Leviticus 18:19
“‘You must not approach a woman in her menstrual impurity to have sexual relations with her.
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Referenced Verses
- Lev 15:24 : 24 and if a man actually goes to bed with her so that her menstrual impurity touches him, then he will be unclean seven days and any bed he lies on will be unclean.
- Lev 20:18 : 18 If a man goes to bed with a menstruating woman and uncovers her nakedness, he has laid bare her fountain of blood and she has exposed the fountain of her blood, so both of them must be cut off from the midst of their people.
- Ezek 18:6 : 6 does not eat pagan sacrifices on the mountains or pray to the idols of the house of Israel, does not defile his neighbor’s wife, does not approach a woman for marital relations during her period,
- Ezek 22:10 : 10 They have sexual relations with their father’s wife within you; they violate women during their menstrual period within you.
- Lev 15:19 : 19 Female Bodily Discharges“‘When a woman has a discharge and her discharge is blood from her body, she is to be in her menstruation seven days, and anyone who touches her will be unclean until evening.
- Lev 12:2 : 2 “Tell the Israelites,‘When a woman produces offspring and bears a male child, she will be unclean seven days, as she is unclean during the days of her menstruation.
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- Lev 18:6-1813 verses87%
6Laws of Sexual Relations“‘No man is to approach any close relative to have sexual relations with her. I am the LORD.
7You must not expose your father’s nakedness by having sexual relations with your mother. She is your mother; you must not have sexual relations with her.
8You must not have sexual relations with your father’s wife; she is your father’s nakedness.
9You must not have sexual relations with your sister, whether she is your father’s daughter or your mother’s daughter, whether she is born in the same household or born outside it; you must not have sexual relations with either of them.
10You must not expose the nakedness of your son’s daughter or your daughter’s daughter by having sexual relations with them, because they are your own nakedness.
11You must not have sexual relations with the daughter of your father’s wife born of your father; she is your sister. You must not have sexual relations with her.
12You must not have sexual relations with your father’s sister; she is your father’s flesh.
13You must not have sexual relations with your mother’s sister, because she is your mother’s flesh.
14You must not expose the nakedness of your father’s brother; you must not approach his wife to have marital relations with her. She is your aunt.
15You must not have sexual relations with your daughter-in-law; she is your son’s wife. You must not have sexual relations with her.
16You must not have sexual relations with your brother’s wife; she is your brother’s nakedness.
17You must not have sexual relations with both a woman and her daughter; you must not take as wife either her son’s daughter or her daughter’s daughter to have sexual relations with them. They are closely related to her– it is lewdness.
18You must not take a woman in marriage and then marry her sister as a rival wife while she is still alive, to have sexual relations with her.
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20You must not have sexual relations with the wife of your fellow citizen to become unclean with her.
- Lev 20:17-215 verses83%
17“‘If a man has marital relations with his sister, whether the daughter of his father or his mother, so that he sees her nakedness and she sees his nakedness, it is a disgrace. They must be cut off in the sight of the children of their people. He has exposed his sister’s nakedness; he will bear his punishment for iniquity.
18If a man goes to bed with a menstruating woman and uncovers her nakedness, he has laid bare her fountain of blood and she has exposed the fountain of her blood, so both of them must be cut off from the midst of their people.
19You must not expose the nakedness of your mother’s sister and your father’s sister, for such a person has laid bare his own close relative. They must bear their punishment for iniquity.
20If a man goes to bed with his aunt, he has exposed his uncle’s nakedness; they must bear responsibility for their sin, they will die childless.
21If a man has marital relations with his brother’s wife, it is indecency. He has exposed his brother’s nakedness; they will be childless.
- Lev 15:16-249 verses80%
16“‘When a man has a seminal emission, he must bathe his whole body in water and be unclean until evening,
17and he must wash in water any clothing or leather that has semen on it, and it will be unclean until evening.
18As for a woman whom a man goes to bed with, then has a seminal emission, they must bathe in water and be unclean until evening.
19Female Bodily Discharges“‘When a woman has a discharge and her discharge is blood from her body, she is to be in her menstruation seven days, and anyone who touches her will be unclean until evening.
20Anything she lies on during her menstruation will be unclean, and anything she sits on will be unclean.
21Anyone who touches her bed must wash his clothes, bathe in water, and be unclean until evening.
22Anyone who touches any furniture she sits on must wash his clothes, bathe in water, and be unclean until evening.
23If there is something on the bed or on the furniture she sits on, when he touches it he will be unclean until evening,
24and if a man actually goes to bed with her so that her menstrual impurity touches him, then he will be unclean seven days and any bed he lies on will be unclean.
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30(23:1) A man may not marry his father’s former wife and in this way dishonor his father.
- Lev 18:22-243 verses78%
22You must not have sexual relations with a male as one has sexual relations with a woman; it is a detestable act.
23You must not have sexual relations with any animal to become defiled with it, and a woman must not stand before an animal to have sexual relations with it; it is a perversion.
24Warning against the Abominations of the Nations“‘Do not defile yourselves with any of these things, for the nations which I am about to drive out before you have been defiled with all these things.
- Ezek 22:10-112 verses77%
10They have sexual relations with their father’s wife within you; they violate women during their menstrual period within you.
11One commits an abominable act with his neighbor’s wife; another obscenely defiles his daughter-in-law; another violates his sister– his father’s daughter– within you.
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6does not eat pagan sacrifices on the mountains or pray to the idols of the house of Israel, does not defile his neighbor’s wife, does not approach a woman for marital relations during her period,
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13and a man goes to bed with her, for sexual relations, without her husband knowing it, and it is hidden that she has defiled herself, since there was no witness against her, nor was she caught–
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29Do not profane your daughter by making her a prostitute, so that the land does not practice prostitution and become full of lewdness.
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20Lying with a Slave Woman“‘When a man goes to bed with a woman for intercourse, although she is a slave woman designated for another man and she has not yet been ransomed, or freedom has not been granted to her, there will be an obligation to pay compensation. They must not be put to death, because she was not free.
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31Summary of Purification Regulations for Bodily Discharges“‘Thus you are to set the Israelites apart from their impurity so that they do not die in their impurity by defiling my tabernacle which is in their midst.
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27for the people who were in the land before you have done all these abominations, and the land has become unclean.
- Lev 15:26-272 verses75%
26Any bed she lies on all the days of her discharge will be to her like the bed of her menstruation, any furniture she sits on will be unclean like the impurity of her menstruation,
27and anyone who touches them will be unclean, and he must wash his clothes, bathe in water, and be unclean until evening.
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29So it is with the one who sleeps with his neighbor’s wife; no one who touches her will escape punishment.
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26And you must not go up by steps to my altar, so that your nakedness is not exposed.’
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20But if you have gone astray while under your husband’s authority, and if you have defiled yourself and some man other than your husband has had sexual relations with you….”
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15He does not eat pagan sacrifices on the mountains, does not pray to the idols of the house of Israel, does not defile his neighbor’s wife,
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3and his virgin sister who is near to him, who has no husband; he may defile himself for her.
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25“‘They must not come near a dead person or they will be defiled; however, for father, mother, son, daughter, brother or unmarried sister, they may defile themselves.
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33for the one who is sick in her menstruation, for the one with a discharge, whether male or female, and for a man who goes to bed with an unclean woman.’”
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11If a man goes to bed with his father’s wife, he has exposed his father’s nakedness. Both of them must be put to death; their blood guilt is on themselves.