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NASB | Ezekiel 36:17 "Son of man, when the house of Israel was living in their own land, they defiled it by their ways and their deeds; their way before Me was like the uncleanness of a woman in her impurity. |
AMPLIFIED 2015 | Ezekiel 36:17 "Son of man, when the house of Israel was living in their own land, they defiled it by their [own] behavior and by their [idolatrous] actions. Their conduct before Me was like the uncleanness of a woman during her [physical] impurity. |
Bible Question: Why were women unclean during there physical impurity if God created them this way? Does it have something to do with eve? |
Bible Answer: Leviticus chapter 15 deals with the cleansing and impurity of woman and man. What reading I have done on the matter, the unclean status serves two purposes (besides the simple fact God said so). 1) Until a discharge was proven not to be an illness, both man and woman was consider unclean. This protected the people from the spread of disease 2) The unclean state protected the woman from an over (trying to think the politically correct way of saying it) zealous husband during a time that she was not at her best. Here is part of what Matthew Henry Commentary states: This is concerning the ceremonial uncleanness which women lay under from their issues, both those that were regular and healthful, and according to the course of nature (Lev. 15:19-24), and those that were unseasonable, excessive, and the disease of the body; such was the bloody issue of that poor woman who was suddenly cured by touching the hem of Christ’s garment, after she had lain twelve years under her distemper, and had spent her estate upon physicians and physic in vain. This made the woman that was afflicted with it unclean (Lev. 15:25) and every thing she touched unclean, Lev. 15:26, 27. And if she was cured, and found by seven days’ trial that she was perfectly free from her issue of blood, she was to be cleansed by the offering of two turtle-doves or two young pigeons, to make an atonement for her, Lev. 15:28, 29. All wicked courses, particularly idolatries, are compared to the uncleanness of a removed woman (Ezek. 36:17), and, in allusion to this, it is said of Jerusalem (Lam. 1:9), Her filthiness is in her skirts, so that (as it follows, Lev. 15:17) she was shunned as a menstruous woman. MHC on Ezekiel 36:17 God’s glory had been injured by the sin of Israel when they were in their own land, Ezek. 36:17. It was a good land, a holy land, a land that had the eye of God upon it. But they defiled it by their own way, their wicked way; that is our own way, the way of our own choice; and we ourselves must bear the blame and shame of it. The sin of a people defiles their land, renders it abominable to God and uncomfortable to themselves; so that they cannot have any holy communion with him nor with one another. What was unclean might not be made use of. By the abuse of the gifts of God’s bounty to us we forfeit the use of them; and, the mind and conscience being defiled with guilt, no comfort is allowed us, nothing is pure to us. Their way in the eye of God was like the pollution of a woman during the days of her separation, which shut her out from the sanctuary and made very things she touched ceremonially unclean, Lev. 15:19. Sin is that abominable thing which the Lord hates, and which he cannot endure to look upon. Brad |
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