Leviticus 18:19

Also 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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Word by word — the Hebrew

Word	Hebrew	Strong’s	Meaning
approach	תִקְרַ֔ב tik.Rav	H7126	to approach (causatively · verb, qal imperfect, 2nd person masculine singular
woman	אִשָּׁ֖ה 'i.Shah	H802	a woman · noun, common feminine singular absolute
uncover	לְגַלּ֖וֹת le.ga.Lot	H1540	to denude (especially in a disgraceful sense) · preposition + verb, piel infinitive construct
nakedness	עֶרְוָתָֽהּ 'er.va.Tah	H6172	nudity · noun, common feminine singular construct + pronominal suffix, 3rd person feminine singular
apart	בְּנִדַּ֣ת be.ni.Dat	H5079	properly · preposition + noun, common feminine singular construct
uncleanness	טֻמְאָתָ֑הּ tum.'a.Tah	H2932	religious impurity · noun, common feminine singular construct + pronominal suffix, 3rd person feminine singular

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Cross-references

Leviticus 15:24 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 u…
Leviticus 20:18 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 unco…
Ezekiel 22:10 In thee have they discovered their fathers’ nakedness: in thee have they humbled her that was set apart for pollution.
Leviticus 15:19 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 un…
Ezekiel 18:6 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 neighbo…
Leviticus 12:2 Speak unto the children of Israel, saying, If a woman have conceived seed, and born a man child: then she shall be unclean seven days; accor…

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Commentary

Matthew Henry on Leviticus 18:19–end

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; and therefore in the worship of it they made their own children either sacrifices to this idol, burning them to death before it, or devotees to it, causing them to pass between two fires, as some think, or to be thrown through one, to the honour of this pretended deity, imagining that the consecrating of…

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Jamieson-Fausset-Brown on Leviticus 18:18

Neither shalt thou take a wife to her sister, to vex her--The original is rendered in the Margin, "neither shalt thou take one wife to another to vex her," and two different and opposite interpretations have been put upon this passage. The marginal construction involves an express prohibition of polygamy; and, indeed, there can be no doubt that the practice of having more wives than one is directly contrary to the divine will. It was prohibited by the original law of marriage, and no evidence of its lawfulness under the Levitical code can be discovered, although Moses--from "the hardness of their hearts" [Mat 19:8; Mar 10:5] --tolerated it in the people of a rude and early age. The second in…

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Adam Clarke on Leviticus 18:19

As long as she is put apart - See Clarke's note on Lev 15:24.

John Gill on Leviticus 18:19

Also thou shall not approach unto a woman,.... Not even a man to his own wife, and much less to another woman: to uncover her nakedness, as long as she is put apart for her uncleanness; in her monthly courses; and the time of her separation from her husband on that account was seven days, Leviticus 15:19; if a man lay with a woman when in such circumstances, they were both to be cut off from their people, Leviticus 20:18; and such an action is reckoned among sins, and uncleanness of the worst sort, Ezekiel 22:10.

The Church Fathers

You will not approach a woman in separation from her impurity to discover her nakedness. That is, you will not approach a woman during menstruation. The woman, in fact, was separated, according to the law, because of her impurity. What does it mean that here too we wanted to add this with the same precepts with which it was banned (Cf Lv 15,19-27) already enough, above? As this was said before, so as not to believe that it had to be taken figuratively, has he also put it here, where these things are forbidden, that, once the observation of the ancient shadows has been abolished, to observe them also without doubt in the time of the New Testament? The Scripture seems to have indicated this also through the prophet Ezekiel, who also mentions the sin of approaching a woman during menstruation between sins that are clearly of iniquity, not symbols of something. And among the merits of justice the prophet does not approach such a woman (Cf Ez 18,6; 22,10). In this matter, nature is not condemned, but rather the danger that can arise for the conception of offspring.
— Augustine of Hippo, QUESTIONS ON LEVITICUS, Q. 64 (tr. J. Litteral, draft)

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Dictionary and topics

Copulation · During menses — During menses

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Leviticus 18:19

Word by word — the Hebrew

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Commentary

Matthew Henry on Leviticus 18:19–end

Jamieson-Fausset-Brown on Leviticus 18:18

Adam Clarke on Leviticus 18:19

John Gill on Leviticus 18:19

The Church Fathers

Dictionary and topics

Leviticus 18:19

Word by word — the Hebrew

Cross-references

Commentary

Matthew Henry on Leviticus 18:19–end

Jamieson-Fausset-Brown on Leviticus 18:18

Adam Clarke on Leviticus 18:19

John Gill on Leviticus 18:19

The Church Fathers

Dictionary and topics

John Calvin on Leviticus 18:19

Keil & Delitzsch on Leviticus 18:19-23

Tyndale Open Study Notes on Leviticus 18:18

Rashi on Leviticus 18:18