Exegetical and Hermeneutical Commentary of Leviticus 20:18
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 shall lie with a woman, wittingly and willingly. See on Lev 15:24; 18:19.
Her sisters, i.e. her monthly infirmity. Her fountain, or her issue. Thus the fountain of blood in Mar 5:29, is the issue of blood, Luk 8:44, the fountain put for the stream, the cause for the effect, which is common.
Fuente: English Annotations on the Holy Bible by Matthew Poole
And if a man shall lie with a woman having her sickness,…. Her monthly courses, which make her weak and languid, which is forbidden, Le 18:19; this is not to be understood of a man’s lying with his wife ignorantly, when in such a condition, for this being the case, he was only unclean seven days, Le 15:24; whereas this made him and her liable to cutting off, as in an after clause; but of his lying with her, knowing this to be the case with her, and of which she could not be ignorant, and therefore both liable to the same punishment; or else of any other man lying with her, or of any man lying with any woman, married or unmarried, being in such circumstances:
and shall uncover her nakedness; that is, have carnal knowledge of her:
he hath discovered her fountain; from whence her issue of blood flows: and she hath uncovered the fountain of her blood; freely and willingly, as Aben Ezra observes; for if she had been forced, he alone would have been cut off; but both these phrases put together show agreement in this matter, that they both had knowledge of her case, and both consented to commit the sin:
and both of them shall be cut off from among their people; by death, either by the hand of the civil magistrate, the case being known and proved, or else by the hand of God being known by mortality or the pestilence, as the Targum of Jonathan, or they should die childless;
[See comments on Le 20:17].
Fuente: John Gill’s Exposition of the Entire Bible
Verse 18:
This verse gives the penalty for violating the prohibition of sexual relations during a woman’s menstrual cycle (see comments on Le 18:19). It was excommunication.
Fuente: Garner-Howes Baptist Commentary
Lev 20:18
. And if a man shall lie (84) The enormity of the crime is seen by the severity of the punishment; and surely, when a man and woman abandon themselves to so disgraceful an act, it is plain that there are no remains of modesty in them. God, therefore, does not only regard the offense itself, but the brutal impulse of lust, whereby men are so carried away as to degenerate from the very feelings of nature. For what wickedness would he abstain from who yields to such impurity, that he breaks through an obstacle in his fury which restrains the brutes themselves? Let us not wonder, then, that God is a severe avenger of such obscenity.
This precept (85) has no other tendency than that believers should be kept far from all filthiness, and that chastity may flourish among them. It is indeed true that a woman, under these circumstances, is withheld from connection with a man by the very foulness of the disease, whilst there is also danger of contagion; but God rather chooses here to be an instructor in decency to His people, than to perform the office of a physician. It must be remembered, therefore, that men are warned against all indelicacy, which is abhorrent to the natural sense; and, by synecdoche, married persons are exhorted to restrain themselves from all immodest lasciviousness, and that the husband should enjoy his wife’s embraces with delicacy and propriety.
(84) This passage considered further on in Fr. , under the head of “Political Supplements.”
(85) This commentary is, in Fr. , appended to Lev 18:19, and included previously under the General Supplements of the Commandment.
Fuente: Calvin’s Complete Commentary
(18) Having her sickness.See Lev. 15:24; Lev. 18:19.
Fuente: Ellicott’s Commentary for English Readers (Old and New Testaments)
18. With a woman having her sickness Since the Hebrew has but one term for woman and wife, this precept, with its dreadful penalty of extermination, must apply to conjugal intercourse during menstruation. This offence against purity is accounted among the crying sins of Israel, ranking with idol-worship, adultery, and violation of a father’s wife.
Eze 18:6; Eze 22:10.
Both shall be cut off They shall both be put to death, though in this case the man is chiefly guilty. Any less stringent safeguard of the wife’s health might have been ineffectual. It is difficult for modern moralists to adjust their ethical notions to all the requirements of the ceremonial law.
Fuente: Whedon’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments
Lev 20:18 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.
Ver. 18-20. See on Lev 18:1-30 .
Fuente: John Trapp’s Complete Commentary (Old and New Testaments)
sickness. See Lev 15:24; Lev 18:19.
Fuente: Companion Bible Notes, Appendices and Graphics
having: Lev 15:24, Lev 18:19, Eze 18:6, Eze 22:10
discovered: Heb. made naked
Reciprocal: Lev 15:19 – and her issue Lev 15:33 – and of him Lev 17:4 – be cut off Mar 5:29 – fountain