i heard two young ladies discussing it and i ask them to explain it to me and i really didnt understand how they were explaining it to me it, actually i got even more confused.
2006-12-01 08:22:13 · 7 answers · asked by Anonymous in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
Leviticus 15:19
" 'When a woman has her regular flow of blood, the impurity of her monthly period will last seven days, and anyone who touches her will be unclean till evening.
Leviticus 15:25
" 'When a woman has a discharge of blood for many days at a time other than her monthly period or has a discharge that continues beyond her period, she will be unclean as long as she has the discharge, just as in the days of her period.
-Now this is of the Old Covenant remember....This is how it was back then...
2006-12-01 08:27:47 · answer #1 · answered by Mandolyn Monkey Munch 6 · 2⤊ 0⤋
people have already given the verses. the basics of it is that G-d considers blood very unclean. a menstruant woman is called a niddah and it lasts for a week after menstruation is over, during which the husband and wife are not physically intimate, and when the period is done the woman immerses in a mikvah (ritual bath) and physical intimacy can resume.
2006-12-01 16:42:05 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
From 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 unclean until the even.
15:20 And every thing that she lieth upon in her separation shall be unclean: every thing also that she sitteth upon shall be unclean.
15:21 And whosoever toucheth her bed shall wash his clothes, and bathe himself in water, and be unclean until the even.
15:22 And whosoever toucheth any thing that she sat upon shall wash his clothes, and bathe himself in water, and be unclean until the even.
15:23 And if it be on her bed, or on any thing whereon she sitteth, when he toucheth it, he shall be unclean until the even.
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 unclean. Sex with menstruating women
15:25 And if a woman have an issue of her blood many days out of the time of her separation, or if it run beyond the time of her separation; all the days of the issue of her uncleanness shall be as the days of her separation: she shall be unclean.
15:26 Every bed whereon she lieth all the days of her issue shall be unto her as the bed of her separation: and whatsoever she sitteth upon shall be unclean, as the uncleanness of her separation.
15:27 And whosoever toucheth those things shall be unclean, and shall wash his clothes, and bathe himself in water, and be unclean until the even.
15:28 But if she be cleansed of her issue, then she shall number to herself seven days, and after that she shall be clean.
15:29 And on the eighth day she shall take unto her two turtles, or two young pigeons, and bring them unto the priest, to the door of the tabernacle of the congregation.
15:30 And the priest shall offer the one for a sin offering, and the other for a burnt offering; and the priest shall make an atonement for her before the LORD for the issue of her uncleanness.
2006-12-01 16:28:34 · answer #3 · answered by E D 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Basically there are a ton of rules for women on their period and what they can touch and have contact with.
2006-12-01 16:26:03 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
A woman was not to have sex during her menstuation and she was not allowed into the temple during that time either.
2006-12-01 16:25:39 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 4⤊ 0⤋
i haven't read or studied anything on this, and never thought about it, but i will now.
good question.
by the way, i noticed that your first answers are by men, funny, uh!
2006-12-01 16:30:44 · answer #6 · answered by mary s 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
it was necessary then
2006-12-01 16:24:27 · answer #7 · answered by george p 7 · 0⤊ 1⤋