Leviticus - 15:28



28 "'But if she is cleansed of her discharge, then she shall count to herself seven days, and after that she shall be clean.

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Explanation and meaning of Leviticus 15:28.

Differing Translations

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But if she be cleansed of her issue, then she shall number to herself seven days, and after that she shall be clean.
If the blood stop and cease to run, she shall count seven days of her purification:
And if she be cleansed of her flux then she shall count seven days, and after that she shall be clean.
'And if she hath been clean from her issue, then she hath numbered to herself seven days, and afterwards she is clean;
But when her flow of blood is stopped, after seven days she will be clean.
If the blood has stopped and has ceased to flow, she shall number seven days for her purification,
Quod si mundata fuerit a fluxu suo, tunc numerabit sibi septem dies, et postea mundabitur.

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Historical Commentaries

Scholarly Analysis and Interpretation.

But if she be cleansed of her issue, then she shall (k) number to herself seven days, and after that she shall be clean.
(k) After the time that she is recovered.

But if she be cleansed of her issue,.... The disease is healed, or a stop is put to it; there are no signs of it remaining:
then she shall number to herself seven days; from the time she observed it to cease:
and after that she shall be clean; having bathed herself according to the usual manner of unclean persons, for their cleansing; when she would be fit to be admitted to her husband, though not as yet into the tabernacle, until she had offered her offering next directed to.

After the issue had ceased, she was to purify herself like the man with an issue, as described in Leviticus 15:13-15. - Obedience to these commands is urged in Leviticus 15:31 : "Cause that the children of Israel free themselves from their uncleanness, that they die not through their uncleanness, by defiling My dwelling in the midst of them." הזּיר, Hiphil, to cause that a person keeps aloof from anything, or loosens himself from it, from נזר, Niphal to separate one's self, signifies here deliverance from the state of uncleanness, purification from it. Continuance in it was followed by death, not merely in the particular instance in which an unclean man ventured to enter the sanctuary, but as a general fact, because uncleanness as irreconcilable with the calling of Israel to be a holy nation, in the midst of which Jehovah the Holy One had His dwelling-place (Leviticus 11:44), and continuance in uncleanness without the prescribed purification was a disregard of the holiness of Jehovah, and involved rebellion against Him and His ordinances of grace.

Seven days - From the stopping of her issue. And this was for trial, whether it was only a temporary obstruction, or a real cessation.

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