Translation: ESV
The LORD spoke to Moses and Aaron, saying,
God's holiness encompasses even the most intimate functions of the human body.
▸Leviticus 15 addresses purity regulations concerning bodily discharges.
Leviticus 15 addresses purity regulations concerning bodily discharges. It covers discharges for both men and women, dealing with the principle that discharges from the human body bring about ritual impurity.
"Speak to the people of Israel and say to them, When any man has a discharge from his body, his discharge is unclean.
Discharges from the human body symbolize a moving away from God's life-force, and restoration is possible through purification rituals.
▸Abnormal male discharge (such as urethral secretions) causes ritual impurity.
"When a woman has a discharge, and the discharge in her body is blood, she shall be in her menstrual impurity for seven days, and whoever touches her shall be unclean until the evening.
Jesus brought healing rather than condemnation to those who were ritually unclean by the law.
▸This is the regulation concerning ritual impurity during a woman's menstrual period.
"Thus you shall keep the people of Israel separate from their uncleanness, lest they die in their uncleanness by defiling my tabernacle that is in their midst."
The ultimate purpose of the purity regulations is to protect God's holy presence and allow safe approach to that presence.
▸The purpose of all of Leviticus 15 is revealed here.