“And whosoever toucheth her bed shall wash his clothes, and bathe himself in water, and be unclean until the even.”
Anyone who touches her bed will be unclean; they must wash their clothes and bathe with water, and they will be unclean till evening. The contact-impurity for touching the menstruating woman's defiled bed: cloth-washing, bathing, until-evening impurity. The graduated response is the same as for touching the man with the unusual discharge's defiled bed (verse 5). The consistency of the purification requirements across the male and female discharge regulations communicates the systematic character of the Levitical impurity framework.
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