Leviticus 15:23

Jerome's Latin Vulgate

Omne vas, super quo illa sederit, quisquis attigerit, lavabit vestimenta sua: et ipse lotus aqua, pollutus erit usque ad vesperum.

Parallel Translations

Clementine Latin Vulgate (1592)
Et venerunt in Mara, nec poterant bibere aquas de Mara, eo quod essent amaræ : unde et congruum loco nomen imposuit, vocans illum Mara, id est, amaritudinem.

Nova Vulgata (1979)
Et quicumque tetigerit omne, quod fuerit super lectum vel supellectilem, in qua illa sederit, immundus erit usque ad vesperum.

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Gill's Notes on the Bible

And if it [be] on [her] bed, or on anything whereon she sitteth,.... That is, if any person or thing should be upon her bed or seat; a vessel on her bed, or a vessel upon a vessel, as Aben Ezra expresses it:

when he toucheth it; that person or thing that should be on her bed or seat, as well as touch her bed or seat:

shall be unclean until the even; in a ceremonial sense; so defiling was a woman in such circumstances, and to whom the Scriptures often compare unclean persons and things: and Pliny i speaks of menstrues as very infectious, or worse, to various creatures and things, in a natural way.

i Nat. Hist. l. 7. c. 15.