Leviticus 15:19
Hebrew Bible
18 As for a woman whom a man goes to bed with, then has a seminal emission, they must bathe in water and be unclean until evening. 19 “‘When a woman has a discharge and her discharge is blood from her body, she is to be in her menstruation seven days, and anyone who touches her will be unclean until evening. 20 Anything she lies on during her menstruation will be unclean, and anything she sits on will be unclean.
Date: 5th Century B.C.E. (Final composition) (based on scholarly estimates)
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1 Enoch 10:11
Pseudepigrapha
10 And no request made by their fathers on their behalf will be granted; for they hope to live an eternal life, and each one of them thinks he will live five hundred years.' 11 And the Lord said to Michael: 'Go, bind Semjâzâ and his companions who have joined with women and defiled themselves with them in all their uncleanness. 12 And when their sons have killed each other, and they have seen the destruction of their loved ones, bind them fast for seventy generations in the valleys of the earth, until the day of their judgment and their ultimate end, until the judgment that lasts forever is completed.
Date: 200-50 B.C.E. (based on scholarly estimates)
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Notes and References
"... The description of the sin of Shemihazah and his companions is partly a reiteration of 7:1 and 9:8. Lacking here, however, is reference to their revelatory activity, a motif secondary to the original Shemihazah story. Conversely, the watchers’ defilement here is due not to sexual intercourse per se, but to contact with the women’s blood. Compare with the parallel pattern in 12:4 and 15:3-4. The reference to “uncleanness” here is perhaps to be related to the same term in verese 20, 22, where it is the earth that is unclean and defiled ..."
Nickelsburg, George W. E.
A Commentary on the Book of 1 Enoch Chapters 1-36, 81-108
(p. 225) Fortress Press, 2001
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