“And if a man shall lie with a woman having her sickness, and shall uncover her nakedness; he hath discovered her fountain, and she hath uncovered the fountain of her blood: and both of them shall be cut off from among their people.”
If a man has sexual relations with a woman during her monthly period, he has exposed the source of her flow, and she has also uncovered it. Both of them are to be cut off from their people. The cut off penalty for intentional sex during the menstrual period — the more severe response to what Leviticus 15:24 treated as inadvertent — communicates that the deliberate violation of the menstrual purity regulations is a covenant-level offense. The bilateral cut off applies to both parties: both the man who violates the regulation and the woman who permits the violation share the consequence.
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