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.
KJV
Hebrew original
Louis Segond 1910
Si un homme couche avec une femme qui a son indisposition, et découvre sa nudité, s'il découvre son flux, et qu'elle découvre le flux de son sang, ils seront tous deux retranchés du milieu de leur peuple.
KJV
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.
Philo Judaeus
De Fuga Et Inventione
πηγὴν αὐτῆς ἀπεκάλυψε, καὶ αὕτη ἀπεκάλυψε τὴν ῥύσιν τοῦ αἵματος αὐτῆς· ἐξολοθρευθήτωσαν ἀμφότεροι“ (Lev. 20,18)· γυναῖκα τὴν αἴσθησιν καλεῖ, νοῦν ἄνδρα αὐτῆς ὑποτιθέμενος. ἀποκάθηται δὲ αἴσθησις, ὅπερ ἐστὶν ἀπωτάτω καθέζεται, ὅταν νοῦν ἀπολιποῦσα, τὸν γνήσιον ἄνδρα, ἐφιδρύηται το…
Thomas Aquinas
Summa Theologica
at a menstruous wife may not pay the marriage debt to her husband at his asking. For it is written ( Lev. 20:18 ) that if any man approach to a menstruous woman both shall be put to death. Therefore it would seem that both he who asks and she who grants are guilty of mortal sin.…
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