Matthew Poole and continuators on Leviticus 15:19
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Leviticus15:19
19 And if a woman have an issue, and her issue in her flesh be blood , she shall be put apart seven dayes : and whosoever toucheth her, shall be unclean until the even.
Heb. And a woman when she shall have an issue of blood, (and because that might be at her nose or other parts, he addes) and her issue shall be in her flesh, i. e. in her secret parts, as the word flesh, is taken ver. 2. So it notes her monethly disease.
Not out of the camp, as the lepers and some others, but from converse with her▪ husband and others, and from access to the house of God.
For sometimes it continues so long, and it was but decent to allow some time for purification after the ceasing of her issue.
To wit, of grown persons. For the infant, to whom in that case she might give suck, was exempted from this pollution by the greater law of necessity, and by that antecedent law which required women to give suck to their own children.
Marginal references: chap. 12. [illegible: 1+ letters].; Heb. in her separation.
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