²⁴男人 若与那女人同房 ，染了他的污秽 ，就要七 天 不洁净 ；所躺的 床 也为不洁净 。

²⁴And if any man lie with her at all, and her flowers be upon him, he shall be unclean seven days; and all the bed whereon he lieth shall be unclean.

²⁴ Verse 24. The common sense of all mankind has led them to

avoid the gross impropriety referred to in this verse; and it

has been a general opinion, that off-spring obtained in this way

has been infected with leprous, scrofulous, and other deeply

radicated diseases, from which they and their posterity have

been scarcely ever freed. In Le 20:18, persons guilty of

this are condemned to death; here only to a seven days'

separation; because, in the former case, Moses speaks of the act

when both the man and woman were acquainted with the situation:

in the latter, he speaks of a case where the circumstance was

not known till afterwards; at least, so it appears these two

places should be understood, so as to be reconciled.