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Leviticus 15:28
When a woman is cleansed of her discharge, she must count off seven days, and after that she will be ceremonially clean.
Berean Standard Bible
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Study note
Setting — The text addresses the Israelites regarding ritual purity laws, specifically instructing a woman on the procedure to follow after her discharge ceases. This directive sits between warnings about contaminating others who touch unclean items and the requirement for an eighth-day bird offering.
The words — טָהֲרָ֖ה (taharah) = she has become pure; תִּטְהָֽר (titahar) = she will be pure. The verb shifts from a completed state of purification to a future declaration of ceremonial status.
The thread — The seven-day counting period mirrors the parallel instruction for a man cleansed from discharge in Leviticus 15:13. The procedure immediately precedes the eighth-day presentation of two turtledoves or pigeons in Leviticus 15:29.
Why it lands — The text establishes a fixed timeline between the cessation of impurity and the restoration of ritual status. It requires the reader to note that ceremonial cleanliness is granted only after a complete waiting period and specific priestly action.
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The Hebrew words
King James Version
But if she be cleansed of her issue, then she shall number to herself seven days, and after that she shall be clean.
Cross-references
- Leviticus 15:13 When the man has been cleansed from his discharge, he must count off seven days for his cleansing, wash his clothes, and bathe himself in fresh water, and he shall be clean.
- Matthew 1:21 She will give birth to a Son, and you are to give Him the name Jesus, because He will save His people from their sins.”
- 1 Corinthians 1:30 It is because of Him that you are in Christ Jesus, who has become for us wisdom from God: our righteousness, holiness, and redemption.
- 1 Corinthians 6:11 And that is what some of you were. But you were washed, you were sanctified, you were justified, in the name of the Lord Jesus Christ and by the Spirit of our God.
- Galatians 3:13 Christ redeemed us from the curse of the law by becoming a curse for us. For it is written: “Cursed is everyone who is hung on a tree.”
- Galatians 4:4 But when the time had fully come, God sent His Son, born of a woman, born under the law,
- Ephesians 1:6 to the praise of His glorious grace, which He has freely given us in the Beloved One.