And if any man lie with her at all,.... Not presumptuously but ignorantly, as Aben Ezra observes; for he was guilty of cutting off, that lay with her wilfully, Le 20:18;and her flowers be upon her; or, "her separation" , her monthly courses not being ceased:he shall be unclean seven days; and be excluded from all conversation civil and religious:and all the bed whereon she lieth shall be unclean; that and every thing upon it; and this uncleanness also lasted seven days, as Aben Ezra notes, and defiled others, though it is not written.
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Leviticus 15:24
Leviticus 15:24
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