“And if a woman have an issue of her blood many days out of the time of her separation, or if it run beyond the time of her separation; all the days of the issue of her uncleanness shall be as the days of her separation: she shall be unclean.”
When a woman has a discharge of blood for many days at a time other than her monthly period or has a discharge that continues beyond her period, she will be unclean as long as she has the discharge, just as in the days of her period. The unusual female discharge — the flow of blood that continues beyond the regular period or occurs at other times — creates the extended impurity of the pathological condition. The Mark 5:25–34 narrative records the woman with the issue of blood who had suffered for twelve years: twelve years of the extended impurity of Leviticus 15:25, twelve years of social exclusion, twelve years of reaching for healing. Jesus' healing of the woman with the discharge restores not only her physical health but her full covenant community participation.
COMMUNITY REFLECTIONS
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