◄ Leviticus 18:19 ►
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Good News Translation
Do not have intercourse with a woman during her monthly period, because she is ritually unclean.

New Revised Standard Version
You shall not approach a woman to uncover her nakedness while she is in her menstrual uncleanness.

Contemporary English Version
When a woman is having her monthly period, she is unclean, so don't have sex with her.

New American Bible
You shall not approach a woman to have intercourse with her while she is in her menstrual uncleanness.

Douay-Rheims Bible
Thou shalt not approach to a woman having her flowers: neither shalt thou uncover her nakedness.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Thou shalt not approach to a woman having her flowers: neither shalt thou uncover her nakedness.

Leviticus 15:19,24 The woman, who at the return of the month, hath her issue of blood, shall be separated seven days. . . .

Leviticus 20:18 If any man lie with a woman in her flowers, and uncover her nakedness, and she open the fountain of her blood: both shall be destroyed out of the midst of their people.

Ezekiel 18:6 And hath not eaten upon the mountains, nor lifted up his eyes to the idols of the house of Israel: and hath not defiled his neighbour's wife, nor come near to a menstruous woman:

Ezekiel 22:10 They have discovered the nakedness of their father in thee, they have humbled the uncleanness of the menstruous woman in thee.

Context
Unlawful Sexual Relations
…18Thou shalt not take thy wife's sister for a harlot, to rival her: neither shalt thou discover her nakedness, while she is yet living. 19Thou shalt not approach to a woman having her flowers: neither shalt thou uncover her nakedness.20Thou shalt not lie with thy neighbour's wife: nor be defiled with mingling of seed.…
Cross References
Leviticus 12:2
Speak to the children of Israel, and thou shalt say to them: If a woman having received seed shall bear a man child, she shall be unclean seven days, according to the days of separation of her flowers.

Leviticus 15:24
If a man copulateth with her in the time of her flowers, he shall be unclean seven days: and every bed on which he shall sleep, shall be defiled.

Leviticus 18:18
Thou shalt not take thy wife's sister for a harlot, to rival her: neither shalt thou discover her nakedness, while she is yet living.

Leviticus 20:18
If any man lie with a woman in her flowers, and uncover her nakedness, and she open the fountain of her blood: both shall be destroyed out of the midst of their people.

2 Samuel 11:4
And David sent messengers, and took her, and she came in to him, and he slept with her: and presently she was purified from her uncleanness:

Ezekiel 22:10
They have discovered the nakedness of their father in thee, they have humbled the uncleanness of the menstruous woman in thee.

Leviticus 18:18
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