John Gill Commentary Leviticus 15:19

"And if a woman have an issue, [and] her issue in her flesh be blood, she shall be in her impurity seven days: and whosoever toucheth her shall be unclean until the even." — Leviticus 15:19 (ASV)

And if a woman have an issue Having finished, as Aben Ezra observes, what was to be said of the male, now the Scripture begins with the female, whose issue, of a different sort, is thus described: [and] her issue in her flesh be blood ; or, "blood be her issue in her flesh"; not in any part of her, but in that which by an euphemism is so called, in the same sense as the phrase is used of men, (Leviticus 15:2) ; and so it distinguishes it from any flow of blood elsewhere, as a bleeding at the nose

she shall be put apart seven days ; not out of the camp, nor out of the house, but might not go into the house of God:

whosoever toucheth her shall be unclean until the even ; the same as one that had touched a man that had an issue, (Leviticus 15:7) ; the pollution of the one reached to the same things as that of the other; and so, in the Misnah ^F8 , they are put together, and the same is ascribed to the touch of the one as of the other; it may be understood of everything as well as of every person.

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FOOTNOTES:

• F8: Zabim, c. 5. sect. 6, 7.