18And 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.
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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.
Also thou shalt not approach unto a woman to uncover her nakedness, as long as she is put apart for her uncleanness.
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,
In thee have they discovered their fathers' nakedness: in thee have they humbled her that was set apart for pollution.
Commentary
Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 10-21)Sins against the seventh commandment are here ordered to be severely punished. These are sins which, of all others, fools are most apt to make a mock at; but God would teach those the heinousness of the guilt by the extremity of the punishment that would not otherwise be taught it. I. Lying with another man’s wife was made a capital crime. The adulterer and the adulteress that had joined in the si…
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