If it is on the bed, or on anything she sits on, when he touches it, he shall be unclean until the evening.
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If it is on the bed, or on anything she sits on, when he touches it, he shall be unclean until the evening.
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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.
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And if he be on the bed, or on any thing whereon she sitteth, when he toucheth it, he shall be unclean until the even.
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John Gill 1763 · Public Domain And if any man lie with her at all,....…
And if any man lie with her at all,.... Not presumptuously but ignorantly, as Aben Ezra observes; for he was guilty of cutting off, that lay with her wilfully, Lev 20:18,
and her flowers be upon her; or, "her separation" (k), her monthly courses not being ceased:
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he shall be unclean seven days; and be excluded from all conversation civil and religious:
and all the bed whereon she lieth shall be unclean; that and every thing upon it; and this uncleanness also lasted seven days, as Aben Ezra notes, and defiled others, though it is not written.
(k) "menstruum ejus", Pagninus, Montanus; "separatio ejus", Drusius.
John Gill's Exposition of the Whole Bible (1746–1763) — public domain (CC PDM 1.0). Text via the HelloAO Bible API.
Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers 1878 · Public Domain (23) And if it be on her bed.—Better, and…
(23) And if it be on her bed.—Better, and if any object be on her bed, that is, if anything happen to lie on her bed.
When he toucheth it.—Rather, if he toucheth it. Whilst the former two verses declare that if any one touches the bed itself, or the thing on which she sat, he contracts such a degree of defilement that he must wash his clothes, bathe his whole body, and remain in a state of pollution till sundown, the verse before us enacts that if he happens to touch any vessel, garment, or any other objects which are lying on the defiling bed or seat in question, he has only to remain unclean till sundown, without having to wash his garments. The defilement in this case is not primary, but secondary. It is no more the bed or seat which defiled by direct contact, but an object which the defiled bed or seat had defiled, the pollution in this case being indirect.
A Bible Commentary for English Readers, edited by Charles John Ellicott (1878–1897) — public domain. Text from a community e-Sword module.