19Also thou shalt not approach unto a woman to uncover her nakedness, as long as she is put apart for her uncleanness.
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And if any man lie with her at all, and her flowers be upon him, he shall be unclean seven days; and all the bed whereon he lieth shall be unclean.
And if a man shall lie with a woman having her sickness, and shall uncover her nakedness; he hath discovered her fountain, and she hath uncovered the fountain of her blood: and both of them shall be cut off from among their people.
In thee have they discovered their fathers' nakedness: in thee have they humbled her that was set apart for pollution.
And hath not eaten upon the mountains, neither hath lifted up his eyes to the idols of the house of Israel, neither hath defiled his neighbour's wife, neither hath come near to a menstruous woman,
And if a woman have an issue, and her issue in her flesh be blood, she shall be put apart seven days: and whosoever toucheth her shall be unclean until the even.
Commentary
Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 19-30)Here is, I. A law to preserve the honour of the marriage-bed, that it should not be unseasonably used (Lev. 18:19), nor invaded by an adulterer, Lev. 18:20. II. A law against that which was the most unnatural idolatry, causing their children to pass through the fire to Moloch , Lev. 18:21. Moloch (as some think) was the idol in and by which they worshipped the sun, that great fire of the world; an…
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