. It deals with the normal, natural monthly menstrual flow of women. Again, there is no implication here that there is anything morally wrong about this function. But the symbolic significance is the same and in each case the cleansing is done exactly the same - washing, being unclean until evening, and the offering of a sacrifice of blood which would cleanse and thus take away the defilement involved.

When a woman has a monthly period, she remains unclean for seven days (v. 19) and anything or person she touches is also unclean (vv. 20-24). Also any woman who has a flow of blood outside of her monthly period will be unclean until it stops (vv. 25-27). Seven days after the woman gets well, she will be considered clean (v. 28). On the eighth day, she must bring either two doves or two pigeons to the front of the sacred tent and give them to a priest (v. 29). He will offer one of the birds as a sacrifice for sin and the other as a sacrifice to please Him; then He will consider the woman completely clean (v. 30). When any of you are unclean, you must stay away from the rest of the community of Israel. Otherwise, the sacred tent will become unclean, and the whole nation will die (v. 31).

These are the things you men must do if you become unclean because of an infected vessel or have a flow of semen (vv. 32-33). And these are the things you women must do when you become unclean either because of your monthly period or an unusual flow of blood.

Application

Since Jesus death on the cross for my sins I do not receive cleansing for what I do or don’t do physically. All I need to do is confess my sins and He will immediately forgive me and cleanse me (I John 1:9).