Anything she lies on during her period will be unclean, and anything she sits on will be unclean. The defiled bed and seat of the menstruating woman — parallel to the defiled bed and seat of the man with the unusual discharge (verse 4). The same contact-impurity principle applies to the surfaces that mediate between the menstruating woman's body and the surrounding world. The consistency of the bed-and-seat regulations across the male unusual discharge and the female monthly discharge communicates the systematic character of the bodily discharge regulations.

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