What the Bible says about
Menstruation
9 references · Nave's Topical Bible (1896) · tap any verse for study tools
“When a woman has a discharge consisting of blood from her body, she will be unclean due to her menstruation for seven days, and anyone who touches her will be unclean until evening.”— Leviticus 15:19-30 BSB
“If a man lies with a menstruating woman and has sexual relations with her, he has exposed the source of her flow, and she has uncovered the source of her blood. Both of them must be cut off from among their people.”— Leviticus 20:18 BSB
“He does not eat at the mountain or look to the idols of the house of Israel. He does not defile his neighbor’s wife or approach a woman during her period.”— Ezekiel 18:6 BSB
“And Abraham and Sarah were already old and well along in years; Sarah had passed the age of childbearing.”— Genesis 18:11 BSB
“Rachel said to her father, “Sir, do not be angry that I cannot stand up before you; for I am having my period.” So Laban searched, but could not find the household idols.”— Genesis 31:35 BSB
“a wild donkey at home in the wilderness, sniffing the wind in the heat of her desire. Who can restrain her passion? All who seek her need not weary themselves; in mating season they will find her.”— Jeremiah 2:24 BSB
“So you will desecrate your silver-plated idols and your gold-plated images. You will throw them away like menstrual cloths, saying to them, “Be gone!””— Isaiah 30:22 BSB
“Zion stretches out her hands, but there is no one to comfort her. The LORD has decreed against Jacob that his neighbors become his foes. Jerusalem has become an unclean thing among them.”— Lamentations 1:17 BSB