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Leviticus 15:28-33·~1 min

The Cleansing of Women

After her discharge stops, the woman counts seven days and is then clean, and on the eighth day she brings two birds to the priest. The priest offers them before the LORD to make atonement for her.

W28hen a woman is cleansed of her discharge, she must count off seven days, and after that she will be ceremonially clean. 29On the eighth day she is to take two turtledoves or two young pigeons and bring them to the priest at the entrance to the Tent of Meeting. 30The priest is to sacrifice one as a sin offering and the other as a burnt offering. In this way the priest will make atonement for her before the LORD for her unclean discharge.

These laws keep Israel separate from uncleanness so the tabernacle is not defiled and death does not follow. The chapter then gathers men with discharges, emissions of semen, menstruation, prolonged discharge, and intercourse with an unclean woman into one stated law.

31You must keep the children of Israel separate from their uncleanness, so that they do not die by defiling My tabernacle, which is among them. 32This is the law of him who has a discharge, of the man who has an emission of semen whereby he is unclean, 33of a woman in her menstrual period, of any male or female who has a discharge, and of a man who lies with an unclean woman.’”

Section summaryWhen a woman's discharge ends, her cleansing follows the same pattern of waiting, then offering before the LORD. The chapter closes by saying these laws keep Israel from defiling the tabernacle, gathering all the cases under one final summary.
Role in the chapterThis closing section resolves the laws for women and then draws the whole chapter together. It makes clear that these bodily regulations serve the larger purpose of protecting holy space where God dwells among Israel.