11 Bible Verses about Menstruation

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Leviticus 15:19-23

When a woman has her monthly period, she will be unclean for seven days. Those who touch her will be unclean until evening. Everything she lies on or sits on during her period will be unclean. Those who touch her bed must wash their clothes and their bodies. They will be unclean until evening.read more.
Those who touch anything she sits on must wash their clothes and their bodies. They will be unclean until evening. If her blood touches anything on the bed or anything she sits on, it will be unclean until evening.

Leviticus 12:1-5

Jehovah spoke to Moses: Tell the Israelites: 'When a woman gives birth to a boy, she will be unclean for seven days. This is the same number of days she is unclean for her monthly period. The boy must be circumcised when he is eight days old.read more.
She must stay at home for thirty-three days in order to be made clean from her bleeding. She must not touch anything holy or go into the holy place until the days needed to make her clean are over. When a woman gives birth to a girl, she will be unclean as in her monthly period. She will be unclean for two weeks. Then she must stay at home for sixty-six days in order to be made clean from her bleeding.

Leviticus 15:25-30

When a woman has a discharge of blood for many days other than her monthly period, she is unclean. If her period lasts longer than usual, she will be unclean as long as she has a discharge. It is similar to her period. As long as she has a discharge, any bed she lies on or anything she sits on is unclean. It is similar to her period. Those who touch these things are unclean and must wash their clothes and their bodies. They will be unclean until evening.read more.
When her discharge stops she must wait seven days. After that she will be clean. She must take two mourning doves or two pigeons on the eighth day and bring them to the priest at the entrance to the Tent of Meeting. The priest will offer one as an offering for sin and the other as a burnt offering. So in Jehovah's presence the priest will pay compensation for wrongdoing and make peace with Jehovah for the woman who had an unclean discharge.'

Isaiah 30:22

Then you will dishonor your silver-plated idols and your gold-covered statues. You will throw them away like clothing ruined by stains. You will say to them: Get out!

Ezekiel 18:5-6

If a man is righteous and practices justice and righteousness, and does not eat at the mountain shrines or lift up his eyes to the idols of the house of Israel, or defile his neighbor's wife or approach a woman during her menstrual period;

Ezekiel 22:10

Some of them sleep with their father's wife. Some force women to have intercourse with them during their period.

Leviticus 20:18

If a man has intercourse with a woman during her monthly period, both of them are to be driven out of the community, because they have broken the regulations about ritual uncleanness.

Genesis 31:35

Rachel said to her father: Do not be angry, Father, but I cannot get up to greet you. I am having my period. So even though Laban had made a thorough search, he did not find the idols.

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Hemorrhage » Menstruation

Matthew 9:20

A woman who had a hemorrhage (chronic flow of blood) for twelve years came behind him. She touched the border of his garment.

Luke 8:43

There was a woman having an issue of blood twelve years. She spent all her money on physicians, and could not be healed by any.

Leviticus 15:19

When a woman has her monthly period, she will be unclean for seven days. Those who touch her will be unclean until evening.

Menstruation » Figurative

Isaiah 30:22

Then you will dishonor your silver-plated idols and your gold-covered statues. You will throw them away like clothing ruined by stains. You will say to them: Get out!

Lamentations 1:17

Zion's hands are outstretched. She has no comforter. Jehovah gave orders to the attackers of Jacob round about him: Jerusalem is an unclean (abhorrent) thing among them.

Ezekiel 36:17

Son of man, when the people of Israel lived in their land, they dishonored it by the way they lived and by everything they did. Their ways were as unclean as a woman's menstrual period.

Menstruation » Law relating to

Ezekiel 18:6

and does not eat at the mountain shrines or lift up his eyes to the idols of the house of Israel, or defile his neighbor's wife or approach a woman during her menstrual period;

Leviticus 15:19-30

When a woman has her monthly period, she will be unclean for seven days. Those who touch her will be unclean until evening. Everything she lies on or sits on during her period will be unclean. Those who touch her bed must wash their clothes and their bodies. They will be unclean until evening. read more.
Those who touch anything she sits on must wash their clothes and their bodies. They will be unclean until evening. If her blood touches anything on the bed or anything she sits on, it will be unclean until evening. If a man has sexual intercourse with her while she has her period, he will be unclean for seven days. Any bed he lies on will become unclean. When a woman has a discharge of blood for many days other than her monthly period, she is unclean. If her period lasts longer than usual, she will be unclean as long as she has a discharge. It is similar to her period. As long as she has a discharge, any bed she lies on or anything she sits on is unclean. It is similar to her period. Those who touch these things are unclean and must wash their clothes and their bodies. They will be unclean until evening. When her discharge stops she must wait seven days. After that she will be clean. She must take two mourning doves or two pigeons on the eighth day and bring them to the priest at the entrance to the Tent of Meeting. The priest will offer one as an offering for sin and the other as a burnt offering. So in Jehovah's presence the priest will pay compensation for wrongdoing and make peace with Jehovah for the woman who had an unclean discharge.'

Leviticus 20:18

If a man has intercourse with a woman during her monthly period, both of them are to be driven out of the community, because they have broken the regulations about ritual uncleanness.

Menstruation » Uncleanness of

Isaiah 30:22

Then you will dishonor your silver-plated idols and your gold-covered statues. You will throw them away like clothing ruined by stains. You will say to them: Get out!

Menstruation » Immunities of women during

Genesis 31:35

Rachel said to her father: Do not be angry, Father, but I cannot get up to greet you. I am having my period. So even though Laban had made a thorough search, he did not find the idols.

Menstruation » Of animals

Jeremiah 2:24

You are like a wild donkey accustomed to the desert. You sniff at the wind while in heat. All who seek you will not get tired. They will find you during your monthly period.

Menstruation » Cessation

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